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Facility Executive
Located on the banks of the Potomac just outside of Washington, D.C., in Oxon Hill, Maryland, the $1.4 billion MGM National Harbor serves as a premier entertainment destination for the nation's capital. Opened in December 2016, the luxurious 23-story casino/hotel resort features 308 guest rooms; 135,000 square feet of gaming space; retail shops; a spa; nine restaurants featuring renown local and national chefs; a 3,000-seat theater with seven VIP suites; 27,000 square feet of meeting and event space; and a 4,800-car parking garage.
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USA Today
The hotel guestroom telephone is being ignored more and more these days.
The average hotel guest checks in with three mobile devices. That has pushed the guestroom phone down the list of preferred communication devices.
"We have noticed a significant decline in guest room phone usage and that guests, by and large, bring and use their own mobile phones," says Kevin Carl, executive vice president and chief information officer of Radisson Hotel Group.
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REMI Network
High humidity levels may be associated with the summertime, but moisture issues can be problematic well into the fall and winter because of humidity-generating activities and circumstances such as cooking, hot water usage, water leaks, air leaks and even the building's exterior. If a condominium property has moisture problems, its board and manager are sure to have unhappy residents on their hands.
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Energy Manager Today
The latest lighting technology for parking areas quickly pays for itself and can reap energy savings of up to 70 percent, according to the U.S. Department of Energy.
The department has promoted its Lighting Energy Efficiency in Parking Campaign to support participants in their efforts to upgrade and install energy-efficiency equipment and lighting controls in more than 540 million square feet of parking facilities since 2012.
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Lodging Magazine
IBM Watson this week announced the launch of Watson Assistant, an enterprise AI assistant that can be accessed via voice or text interaction. The assistant is designed to help businesses transform customer experiences by delivering proactive and personalized services made possible through the technology's continual learning of consumer preferences. That means that unlike most existing assistants, Watson Assistant gets to know a user through each interaction rather than just responding to each command based on generic, publicly available information.
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IFMA's FMJ Magazine
Some experts estimate that as many as 1 trillion building sensors will be in place by 2025. For facility management professionals, the insights made available by the Internet of Things could help make buildings more efficient, sustainable and responsive to people's needs. Having a strategy for collecting, storing and using data is an important part of IoT activation; but your IoT journey doesn't have to be comprehensive or high risk.
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