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CIO
After traveling all day, the last thing you want to do is wait in a long line to check into your hotel. And when you finally get to the front desk, it seems like the hotelier has to type a million keystrokes into the computer before finally handing you your room key.
Starwood Hotels, a hotel chain with over 1,200 properties worldwide, is eliminating this process and other points of frustration with mobile and wearable technologies.
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Boutique Design
The corporate landscape is evolving nonstop, and so are the needs of business travelers. While today's tech-oriented guest rooms accommodate the desire to plug-in at the desk, bed and beyond, hotel-based meeting spaces are now transcending the cold conference feel of yesteryear to reach a new level of creative cool.
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FacilityDude
As everyone knows, nothing lasts forever. This is especially true for your building's equipment and essential infrastructure. Despite your best efforts and a regular planned maintenance schedule, facility managers know that everything will need repairs and, ultimately, replacing one day.
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Green Lodging News
Hotels around the country are getting greener and more sustainable. For the most part, their emphasis has been on such things as reducing energy consumption, using less gas and electricity and using it more efficiently, along with transferring to cleaning solutions that have a reduced impact on the environment. But most recently, their big focus is on water ... or, shall we say, the lack thereof.
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iOffice
With so many intangibles to manage on a daily basis, managers of FM teams and other "bosses" can overlook one of the most critical factors to an organization's success; the people. Your team is your support, your ways and means and sometimes your reputation. A good FM team operates cooperatively, keeps the overarching goals in mind and springs to action, when called upon. Can you say the same about your workforce? Are they engaged? Do they ask questions, follow up on assignments or take initiative to go above and beyond?
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Facilities Net
Education is a key factor in the design and development of any program. I suggest first that the facility manager assess his or her current understanding of how energy is consumed by equipment in facilities and then determine how much help is needed to develop an energy-focused maintenance program.
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Energy Manager Today
The market for energy-efficient commercial heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems is expected to more than double, from $22.8 billion in 2015 to $47.5 billion in 2024, according to a new report from Navigant Research. Many governments have implemented efficiency regulations specific to commercial buildings, and many building owners have adopted energy-efficient technology as part of voluntary building rating standards or to reduce operating expenses.
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BUILDINGS
Noise begets noise — the latter in the form of complaints.
Occupant complaints about acoustics are one of the most frequently heard by FMs. The Center for the Built Environment (CBE) at the University of California reports that more than 50 percent of employees are unhappy with speech privacy in their workspaces. CBE also found that 60 percent of office workers in cubicles say that acoustics directly interferes with their job performance.
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Facility Executive
Whether it's a coffee shop entrepreneur building her business nationally through the addition of locations, a major corporation adding international sites via an acquisition, or a local school district constructing new facilities to replace aging ones, securing multiple sites presents a special challenge to facility management and security personnel.
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By Michael J. Berens
Washington Post columnist Petula Dvorak hit an icy nerve with her recent piece on gender disputes over thermal comfort. "Every single woman I talked to in downtown Washington on a hot, humid July afternoon was thawing out," Dvorak writes. "It's the time of year desperate women rely on cardigans, pashminas and space heaters to make it through the workweek in their frigid offices. And their male colleagues barely notice." It doesn't have to be that way, though, thanks to advances in smart technology.
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