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Green Lodging News
A well-executed building equipment project can save energy, reduce maintenance costs, and significantly improve the guest experience. However, a poorly managed project can be disastrous for a hotel in terms of the resultant cost overruns, guest complaints, and long-term dissatisfaction with the installed equipment.
We discuss five areas where strong project management can provide for a successful building equipment upgrade including: 1) Project Team Structure; 2) Operator Involvement; 3) Scheduling; 4) Risk Management and Contingency Planning, and 5) Project Closeout.
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Energy Manager Today
Facility executives in charge of demanding environments— hospitals, pharmaceutical manufacturing and higher education campuses, for example — often are challenged to cut costs and help their organizations meet sustainability goals. Heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems are the natural place to look: these systems typically account for 44 percent of commercial buildings' energy consumption.
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Hotel News Now
Hotel industry tech experts anticipate hotel companies will invest more in mobile application capabilities and bandwidth speeds in 2017, and guests will continue to give out personal data, which could aid hoteliers.
Ron Hardin, VP of technology at Davidson Hotels & Resorts, said the need for faster bandwidth speeds will grow as more and more guests start bringing multiple devices and streaming video in their rooms.
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FacilitiesNet
Even with all the information about light-emitting diode (LED) technology available to maintenance and engineering managers, their benefits often get lost in the message.
"It's confusing if you're not in this market every single day," says Jerry Duffy with Current Powered by GE. "It's confusing to know who the players are and if there are any distinctions between the LEDs, and there definitely are."
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IFMA's FMJ magazine
Facility managers are often on the frontlines of office decommissions, and they are increasingly playing a role in sustainable planning supply-chain management and reporting. As the professionals who influence both sustainability strategy and day-to-day implementation, FMs are uniquely positioned to bring better practices to the world of office decommissioning.
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Facility Executive
Achieving energy efficiency is a crucial aspect of facility management. Not only is it important for the environment and transitioning into a more sustainable society but, frankly, it's also good for lowering costs. Energy rates for offices, plants, and institutions are going up. Energy is the one of the largest expenses for a facility. It's easy to understand why energy efficiency is important from a business standpoint.
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Environmental Defense Fund
In 2008, the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) launched Climate Corps, an innovative graduate fellowship program committed to jump-starting investment in corporate energy efficiency. Now, after almost a decade of embedding over 700 fellows inside large organizations across all sectors — public, private and nonprofit — we've taken a step back to survey the broader landscape.
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Facility Executive
There has been no shortage of chatter about benefits that smart building technologies can bring to the business world and workplace. For years, buildings have been upgraded and outfitted with new technologies that improve building functionality and performance, but at the same time those new technologies have also added complexity to the way buildings are managed.
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GreenBiz
Access to energy data is a foundational enabler for organizations that want to reduce utility costs. Energy data is most useful to energy, facility and sustainability professionals, and senior decision-makers also may want to understand how energy impacts the bottom line.
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