Author: FM College Admin

In Fresno, high-speed rail is coming with a history lesson. High-speed rail service will do more than connect California cities to one another. It also will connect at least one of those cities to its distant past. In Fresno, a new high-speed rail station will be located at the same place as the city’s first…

  Arnprior Regional Health (ARH) District & Memorial Hospital leaders needed to address deferred maintenance issues and modernize building controls and facility infrastructure systems at their hospital. They wanted to improve the hospital facility’s indoor environmental quality (IEQ) to support patient care and reduce long-term operating costs. Issues needing attention included inconsistent lighting and significant…

Many condo corporations and individual unit owners are taking advantage of easy-to-access technology and implementing additional security features for the common elements and units. An increasing use of security cameras in and around condo communities has come with more questions and issues condo boards, property managers and condo lawyers are forced to deal with. The…

Topics Frontiers An MIT SMR initiative exploring how technology is reshaping the practice of management.   More in this series In April, Colorado became the first state to mandate that companies protect the privacy of data generated from a person’s brain waves, an action spurred by concerns over the commercial use of wearable devices intended…

Today’s workplaces are always changing. With decentralized offices, increasing visitor numbers, and constant security worries, facilities managers have their hands full. Manual processes and old-school security systems just can’t keep up, leading to vulnerabilities and bottlenecks. Traditional tools create blind spots in data and security, limit space optimization, and hinder effective resource planning. Thankfully, technological…

A new bipartisan bill aims to enhance student well-being by establishing science-based guidelines and regular assessments of indoor air quality in schools nationwide. Before they turn 18, America’s children will have spent about 15,000 hours inside school buildings. Given the tremendously important time spent learning and growing in schools, shouldn’t the buildings enhance students’ health…