This message was sent to ##Email## To advertise in this publication please click here March 9, 2021 Marriott International to create the Arne M. Sorenson Hospitality Fund to support the design of a world class hospitality program and curriculum Marriott International via Hospitality Net The J. Willard and Alice S. Marriott Foundation together with Howard University announced today the establishment of the Marriott-Sorenson Center for Hospitality Leadership in honor of Marriott International's beloved president and CEO, Arne Sorenson, who tragically passed away last week from pancreatic cancer. The J. Willard and Alice S. Marriott Foundation will provide a $20 million endowment to launch the Center at Howard University, one of the nation's leading historically Black colleges and universities.  READ MORE Intellihot saves money, time, space We didn’t set out to create a better water heater. But as robotics engineers, we knew a worthy challenge when we saw it. LEARN MORE Pandemic creates challenges for boilers, water heaters FacilitiesNet The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of building infrastructure and its ability to help people stay healthy during the pandemic. Soon after COVID-19 erupted, maintenance and engineering managers started hearing questions from occupants and the general public about their HVAC systems they likely had never heard before.  READ MORE Maintenance for an existing building's envelope — Sustainable considerations for cost-effective retrofits FMLink Mother Nature can be difficult to counter when it comes to maintaining an existing building's aesthetics, performance, and sustainability. Most facilities eventually fall victim to the increasingly rigorous maintenance needed to support outdated (or nonfunctional) equipment and systems and uphold the building's original design intent. Given the reality that costs to operate and maintain a facility accrue at exponential rates over the years, allocating scarce resources towards the building's envelope may offer the best protection from these growing expenses, including increasing energy costs.  READ MORE Report: Senior housing construction recovery likely to be slower than most commercial real estate sectors McKnight's Senior Living After weathering an extremely volatile year, 2021 is expected to bring more stability to the construction industry, but recovery within senior housing is likely to take longer than other sectors as a result of the pandemic's lingering effects on the sector, according to the latest construction outlook report published by JLL. In addition, both construction labor and material markets have experienced shortages that are driving prices higher — which is likely to increase the costs of new construction and renovation projects within the sector for the time being.  READ MORE COVID-19 decontamination: How to harness UV-C light to disinfect facilities FacilitiesNet Difficult challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic have been the order of the day in 2020. However, current circumstances are spurring the innovation of therapies and techniques that are changing global approaches to many fields, including the decontamination of the built environment. As is often the case with transformative technologies, building blocks that have been available for decades are being assembled in inventive ways to create tools uniquely suited to fight the spread of the coronavirus.  READ MORE Marriott to pay hotel employees for getting COVID-19 vaccines Bloomberg Marriott International Inc., the world’s largest lodging company, is offering a financial incentive to hotel workers who receive Covid-19 vaccines. The company will provide the equivalent of four hours pay to employees at hotels it manages in the U.S. and Canada once the workers have completed the vaccination course, according to a statement Thursday.  READ MORE IAQ gets an upgrade during COVID-19 Buildings Before COVID-19, indoor air quality in office buildings was an important, but generally downplayed issue. It was well-documented that air quality contributes to germ proliferation, and that purer air facilitates clearer thinking and higher productivity.  READ MORE COVID-19 spurs need for specific building solutions Building Design & Construction As the coronavirus stubbornly persists in many parts of the U.S., COVID-19-specific buildings and products have been popping up in response. Last January, Medline Industries, the largest privately held manufacturer and distributor of medical supplies in the U.S., started making face masks for the first time from a modified plant in Lithia, Georgia, that, when fully operational later this year, will produce 36 million masks per month.  READ MORE Plastic toiletry bottles could disappear from NYS hotels NRDC Legislation winding its way through the State Legislature could make New York the second state in the nation to ban environmentally troublesome, individual-size plastic bottles from hotels and motels. The legislative push — led by State Senator Todd Kaminsky and by Assemblymember Steve Englebright — is the latest step in Legislature's recent efforts to tackle the ever-growing problem associated with throw-away, single-use plastics.  READ MORE A year in, pandemic poses new legal questions for hotels Hotel News Now via CoStar Along with driving down demand, the COVID-19 pandemic has created several new legal challenges for the U.S. hotel industry. During the "ALIS Law 6x8: Recovery Top of Mind" webinar, several hotel industry and legal experts spoke about the legal and legislative issues hoteliers must now navigate.  READ MORE The rise of antibacterial surfaces in hotel design Hotel Designs The hospitality industry is known for its interiors — with many venues achieving recognition for their aesthetically pleasing design schemes. 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