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Buffalo Business First
An outbreak of Legionnaires' disease in the New York City area will have a long-term impact on how buildings are managed across the state.
Officials at the state Department of Health adopted emergency regulations to regulate cooling towers, with the new rules taking effect immediately.
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Green Lodging News via Green Biz
Last fall, Stem, Inc. announced it had finalized an agreement to deploy advanced energy storage systems and real-time energy intelligence software across 68 of Extended Stay America, Inc.'s California locations.
About two months ago, the Shore Hotel in Santa Monica, California, officially unveiled its Green Charge Networks intelligent energy storage system.
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Energy Manager Today
Minimizing energy costs, ensuring a reliable energy supply and reducing the impact of energy use on the environment are all important considerations for companies and organizations today. For over a century, organizations across the globe have used combined heat and power (CHP), also known as cogeneration, as a strategy to provide reliable electricity, steam, hot water and cooling with lower cost and emissions than grid-supplied electricity and an on-site boiler.
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Hotel Management
One of the biggest changes in door locks comes from keyless entry. Radio frequency identification and other contactless technologies such as near field communication and Bluetooth low energy allow guests to check in and access hotel rooms via their cell phones, often through a hotel’s brand or property app (and sometimes from a third-party app).
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Buildings
Sophisticated controls can be a great way to boost the energy efficiency of your HVAC system, but if they're not installed properly or used correctly, you may end up wasting energy without realizing it.
Issues with building controls are frequently the result of human error, explains Kevin Callahan, product owner for Alerton, a Honeywell business that specializes in building automation systems.
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Hotel Management
As with anything associated with technology, the parts within hotel door locks are getting smaller. This has brought about a streamlining of lock design, with the large door lock sensors of yesteryear slimming down and even often being placed within the body of a door, out of sight, out of mind.
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Facilities Net
Despite the widespread use of electronic card access control systems, many institutional and commercial facilities still use traditional locks and keys. It is still less expensive to equip a door with a standard lock than with any type of electronic access control device. For these reasons, most facilities equip only a small percentage of their doors with electronic access devices and install traditional locks on the majority of their other doors.
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FacilityDude
You know that having a facility that's resilient as well as efficient is key for maintaining operational effectiveness and keeping costs down. But what exactly does a resilient building look like, and how can you ensure that you're doing everything you can to encourage that sort of operation? Building resilience is a broad property, and it's influenced by nearly every element of your facility's operation. Here are a few ways that you can direct your building maintenance efforts to increase your facility's resilience and, in the process, reduce your operating costs.
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Green Lodging News
Water treatment for systems such as cooling towers, chillers, heat exchangers and evaporative condensers has traditionally been one that has required the use of hazardous chemicals — e.g. chlorine, bromine, isothiazolinone, molybdate, phosphonate — to control calcium, bacteria, algae, scale, corrosion and biofilm.
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By Bruce Condit
Work order management systems continue to evolve rapidly in the world of facility maintenance. Today, these high-tech, integrated tools can access and provide data from multiple platforms and provide both retailers and vendors the information needed to make better, faster decisions that cut costs and improve efficiencies. Recently, the Professional Retail Store Maintenance Association surveyed the retail industry to better understand the state of FM work order management practices.
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