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Green Lodging News
Asbestos is a natural mineral, but it is also extremely harmful to human health. Exposure to it can cause tissue damage in the body that over the years ultimately results in serious illness, including the rare but aggressive cancer known as mesothelioma. One of the most common places in which exposure occurs is in older buildings. Remodeling and renovating buildings with asbestos requires careful protection and trained workers.
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Hotel Executive
Whether a guest is staying at your hotel for business or pleasure, their first impression can be a lasting one. Even before they walk into your hotel's lobby, they've already started to form their opinion of your hotel - whether that was based on a visit to your website or as they drove up to your hotel. Just as the messaging on your website helps to set expectations and provides your guests with a glimpse into your commitment to making their stay at your hotel an enjoyable one, so does the appearance of your landscape.
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BUILDINGS
In parts of the world, the weeks are getting hotter, and refrigeration systems need to stay cool despite the heat. Commercial-grade refrigerators and freezers working through warm temperatures are critical for restaurants, grocery stores, convenience marts and many other businesses. Facility managers who have experienced a broken, overheated refrigeration system know a faulty system of any size can quickly turn into a catastrophe.
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Facility Executive
With summer’s hot and humid temperatures just around the corner, now is the time for commercial buildings to make preparations to beat the heat. HVAC costs account for 44 percent of energy consumption in all U.S. commercial buildings and a whopping 53 percent in U.S. office buildings, according to the 2012 U.S. EIA Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption Survey – and with warmer temperatures on the horizon, greater energy consumption is required to cool the outside air coming into a building, resulting in higher costs.
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Green Lodging News
Extending the life of a hotel asset typically results in both cost and environmental savings. Perhaps in no other instance is that more true than with furniture. Refinishing, reupholstering or repurposing furniture keeps it out of the landfill and extends the return on the original investment. "It is a huge savings environmentally," says Bob Stephens, owner of Northern Lights Restoration, Spencer, New York, adding that cost savings can range from 70 percent to 95 percent compared to the cost of replacement.
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FacilitiesNet
To the average person, concrete is a symbol of strength and endurance. Because of its durability, concrete has become one of the most widely used materials in institutional and commercial facilities.
But this perception has a downside. Managers often mistakenly assumed that these features of strength and durability mean it does not require regular maintenance. Concrete is constantly under attack by a range of forces, including those caused by weather and use.
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Hotel Management
Automation is sweeping the service industry by storm, and while hotels have shown interest in automation and interactive devices, they have struggled to find a place for this technology. Interacting with a machine at the front desk may be out of place in an industry defined by service, but speaking to a robot in the guestroom, in privacy, is a trend with potential.
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FacilitiesNet
Unlike the damage to sidewalks and drive aprons, damage to concrete parking garages might not be visible until it is extensive. The typical damage in concrete parking garages is the result of corrosion to the embedded reinforcing steel.
When vehicles entered the garage, they carry in water and road salts and deposit them on the drive surfaces of the garage. The concrete absorbs the water and salts, which come into contact with the reinforcing steel.
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Small Business Trends
What can small businesses — especially those operating on the web — learn from the latest ransomware attacks.
Recently, hackers dispatched ransomware called WannaCrypt. When it was opened on computers, it locked users from accessing necessary data. The only way to unlock the hack was to pay a ransom via Bitcoin.
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