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Planning a lighting controls upgrade
Building Operating Management
Achieving the goals of a lighting upgrade requires a solid understanding of the way in which the facility and current lighting control system are used. In addition, facility managers starting an upgrade will want to be familiar with the advances in lighting control technology that have occurred over the past few years.
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Minimizing water waste, maximizing savings
FacilitiesNet
New plumbing products and systems have come a long way in performance and water conservation in recent years. Unfortunately, restrooms in many institutional and commercial facilities continue to use outdated and inefficient plumbing fixtures, valves, toilets and faucets that contribute to water waste and drive up utility costs.
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Landscaping RFP bid metrics
By Kevin Smith
 When issuing a request for proposal for a service trade like snow removal or landscaping, there is a tremendous amount of energy spent on the scope of work, as this becomes the benchmark for how pricing will be derived from your bidders. Once created, you decide on a pricing model — per service or seasonal — and then typically an RFP is issued. But there is something missing. What are your bidders bidding on?
Sustainability: new year, new LEED
FacilitiesNet
LEED v4 is officially out, and the new suite includes an updated version of the LEED for Existing Buildings: Operations and Maintenance (LEED-EBOM) rating system. As expected, the thresholds of performance have increased across the board for energy and water use, material related waste, pollution reduction, and improved indoor environmental quality.
Lobbies boast designs, amenities to urge guests to hang out
The Washington Post
If you were to wax metaphoric about lobbies, you might say that they're the living rooms of hotels. But what if your living rooms aren't, well, lived in? Now, though, hotels are taking a page out of everything from frat houses to wine bars and art museums to transform their lobbies into destinations designed to attract both guests and non-guests for extended periods of time.
Peek inside the world's most expensive hotel rooms
CNN
While super-premium suites are nothing new, it used to be that they were a one-off. These days, luxury hotel are clamoring to turn over space (and a lot of it) for these ultra-luxury abodes.
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Radisson to launch hotel for millennials
The Wall Street Journal
The Radisson is creating a youth-oriented hotel brand, making its parent company, Carlson Rezidor Hotel Group, the latest entrant in a scramble to attract the millennial traveler. The new brand, known as Radisson Red, will open its first location next year and plans to be operating 60 hotels around the globe by 2020, Carlson Rezidor executives say.
Minimum wage hike urged for Los Angeles hotel workers
Reuters
Three Los Angeles City Council members have launched a bid to nearly double the minimum wage for hotel workers in the U.S.'s second-largest metropolis to $15.37 an hour, among the highest rates proposed for any of the country's private-sector workers. The "living wage" proposal would apply to about 11,000 workers at hotels in Los Angeles with more than 100 rooms, helping to lift employees out of poverty and spur the city economy, supporters of the proposal said.
US judge dismisses price-fixing claim against hotels, websites
Reuters
A group of major U.S. hotel chains and online travel companies won the dismissal of an antitrust lawsuit accusing them of an industry-wide conspiracy to fix the online prices of hotel rooms. U.S. District Judge Jane Boyle in Dallas found that the lawsuit, brought by consumers who claimed they paid inflated prices for their rooms, failed to adequately show that such a conspiracy existed.
Can solar energy compete with fossil fuels?
By Stefanie Heerwig
Taking more than four years to build and costing $2.5 billion, the Invanpah solar plant opened recently in California. The world's biggest solar plant is estimated to produce as much electricity as a coal- or natural-gas-fired power plant. And with tough renewable portfolio standards like in California, more of these plants are here to come. According to the Edison Electric Institute, such utility-sized solar plants will soon appear across the United States with 232 under construction, in testing or to be granted with permits. One question, however, remains: Can solar compete with fossil fuels in terms of price?
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