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Houston Chronicle
Houston's hotel construction activity has declined after Hurricane Harvey, according to a new report.
Local hoteliers were under construction on 4,494 hotel rooms in September, a 15 percent drop from last year, according to STR.
Nationally, hoteliers were under construction on 188,479 rooms, a 6 percent increase year over year, according to the Tennessee-based hotel data firm.
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Facilitiesnet
There are many reasons that building owners may want to pursue some level LEED certification for a new facility. Certainly they can achieve high levels of sustainability without the LEED label, but the label itself offers value. It can demonstrate to stakeholders, whether students on a campus, citizens in a community or investors in a company, a commitment to building environmentally sensitive facilities. LEED certification is so highly valued that developers are able to charge more in rents in certain markets when a building is LEED certified.
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FacilitiesNet
"Deferred maintenance is the practice of postponing maintenance activities, such as repairs on both real property — infrastructure — and personal property — equipment and systems — in order to save money, meet budget funding levels, or realign available budget funds. The failure to perform needed repairs could lead to asset deterioration and ultimately asset impairment. Generally, a policy of continued deferred maintenance results in higher costs, higher failure rates, and in some cases, health and safety problems."
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Denver Business Journal
Denver's red-hot hotel room construction pace has slowed considerably from a year earlier.
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R&D Magazine
Almost 48 percent of energy in the U.S. goes to residential and commercial buildings. Zero-energy buildings drastically reduce that energy use by slashing the demand for energy, while supplying the remaining energy needs from renewable energy sources, such as solar panels.
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FMLink
According to a new report from London-based Future Market Insights, the technology behind "chilled beams" has been with us for years; however, during the last decade this technology has gained prominence. Chilled beam technology offers energy savings, mechanical noise reduction and improved indoor air quality.
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Hotel News Now
Over a period of weeks from late August through September 2017, natural disasters have devastated cities on the southeast coast of the United States, especially in Texas and Florida, as well as Mexico, Puerto Rico and the Caribbean islands. Hurricane Harvey made landfall in Texas as a Category 4 storm on 25 August, and since then, two other major hurricanes (Irma and Maria) and a sequence of earthquakes have dealt their destruction.
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Construction Dive
According to an early-October report from the National Real Estate Investor, STR expects hotel demand to increase over the next few years in response to a healthy economy. Jan Freitag, senior vice president of lodging insights for STR told NREI that as long as gross domestic stays near 2 percent, an indicator that U.S. companies will continue with programs of robust business travel, demand for hotel rooms will remain high.
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Los Angeles Times
The idea of putting robots to work in hotels started as a novelty, but is slowly gaining acceptance throughout the industry.
A boutique hotel that opened this month near Los Angeles International Airport has already put two robots to work while a 288-room hotel in San Gabriel plans to employ eight robots when it opens in January.
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IFMA's FMJ Magazine
American management consultant Peter Drucker said he believed "the most important contribution management needs to make in the 21st century is to increase the productivity of knowledge work and the knowledge worker." Half a century later, it seems no one is shouting this sentiment louder than FM professionals.
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