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IFMA's FMJ magazine
With strong implications for human resources, security, safety and IT, the facility management department is an important value-adding part of any organization. However, the first step to public awareness is internal awareness — FMs need to recognize that they are the ones who control the overall story that is told about their department.
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BUILDINGS
The U.S. Department of Energy's Building Performance Database, the nation's largest dataset of energy-related building characteristics, is growing fast — and large.
The database has expanded to include data from over 950,000 residential and commercial buildings. BPD users are retrieving data at an average of 150 user sessions per week.
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IOffice
Your facilities management team is one of your organization’s biggest assets, and your facilities leader is one of the C-suite’s greatest allies. Few individuals have the potential to impact your bottom line, empower your workforce, satisfy employee expectations and increase your organization’s operational efficiency quite as much as the person who heads up facilities management. But how can the C-suite ensure facilities leaders have everything they need to help you meet your business objectives?
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BUILIDINGS
SecureAuth Corporation, a provider of access control systems, released results of an online survey revealing industry perceptions on passwords and authentication and concluded that 69 percent of organizations are likely to do away with passwords within the next five years.
The survey itself was conducted with help from Wakefield Research and involved 200 information technology decision-makers in the U.S.
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Doug Haymore
When we think of maintaining our facilities during the winter months, our first thoughts generally go to removing snow from the parking lot and walkways. That is definitely an important area of focus, as snow and ice have been known to lead to slip and fall injuries. However, there is another component of your property that will need your attention during the cold snowy months — your HVAC units. The winter season is hard on your HVAC units, as they are exposed to harsh elements and end up working extra hard to meet the demands of the cold weather.
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By Suzanne Mason
The goal of the 2016 U.S.-China Tourism Year is to promote travel and tourism between the two countries. While the target of 100 million visitors by 2021 is in sight, the Chinese have begun to assimilate themselves further into the hospitality sector via key business transactions in recent months. Since open tourism dialogue was initiated in 2007, more than 30 million tourists have traveled between the two countries. And as Chinese outbound tourism grows, so do the investors.
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ConstructionWeekOnline
Within our role as facility management service providers, we are often asked this question when reviewing a contract document: Do key performance indicators (KPIs) and service level agreements (SLAs) really work? As an industry, we are fundamentally driven by SLAs and various KPIs, from the most basic to extremely complex.
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Sourceable
Passenger lift destination control systems are already appearing in buildings, but we need to consider universal design and the needs of people with disability in their design.
Don Norman, an academic, author and advocate for human-centered design, suggested there are barriers to the adoption and use of destination control systems.
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Hotel Management
Recently, Hotel Management looked at how technology and the "co-working" trend is affecting hotel lobby design. But how are the latest trends changing how guestrooms look?
"More guestrooms today are equipped with complimentary Wi-Fi, desks with multiple power jacks and USB charging stations," Carson Norcross, founder of Norcross Furniture Company, said. "Desk chairs are being designed to add extra lumbar support for guest's backs." Beyond that, Norcross predicts guestrooms may soon have lounge chairs with a built-in Virtual Reality charging port — or even a VR system.
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PPcorn
The ability to save money in a data center or server room is something that may be more straightforward that you think. These are the three top ways that you can make a data center or server room even more energy efficient.
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