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Lodging Engineer
The fire incident in mid-June at London's Grenfell Tower followed a month later by the Marco Polo Condominium fire in Honolulu resulted in significant life loss and injuries. Each incident delivered hard lessons to those concerned with operating any style of residential facility including hotels. Grenfell Towers is a landmark incident as a small fire in a high-rise residential building, apparently originating with a household appliance, led to significant involvement of combustible exterior cladding.
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News-Medical
Traditional water treatment efforts have focused on water leaving the treatment plant, but a large number of recent waterborne disease outbreaks in the U.S. can be traced to plumbing systems in buildings. Legionnaires disease outbreaks in New York City and toxic levels of lead in Flint, Michigan have raised questions about how to manage risks in aging water systems.
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Successful Meetings
In today's hyper-connected world, hotel guests, including your attendees, are not easy to please. Their expectations are high. Their appetites, eclectic. And their fingers are ever-busy, hammering on smartphones, sharing every experience — especially unpleasant and disappointing ones — with anyone who will listen.
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Buildings
Can you keep your organization up and running during a crisis if your facility is unreachable? A truly comprehensive crisis plan needs to account for both pre-incident emergency preparation and how to ensure business continuity during and after the emergency period. Review your emergency procedures today to make sure your organization can stay afloat even if employees can't get to work.
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Facility Executive
No standard exists for determining when ice accumulation is severe enough that it will endanger workers. Most times, safety managers and supervisors must use their own judgment to alter work practices based on changes in weather conditions. We recommend that you plan ahead for anticipated hazards so you'll be ready when conditions start to get dicey.
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Green Lodging News
Forty years ago, if you didn't see it, you weren't worried. Today, given advances in science and technology, we now understand that gases and micro-pollutants in our air — even those we can't detect by sight or smell — can impact our health and well-being. Air quality is no longer something we can judge by our senses alone, especially indoors.
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Energy Manager Today
Significant variations in climate, economic power, building traditions and public perception/attitude towards climate change have resulted in vastly different adoption rates of energy efficient building materials and technologies in countries around the world, a new study shows. Energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions of new buildings in Europe have been reduced dramatically as a result of a coherent energy policy, the enforcement of strict building codes and the adoption of more energy-efficient technologies but in contrast, different perceptions of the risks of climate change in the U.S. have resulted in a less coherent energy policy and less stringent building codes.
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Green Lodging News
A bill to modify Energy Star could weaken a program with decades of proven benefits, Alliance to Save Energy President Kateri Callahan told Congress in a hearing recently. The Energy Star Reform Act of 2017 Discussion Draft was considered before a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee. "The old adage, 'if it ain’t broke, don't fix it' applies very well to today's Energy Star program and should be the test against which the subcommittee determines the content of any bill designed to change or improve the program," Callahan says in her written testimony.
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BUILDINGS
The numerous amounts of chemicals used throughout a building can be head spinning. The product labels may tell you one thing, while other authoritative sources claim the same cleaning solution is poisonous.
The Cleaning Product Right to Know Act of 2017, a recent bill signed recently into California law clears up this confusion, becoming the first state to require ingredient labeling on both product labels and online for cleaning products. Moreover, it may create a domino effect for the rest of United States.
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USA Today
Jay Stein, CEO of Dream Hotel Group, says his company was instrumental in starting the rooftop bar craze.
"We were the first to do a velvet rope, to have a line around the block," he says, while sitting at the Arizona Biltmore during the annual Lodging Conference.
The Dream Midtown and Dream Downtown properties in New York City routinely have people queuing up for access to elevators that will take them to a trendy bar with nearly 360-degree views of Manhattan.
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