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Hotel Management
"How do you feel about the economy?"
Mark Woodworth, senior managing director at CBRE, asked this question to a silent crowd of hospitality professionals. Behind him a presentation slide addressed the audience with another question: Is the end near?
Woodworth was among the first speakers at this year's HX: The Hotel Experience conference (formerly the International Hotel/Motel & Restaurant Show), and the recent presidential election could not be ignored. Moreover, he insisted how operators and travelers perceive the future of the U.S. will affect how that future plays out.
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GreenBiz
Thanks to improved wireless networking technology and standardized communication protocols, it's easier than ever to collect data from sensors. Plus, silicon chips continue to get cheaper, faster and better and can be located in valves, actuators, thermostats and wall outlets to provide more memory and faster computing.
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The Architects Journal
The generic hotel has fallen out of favor as guests seek an "authentic" Airbnb-style experience, writes Aukett Swanke's Nicholas de Klerk.
Research in architectural practice is a vastly underestimated and, consequently, undervalued process. There are practices – still a visible minority — that have developed prolonged commitment to advancing specific approaches, typologies, material use and applications.
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Richard P. Payant
 At 10 a.m. on a Wednesday, the building receptionist for a large organization comprised of several adjoining buildings receives a bomb threat. The receptionist immediately notifies her supervisor, the director of security. He informs the organization's leadership, the director of facilities management, the public relations officer and local authorities. After some discussion of the specifics of the threat, the director of security believes it to be credible.
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Green Lodging News
It's no secret that the concerns towards the indoor air we breathe are growing, and as a result, people are doing something about it. That’s great news, because according to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), most Americans spend up to 90 percent of their time indoors. The EPA has also named indoor air quality as one of the top five health threats in the United States.
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Hotel Management
Though no one is clear exactly how far the industry has fallen on the downward half of the current cycle, analysts have taken to assuring operators that hospitality is going to stick a "soft" landing when it bottoms out this time around compared to the resounding crash of 2008. At last week's HX: The Hotel Experience event in New York City, during a panel discussion between members of the International Society of Hospitality Consultants on what the current economic climate says for capital expenditures, amenities and developments, incongruity was in the air.
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Facility Executive
Cooling towers are a relatively inexpensive and reliable way of expelling heat from a number of industrial processes, including nuclear and thermal power plants, petroleum refineries, petrochemical plants, food processing plants, as well as HVAC systems. For facility management professionals, the question presents itself: How large should a cooling tower be to efficiently handle a specific application?
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Sourceable
How do you plan the management and maintenance of a green infrastructure asset when there is little to no information available about how different green infrastructure systems and plants behave on roofs and walls in your area?
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Construction Dive
The market for smart building technologies is expected to grow 34 percent annually over the next five years, according to a recent report on how interest in smart city development and the Internet of Things, along with their bottom-line potential for companies, is helping to fuel greater automation in the built environment. By 2021, the total market size for smart building technologies is forecast to reach US$24.73 billion.
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Facilitiesnet
Aerial work platforms enable front-line technicians to perform essential tasks in hard-to-reach areas of institutional and commercial facilities. New-generation lifts are expanding this reach, in addition to offering greater lift capacity, ease of operation and safety. Beyond ensuring that lifts give technicians the access they require, maintenance and engineering managers also must ensure technicians use the equipment safely.
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