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Lodging Engineer
With peak travel season right around the corner, concerns from the Zika virus still remain while a warm winter may bring increased pest activity. Orkin's new manager of technical services, Chelle Hartzer, provides hoteliers with several easy tips to keep unwanted pests away and out of sight from guests.
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Hotel Management
A from the Labor Department is rolling back an Obama-era labor rule known for its nebulous conditions regarding employer liability.
The current joint employer rule puts many businesses, including hotels, in tough positions due to its lack of clarity regarding who was liable in the event of employment and civil rights violations.
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Lodging Engineer
Your hotel's complex piping infrastructure can be thought of as the human body. Arteries and veins work tirelessly, 24/7, to carry blood throughout your body, much like the way water and drain pipe systems work in a building. Internal bleeding or clogs in the circulatory system are severely worrisome, expensive and disruptive to one's life.
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Facility Executive
The list of health hazards associated with cleaning chemicals is enough to give anyone pause: asthma, cancer, burns and poisoning, allergies, and reproductive problems. Not just a scare tactic used by manufacturers of green cleaning products, these risks have been studied extensively. Traditional cleaning chemicals commonly contain harsh substances that are harmful on contact or when released into the air. Some of the worst offenders include chlorine bleach, ammonia, formaldehyde, fragrance additives, triclosan (found in antibacterial soaps), and even pine- and citrus-based cleaners (which release volatile terpenes).
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FacilitiesNet
Doug Pearson, executive director of facilities planning and Management, University of Wisconsin, La Crosse, discusses why he uses building performance standards in his operation, the intersection of form and function at his new Student Union building, which is LEED Gold certified, and how facility managers must adapt buildings to new methods of instruction.
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PennState
Researchers at Penn State are investigating the use of ultraviolet germicidal irradiation as a long-term maintenance solution for cooling coils in heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems in buildings.
The research, conducted by William Bahnfleth, professor of architectural engineering, and alumnus Joseph Firrantello, is a field study that involved the installation of sensors to collect temperature, humidity, air flow and pressure drop data on HVAC cooling coils before and after UVGI was used to clean away the buildup of microorganisms.
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Business 2 Community
As a discipline geared towards efficient delivery of support services for businesses, facility management has become an indispensable asset for any company on the rise. Its interdisciplinary approach covers topics ranging from provision of space for clients and working crew, services management, building safety, building maintenance and general business planning; measuring the potential impact, our decisions can inflict over these variables.
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Hospitality Net
Those of us who have been in the hotel business for years (or even weeks, for that matter) know how unglamorous it can be. There are messes to clean up, unhappy guests to reassure, and occupancy rates to worry about. Of course, if you and your staff are doing the job well, the external "sheen" of the hotel is spotless, both in terms of physical space and guest services. But beneath the surface, there is always gritty work to be done.
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Hotel News Now
Along with the more visible physical changes that can come with a brand conversion, the transition brings about some technology challenges as well.
It’s not as simple as flipping a switch or downloading new software, though these might be part of the process. Hoteliers with experience moving from brand to brand, brand to independent or vice versa said conversions require careful planning and coordination to meet all of the technology requirements.
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IFMA's FMJ Magazine
Sustainability projects still have a hard time meeting organizational financial criteria. To justify investment in larger energy-conservation updates, facility managers need to leverage a more comprehensive business argument that couples energy savings with hard and soft cost benefits.
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