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With tight budgets and rising costs, building owners and facility managers are faced with a constant challenge: how to do more with less.
Making the right decisions about where to spend your time and money can seem like an impossible challenge. Today, advanced building analytics software offers the critical next step for facility managers, not just showing where, but also why inefficiencies in a system occur.
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Security Sales & Integration
Customer requests for integration between building security and building automation have become more common in recent years for a variety of reasons. Building codes require more automation to meet energy efficiency targets, and, at the same time, building operators are using automation to cut costs. Integrating building automation and physical access control can allow building operators to control all building functions on a single interface thereby controlling costs.
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Hotel Business Review
When designing today's hospitality venues, whether they're fully outfitted resorts, boutique hotels, or beach side bungalows, hoteliers are finding ways to streamline design and simplify the guest experience. Muted colors and minimal furnishings in combination with earthy textures, expansive views of the outdoors, fresh scents and liberal doses of natural light not only foster a sense of peace but also help today's travelers set aside everyday distractions for the serenity that simplified living provides.
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Facility Executive
Constantly changing federal, state and local rules governing stormwater discharges are intended to improve the management and control of runoff water, but the practical result often increases both the complexity of compliance and cost of noncompliance. The rules impact the operation of existing facilities, design of new and modified facilities, and management of construction. As stormwater regulations become more stringent, it is increasingly difficult for facility management to figure out how to go with the flow and not drown in an enforcement tidal wave.
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ACHR News
Building information modeling is not a new concept in the mechanical contracting and construction industries. In fact, it has become somewhat of a requirement in most midsize to large construction projects. However, according to a new white paper from the Sheet Metal & Air Conditioning Contractors' National Association, everyone in the construction industry has a different definition of BIM, and many in the sheet metal industry have not adopted it "because they lack a clear, practical understanding of what BIM could mean to them."
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Frost & Sullivan via FM Link
Compliance to building codes are a given as the need for efficient heating, ventilation, fire safety and security in North American buildings and facilities is very critical. It is worthwhile to go beyond code requirements and efforts to exceed codes compliance to add value to a facility's operations. Unwillingness to understand and comply with codes can have debilitating effects on any facility or organization.
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BUILDINGS
With the Zika virus' quick expansion into the Americas making the news, now is the right time to ensure that your building's defenses against mosquitoes (which carry the virus) can keep occupants safe. Since there is no known medical treatment for the disease, keeping the potentially dangerous insects away from areas where people congregate is the best defense against this emerging threat.
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Hotel News Now
Slowly but surely, the once-standard tub/shower combination in many hotel bathrooms is becoming a thing of the past. Due to changing guest preferences, along with brand company recommendations and mandates, owners building new hotels or renovating existing properties are installing walk-in showers without tubs in many guestrooms.
Executives from several brand companies said in general they "recommend" or "encourage" owners to convert a majority of bathrooms from tub/shower combinations to walk-in showers only. For the most part, brand company recommendations are for showers only in king-bedded guestrooms and in some double rooms.
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Energy Manager Today
Updating the technology that is used in one of the most innocuous actions in everyday life – something to which most people don’t give a second thought – can save grocery and convenience store owners a lot of money.
Refrigerator display cases eat up a tremendous amount of energy. That is unavoidable. But there is a subtle step that can drastically cut expenditures: Eliminate the condensation that obstructs shoppers’ views into these display cases.
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Energy Manager Today
Among the biggest users of electricity in a building are the motors being used by the building itself — for heating, ventilation and air conditioning and other duties — and by tenants for their businesses.
Both should be tracked by energy and facility managers. Motors — or, more specifically, the ways in which they are controlled — is evolving.
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