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Green Lodging News
Experts agree that, at any one time, about 15 to 20 percent of toilets are leaking. They leak for many different reasons — faulty fill valves, bad fill valve seals, corrosion and faulty flappers are some examples. Leaks often go undetected by guests, housekeepers and maintenance personnel. One leaky toilet can lose about 75,000 gallons of water annually. This adds significantly to water and sewage costs. In some instances leaks can result in flooding — an even more expensive scenario for a hotel owner.
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CleanLink
Have you ever wondered what happens when a mold removal specialist gets called to a mold-damaged facility? The Institute of Inspection, Cleaning and Restoration Certification shares five steps a mold removal specialist takes when conducting mold remediation.
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BUILDINGS
Lighting is one of the easiest places to cut energy use in many facilities, but finding the right place to start a retrofit or relamping project can be a real hurdle.
That's where a lighting audit comes in. It may be time-consuming, but identifying the biggest energy hogs and dealing with them first will pay dividends in the form of cost savings that you can use to finance future efficiency projects. Ensure your audit's success by starting off on the right foot.
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Energy Manager Today
LED lighting is revolutionizing the lighting industry and creating completely new market conditions. However, unlocking its full potential has been hampered by a lack of simple and easy-to-install industry standard solutions enabling personal control, energy conservation and compliance with increasingly stringent building standards.
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Data Center Knowledge
Traditionally, data center managers ensured uptime with redundancy. That way, if something failed, there would be a cascading hierarchy of redundant systems to take over. That's great for peace of mind, but not great for the bottom line — especially as data centers are expanding and operational costs increasing. Enter data center infrastructure management monitoring.
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FacilitiesNet
An important part of any elevator modernization is replacement of the cab interior finishes. It provides visual confirmation that the reduced service levels during the extensive modernization process brought substantial elevator improvements. By enhancing a building's image, it should also help attract and retain tenants. And because hoist machines have maximum design limits on suspended load, aesthetic upgrades influence whether a hoist machine can be retained or must be replaced.
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IFMA's FMJ magazine
The job of a facility manager is vast and seemingly endless. For many facility managers, there is a solution that provides immediate benefits: Managed services. But what does managed services actually mean, and how can you tell if an integration company is not just using the word as a marketing tool?
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FMLink
Recovery of refrigerant is mandatory. It is important to follow all Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) safety guidelines when working around machinery and refrigerants. If the refrigeration system contains more than 50 pounds of refrigerant and has an annual leak rate of 15 percent or more for comfort cooling, or a 35 percent leak rate for commercial refrigeration, the EPA has mandated that it must be repaired.
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FacilitiesNet
The EPA's Water Sense program offers resources designed to help managers incorporate metering technology into water-conservation strategies in their facilities. Tracking a facility's total water use, as well as specific end uses, is a key component of water-efficiency efforts. Accurately measuring water use can help facility managers identify areas for targeted reductions and to track progress from water-efficiency upgrades.
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Facility Executive
In today's business climate, operational efficiency is key. Organizations are continually looking to be more efficient across all areas of their business as they strive to maximize profitability and, where possible, to simultaneously garner a wide range of ancillary benefits, which often includes improvements in energy efficiency and sustainability. To that end, commercial facilities have long been a target of operational efficiency, and energy management is a big part of that endeavor.
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