Author: FM College Admin

Workplace water fountains can help with employee comfort and increase value of property. Commercial building owners and operators have been struggling to maintain or add value to their properties since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. With many companies adopting work-from-home and eventually hybrid office scenarios — some indefinitely — the role of commercial office…

Getting employees to willingly return to the office requires facility executives to rethink how their workspaces feel, look and function. As employers across the country attempt to pull people back into the office, they’re encountering no small measure of resistance from employees who have fully embraced remote working and who are pushing back against the…

The focus on sustainable landscape solutions and water conservation led to the creation of Lake Park. SoFi Stadium and Hollywood Park, a near 300-acre sports and entertainment destination, worked with Studio MLA, a landscape architecture and urban design studio, to create a civic and environmentally conscious landscape across three key areas: water capture and reuse,…

The European Union is embarking on an experiment that will expand its climate policies to imports for the first time. It’s called a carbon border adjustment, and it aims to level the playing field for the EU’s domestic producers by taxing energy-intensive imports such as steel and cement that are high in greenhouse gas emissions…

Most climate tech innovations (at least the ones that crowd my inbox every day) fall clearly into the mitigation category, in the form of software and applied technology that aim to draw down atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions. But an undercurrent of discussion last week during Climate Week NYC centered…

The climate crisis is getting worse, impacts are intensifying and their effects are already being felt across communities, businesses and markets globally, resulting in starvation, poverty and increased financial risks. That is the stark warning from three new reports this week that all pointed to the same stark conclusion — the climate crisis is already…