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The Associated Press via ABC News
The bacteria that causes Legionnaires' disease was found in rooms of a hotel in a popular Missouri tourist town associated with Mark Twain, and health officials said that one of three people who contracted the disease after staying there has died.
Missouri health officials and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention launched an investigation last month of the Best Western on the River Hotel in Hannibal.
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Facility Dude
Just because temperatures are plummeting, frost is forming on your windows and snow is starting to fill your parking lot doesn't mean things can't heat up fast. During the winter, you still need to be vigilant about making sure your facility is following fire safety standards and that you and your staff are prepared to deal with an emergency event.
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Area Development
The acronym BIM is used for a variety of different but related definitions: building information modeling, building information model and building information management are well known examples. The tools we use around BIM are often referred to as BIM tools, BIM-modeling tools or, in short, BIM systems.
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Slate
When the sports journalist Dan Wetzel checked into his Charlotte, North Carolina, hotel room last Saturday, he was troubled to find it was missing one crucial feature: A desk. And as he soon learned, it wasn't an isolated oversight. Lamenting its absence in an essay on his personal blog, he claims that its omission is part of a chainwide redesign, one that supposedly caters to the alleged values of millennials, who apparently want nothing to do with desks.
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Facility Executive
The complexity of managing energy expenses is at an all-time high. This increasingly tangled web is influenced by numerous external factors, including thousands of different rate structures, the ongoing rollout of energy data disclosure ordinances, and investor pressure to report on sustainability metrics. Internal organizational issues also present challenges: Lack of accountability for energy management, hard-to-access (or inaccessible) data, competing priorities, multiple facilities with bills from different utilities and on different timetables, variance in procurement contracts, and skill set shortcomings.
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Energy Manager Today
As 2015 comes to a close and the New Year begins, organizations begin assessing budgets to search for ways to control or cut costs across the business. Energy usage is a tremendous expense in many industries, where electricity and utilities account for big dollars spent every year, so a move to more energy-efficient technologies could provide tremendous financial benefits.
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Energy Manager Today
New technology enables retrofits to be done more economically and have a bigger impact, according to Facility Executive. The story, written by JLL's Energy and Sustainability team Global Chairman Dan Probst, says that cloud computing and real-time data and analytics, sub-metering, wireless sensors and other emerging techniques have made retrofits a much more viable option.
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USA Today
When was the last time you slept in a set of bunk beds? Was it that summer you were sent to swim camp? Last Christmas, when you had to share a room with your 12-year-old cousins? Or in your $1,100-per-night Andaz hotel suite? According to the Wall Street Journal, bunk beds are becoming sought-after amenities in luxury hotels, as properties in popular tourist, resort or festival destinations attempt to find ways to compete with the appeal of Airbnb.
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IHS Electronics360
Smart buildings have made news for several years, and some advances have helped considerably to improve energy efficiency, safety and convenience. Such improvements have made buildings smarter, but not really intelligent. Intelligence requires access to large amounts of data, as well as algorithms that can make sense of the seemingly random data points produced. These intelligent buildings could significantly improve efficiency, quality of life and reduce operating costs — and it's not just science fiction.
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Sustainable Cities Collective
As environmental standards for the built environment continue to become increasingly relevant and more frequently pursued, the once small pool of available building certifications has grown into a plethora of tools each with slightly different goals and degrees of intensity. This surge in options can help broaden the lens of sustainability and allow many different groups of professionals to simultaneously research, pursue and refine criteria for sustainable improvement.
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