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Green Lodging News
According to the most recent AH&LA/AHLEF/STR Lodging Survey, 64 percent of U.S. hotels have a recycling program. That percentage rises to 90 percent in the luxury and upper upscale segments. Most of the major hotel companies have established goals for reducing waste. One example: Hilton Worldwide had a 2015 goal to divert waste from landfills by 25 percent in the Americas and Asia Pacific.
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IFMA's FMJ magazine
Today's FM organizations and integrated FM service providers have more business influence than ever before. This is due to in large part to advancements in facility data and accessibility, data analytics and new technologies, increasing emphasis on FM as a value driver. As a result, the convergence of technology, evolving workplace needs and integrated facility management has ushered in a new era of internal and external FM organizations as strategic partners.
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Lodging
When it comes to running a hotel, ensuring guest comfort is paramount to the entire experience. There are any number of issues that could cause discomfort, but one of the most visceral is a pest problem. Eliminating an infestation is expensive and high-stress, so preventing them from even happening is key for hoteliers.
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Consulting-Specifying Engineer
Thermal comfort is an indoor environmental-quality feature that has proven to impact productivity. Variables that impact the air temperature at which one may feel comfortable are clothing, metabolic activity, indoor air temperature, humidity, radiant temperature and air speed. In addition to these factors, user expectation can also shift if the space is naturally conditioned using operable windows with the availability of control.
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Facilitiesnet
Doing more with less is the order of the day for most facility managers. One way savvy FMs have found to attack this new de facto directive is make liberal use of new technology, especially in the areas of energy and water efficiency. Deploying technology that actually saves money and pays back quickly is not only an important strategy for managing a shrinking budget, it’s also critical to sustainability goals.
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Hotel Management
Hotel operators are familiar with pest-control strategies to deal with mosquitoes, what with the insects transmitting everything from yellow fever to the West Nile virus. Stan Cope, director of entomology and regulatory services for Terminix, said that the mosquitoes that will transmit Zika are active primarily during the daytime, and they have different preferred breeding locations from other species, giving hotels a plan of attack to reduce the likelihood of their appearance on property.
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Facilitiesnet
During a season in which weather can be potentially hazardous, it’s important that building and facility managers take the proper precautions to help prevent elevator damage and protect the safety of building occupants. Consider the following tips before, during and after weather-related events.
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Energy Manager Today
Commercial buildings are incredibly inefficient, resulting in massive amounts of wasted energy, resources and expenditures. In fact, the average commercial building wastes about 30 percent of the energy used to run it.
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BUILDINGS
Over the last decade, the United Nations has been making efforts to make its New York headquarters a more sustainable location. To meet this goal, the U.N.'s Secretariat Building underwent a major retrofit to install automated window shading to cut back on energy consumption and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
However, not every building can be retrofitted at that level, as it's safe to say most FMs don't have access to the resources that the building housing the U.N. has.
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FMLink
The National Roofing Contractors Association has released its 2015-2016 market survey providing information about overall sales volume trends in the roofing industry, roofing experiences, material usage and regional breakdowns.
NRCA says it is an important tool to measure the scope of the U.S. roofing industry, and the data provides a glimpse into which roof systems are trending in the low- and steep-slope roofing markets. Facilities managers who are contemplating a roof renovation project or part of a new construction project may benefit from the insights as well.
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