Author: FM College Admin

  In some cases, it makes sense to carry out cleaning and maintenance work after dark. There is less foot and vehicular traffic and fewer distractions and interruptions in most facilities at night, and that can lend itself nicely to a job well done. But, of course, night cleaning brings its own set of specific…

Climate change is disrupting the building and real estate sectors Why are buildings so important when we talk about climate change? Generating nearly 50 percent of global carbon emissions (40 percent in the United States), the building sector has a critical role to play in limiting carbon emissions. Buildings’ embodied carbon — the greenhouse gases…

  Fire Extinguisher Ratings Fire extinguishers are often the first line of defense when it comes to stopping fires while they are still small. A key component of successfully using an extinguisher is ensuring the type of extinguisher is a match for the type of fire. There is the risk of spreading a fire if…

  Healthcare housekeeping (HSK) and environmental service (EVS) work is a hard job. It is also a crucial job. Those two things should be obvious, but that hasn’t always necessarily been the case. “Typically, in the past, the general understanding has been that HSK/EVS are the folks who come in and cleaned up after everybody,”…

  An urgent warning has been issued by the Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) about a potential fire safety weakness in a large number of building ventilation systems. The UK’s leading trade organisation for building engineering services contractors has issued an interim technical bulletin (VH001) ahead of a full update of its industry guidance for…

  . As we talk about defining a smart building, our approach from a design point of view has been, what problems are we solving with this? If we buy technology just for the sake of it, it’s just a wasted investment in many ways. We start by understanding what problems are we solving. And…