Author: FM College Admin

The opinions expressed here by Trellis expert contributors are their own, not those of Trellis.​ For a decade, corporate climate action has been described as largely “voluntary.” But that’s starting to change. Between 2018 and 2025 an explosion of corporate climate commitments led to more than two-thirds of the world’s largest companies setting a net…

It’s all well and good eulogising about the technological benefits of incorporating the burgeoning Internet of Things (IoT) within property management but do the numbers stack up? What is the likely return on investment (ROI) of shifting from the existing reactive model to something distinctly more proactive and predictive? A recent six-month project at a…

Performance improvement plans may seem negative to recipients, but they are actually structured to set employees up for success. Few documents carry more baggage than the performance improvement plan (PIP). For many employees, a PIP signals a formal step toward termination. For supervisors, it can feel like one more HR hurdle in an already demanding…

The Circular Supply Chain Coalition (CSCC) is laying the foundation for a global network of regional recycling nerve centers that would “mine” critical minerals from e-waste. It is pitching the effort as industrial risk management that sidesteps extractive mining. Tariffs, geopolitical pressures and anxiety over access to valuable metals and rare earths have accelerated business’s…

Meeting operational and strategic goals is essential in FM, but explains Matt Garner, Director at Litmus FM, team development is also a key priority for the sector In facilities management, we are rightly focused on systems. Compliance frameworks, asset registers, performance dashboards, KPIs and audit trails dominate our conversations – and for good reason. Buildings…

For administrators and trustees of higher education institutions, rising construction costs and other market forces combined with shrinking annual budgets mean putting the brakes on new construction projects. Capital investments these days are focused more often on making the most of existing campus facilities, with splashy new athletic centers, technology hubs, and other prestige projects…