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USA Today
Hotel companies are starting to conclude that guestroom key cards are no longer the key to customer satisfaction.
The largest hotel companies in the world are experimenting with technology that allows guests to use their smartphones to open the doors to their rooms, bypassing the front desk upon arrival. Many of the hotels require guests to become members of their loyalty programs in order to use keyless entry. The functionality is also tied to mobile check-in on the hotel's app.
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IFMA's FMJ magazine
Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) have the capacity to quickly decrease a building's energy usage. But simply installing this type of lamp doesn't guarantee that you're on your way to a smaller carbon footprint and lower utility bills. Not all LEDs are created equal, and the wrong LEDs may not be capable of providing the energy and financial savings you expect.
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Green Lodging News
In my 20 years of industrial design experience, it continues to surprise me how many people consider refuse collection to be an addition to a building rather than a core part of its design. As Director of Industrial Design at Rubbermaid Commercial Products, I am often tasked with helping hotels ensure waste is disposed of in the right bin — no small feat when you consider how much waste a hotel can generate on a busy day.
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Facility Executive
With a goal of bringing about quicker resolution for whistleblowers and employers regarding claims of retaliation, the U.S. Department of Labor's Western Region has implemented a new pilot process. OSHA's investigation process can take time, but with the "Expedited Case Processing Pilot" in place complainants may be able to receive a determination more quickly without losing their rights to a hearing by electing to expedite OSHA's processing of their claims.
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Energy Manager Today
Predictive maintenance is no longer only about maintaining a single piece of equipment to ensure reliability. Today it is about the macro view of energy consumption, devices, system optimization and continuous awareness.
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Facility Executive
Among the flurry of conferences, webinars, and workshops aimed at increasing awareness and developing collaborative efforts to reduce the carbon footprint of buildings, nearly all concerned identify improving energy efficiency as a key — or even the only — near-term response that can reduce greenhouse gas emissions by the order of magnitude believed to be needed.
Unfortunately, the building industry appears to be caught in the classic conundrum of doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different outcome.
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AutomatedBuildings.com
As we transition to more complex, higher performing, and energy efficient buildings, it is apparent that traditional building management systems are not up to the task of monitoring and managing today's building operations. What are the shortcomings of the legacy building management system? The list is quite long, but the major items include limited integration capabilities, inadequate and elementary analytic tools, proprietary programming languages, a dearth of software applications and legacy user interfaces.
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Consulting-Specifying Engineer
As LED illumination technology improves in efficiency, reliability and quality, building owners become interested in cost-effective ways to apply LED lighting in their facilities. In many cases, retrofitting existing fluorescent or incandescent luminaires will be an attractive alternative to wholesale fixture replacement.
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Hotel Management
One of the industry's favorite new innovations is keyless check-in, which allows guests bypass the front desk by checking in with their phone and then use their mobile device as a key. While this presents clear improvements to the guest experience by allowing them to potentially skip long lines right as they enter a hotel, what security concerns does it bring with it?
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BUILDINGS
Pest birds such as pigeons, crows, geese, and ducks can wreak havoc on businesses, costing them money, productivity, health hazards, and customers. Bird droppings not only damage buildings and equipment, they increase a company's liability and health risks. Birds and bird droppings can carry more than 60 transmittable diseases, like West Nile virus, salmonella and E. coli, and parasites such as ticks, fleas and lice.
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