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Lodging Magazine
The hospitality industry has more considerations when constructing buildings than any other industry. Hotels need to cater to their guests on many different levels, from comfort to safety. In today's world, it's also key to do so in an environmentally friendly and sustainable way.
With recent natural disasters hitting areas of the country, many hotels are in need of retrofitting to make them more durable during a storm. While making these improvements is necessary, doing so in a sustainable fashion can be an important selling point for future guests. The following tips can help keep a property safe, weather-proof, and sustainable all at once.
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NBC News
People all over could be breathing in the lingering particles from years-old smoke breaks, researchers recently reported. They found evidence that lingering smoke particles — called thirdhand smoke — can be picked up and spread all around buildings by forced air HVAC systems. That could mean that people need to be aware not only of secondhand smoke from cigarettes and other tobacco products, but might need to worry about people taking smoke breaks outside, or even the residue from years ago.
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Hotel Management
Only a year after opening its first hotel in Oklahoma City, the development team behind Hilton's midscale Tru brand is already implementing changes, rolling out an updated prototype with upgrades to the guestrooms and public spaces for future development.
In a statement, the company claimed that the new design was "guided by strategic partnerships with key stakeholders including owners, guests, property team members, general contractors and architects." The original prototype was created in tandem with Cincinnati-based FRCH Design Worldwide.
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Business 2 Community
In the era of digital transformation, industry-leading firms are increasingly combining transparency with data- and analytics-driven service automation to optimize facilities management operations. The result is a leap to computer-aided facilities management platforms as a strategic management tool. Modern CAFM is a platform, an efficient way of monitoring and controlling business facility tasks in one place, typically via an integrated suite of cloud- / SaaS- and mobile-based software.
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Forbes
Harmful pollutants are spewing everywhere, including indoors. And while the focus is on those external emissions created by power plants, industrial facilities and automobiles, there is solid reason to turn inward: The level of volatile organic compounds — gases from solids and liquids — is 10 times greater indoors than it is outdoors.
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Hotel Executive
Energy is resource. A commodity. It is produced by burning or otherwise manipulating another commodity – coal, oil, gas, uranium, sunlight, and wind are currently some favorites.
Energy use is an activity. In the hotel business context it is a complex activity. It requires the coordination of hundreds of other activities and resources and systems from fields including finance, contract law, knowledge and risk management, and human behavior, in addition to the fields of engineering and technology that may first come to mind.
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FacilitiesNet
Automatic sprinkler systems are widely regarded as one of the top life safety and property protection choices that can be made by a building owner or design team. The building codes enforce this by providing numerous "trade-offs" that allow flexibility in building design and construction. While the building codes fully support and sometimes mandate the installation of automatic sprinkler systems, they leave many design choices up to the building owner and design team.
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Facility Executive
The U.S. workplace is getting safer, but the cost of the most serious workplace injuries is rising, according to the findings of the most recent Liberty Mutual Workplace Safety Index.
The number of the most serious workplace injuries and illnesses fell by 1.5 percent, while their cost – medical and lost-wage payments – increased by 2.9 percent between the 2017 and 2018 reports. The rank order of the top 10 causes remained the same.
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IFMA's FMJ Magazine
The best way to overcome the financial burden of upgrades is to get the improvements to pay for themselves. When done correctly, energy-efficient infrastructure upgrades can generate enough savings to do so. When energy savings are coupled with capital infusion, even the most costly facility repairs can be supported through this strategy.
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The Conversation
Organic semiconductors can be used to create flexible, lightweight molecules, which would be used to create solar windows that double as flat screens. Organic semiconductors are carbon-based and can more quickly produce the energy needed to create them than can traditional semiconductors
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