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Hotel Management
High-tech construction materials are making it easier and less expensive for developers to raise a building — even during cold winters. They can also save an operator money in the long run by improving the building's thermal retention, keeping the spaces cooler in summer and warmer in winter while using less electricity.
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Green Lodging News
From global hotel operators like Hilton, Marriott and InterContinental Hotels Group to independent hoteliers like the Broadmoor, more hospitality professionals are using modular construction to open properties faster and meet green building goals.
"We believe the modular process will be a game changer for our valued development partners, especially during a time when labor shortages can be a challenge to timely openings," said Karim Khalifa, Marriott International's former Senior Vice President of Global Design Strategies.
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Buildings
The lighting energy efficiency standard that takes effect on Jan. 1, 2020, will eliminate most of the existing incandescent and halogen light bulbs in the U.S. from the market.
The standard is part of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, which introduced a two-tiered set of lighting mandates. The first tier was phased in between 2012 and 2014 and required bulbs to use 25-30 percent less energy than the original incandescents.
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Hotel Management
The interconnected philosophies of wellness, biophilia/nature and design are helping Wyndham Hotels & Resorts launch two new guestroom looks. The new design schemes were unveiled during Wyndham Hotel Group’s 2018 Global Conference at the Mandalay Bay Resort, with a focus not only on how the rooms would look, but how they would make guests feel.
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Facility Executive
Flooring and its maintenance can be a costly and time-consuming investment for a facility. While hard costs associated with this cleaning and maintenance can be significant, another factor to consider is the amount of downtime needed to maintain the floor and how those interruptions can impact building occupants. People are affected by floor maintenance in countless ways. Students can become distracted from learning, hospitals run less efficiently, worker productivity may drop, and retail spaces and restaurants could lose incremental revenue.
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IFMA's FMJ Magazine
Managing employees in the digital age is ever-changing, which makes it important for leaders to keep up. Sixty percent of employees want feedback on a daily or weekly basis — a system for regular employee-manager check-ins; but before managers can meet those expectations, they need to rethink how they support people and set them up for success. Performance coaching is about creating the conditions for employees to do their best work.
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FacilitiesNet
As commercial and institutional facilities of all kinds become smarter and more complex, more things can go wrong, especially in hard-to-reach places that often require front-line technicians to use lifts and aerial work platforms to move themselves, their tools and the needed materials.
But before technicians can safely and productively operate lifts, maintenance and engineering managers must make sure they have had the proper safety training and understand all lift features and functions. Technicians can create hazards if they operate lifts with which they are not familiar.
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Facilitiesnet
Biometrics technology has been around for many years and is typically used for access control in areas where a high level of security is needed. More recently, wearables have entered the facilities market, seeking to make the authentication process frictionless. Beyond authentication, wearable technology has a potential future application for data gathering and interaction with the built environment not possible before.
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Facility Executive
Many states and municipalities have strict guidelines for how and when landscape turf and shrubbery can be watered. In most cases, there are stiff fines for overwatering or watering on non-designated days. Plus, the cost for wasted water can add significantly to operations budgets. Rain Bird, an Azusa, California-based manufacturer and provider of irrigation products and services for the intelligent use of water, offers these five steps for facility managers to follow in their landscape care practices to reduce water usage.
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CleanLink
By now, you are no stranger to the importance of ongoing training and professional development for staff. On any given day, however, even a highly-trained staff will be vastly outnumbered by the occupants and visitors to your facility. This imbalance is more than just budget cuts and mandates to "do more with less." This can be a daily asymmetric "Battle for the Building."
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