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USA Today
Marriott International, the largest hotel company in the world, is betting big on modular construction to drive its growth in North America.
The Bethesda, Maryland-based company expects to sign 50 hotel deals this year that would incorporate prefabricated guestrooms and/or bathrooms. That would make up about 13 percent of signings for North America this year.
The construction process works like this: Guestrooms and bathrooms are built away from the site of the hotel in a climate-controlled factory. Once completed, the units are transported to the site, where the base and frame of the property have been built.
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Lodging
Hotel bathrooms have come a long way from plain, white spaces used merely for wash and go. After all, they are among the most important rooms in our living areas. Their design, layout, and overall look have changed and improved dramatically over the past years to become spaces for stylish comfort and relaxation as we prepare our clean, fragrant, and refreshed selves for our busy lives waiting outside. Just as a hot bath or shower can be calming, bathrooms can be antidotes for our stressful modern lives.
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IFMA's FMJ magazine
How can you get the most efficiency out of existing workers, assets and systems? Rather than focusing on long-term capital investments, consider asset management software. Offered as a cloud-based subscription, it's an operational expense instead of capital outlay. Technology can increase efficiency in five specific areas.
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Green Lodging News
In an age of environmental consciousness, green building in the hospitality sector has increased by 50 percent from 2011 to 2013 and now represents 25 percent of all new construction today. Why not 100 percent? The one thing that may be holding the hospitality sector back is the price of green building materials, which can often cost at least 5 percent more than regular materials.
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The Architect's Newspaper
Fifty years ago, the term wellness — if it was used at all—essentially meant "not sick." Then, throughout the '80s and '90s, the rise of gym culture and workplace wellness
snowballed into an explosion of fitness boutiques in the early aughts. In city centers and upscale suburbs today, specialized fitness boutiques such as SoulCycle, PureBarre, Barry's Bootcamp, and FlyWheel are nearly as ubiquitous as Starbucks.
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FMLink
The Air-Conditioning, Heating, and Refrigeration Institute welcomed President Donald Trump’s effort to reform the nation’s tax system, which has not been significantly reformed since the Reagan Administration. The current depreciation period for capital HVACR and water heating equipment is set at 39 years in the tax code, in some cases more than double its useful life, points out AHRI.
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Hotel Executive
The generally accepted definition of sustainable operations is our using of resources such that we meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. Certainly energy is chief among those resources that we are encouraged to use sustainably. In an article by Climate Progress, Why Energy Efficiency Is The Most Important Fuel We Didn't Know We Had (Sept, 2014), the author begins by pointing out that "energy efficiency has graduated from the 'hidden fuel' to the 'first fuel.'"
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Facility Executive
The Bring Your Own Device trend has taken the enterprise by storm. Smartphones, tablets, wearables, and laptops are now at the ready for most employees, creating a seismic shift in workplace design and operations. The BYOD market already accounts for $35 billion, but in the years ahead, it will more than double. The driving forces behind BYOD include increased productivity and employee satisfaction, reduced hardware cost for employers and the demand for enterprise mobility.
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ACHR News
It is estimated that HVAC systems account for approximately 40 percent of the energy used in commercial buildings, which is why many building owners and managers are looking for ways to cut these costs. One way to do that may be to utilize evaporative cooling systems, which can be relatively inexpensive to purchase and often require much less energy than other forms of cooling.
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FMLink
A National Safety Council survey found 36 percent of the 2,000 full-time and part-time employees in the 14 industries surveyed by NSC feel their employers prioritize productivity over safety.
Worse, 58 percent of Americans working in construction — the industry that sees the most workplace fatalities each year — feel that safety takes a backseat to productivity and completing job tasks.
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