Tackling Humidity Challenges in Coastal Schools
Humidity poses significant challenges to communities situated along coastal regions where the influence of moisture-laden air from lakes and oceans is pronounced. Humidity levels are exacerbated in those regions once the warmer temperatures arrive in late spring and...
Linking collaboration across the value chain to get to circularity
How can companies most efficiently gain traction toward circularity? Many discussions tend to focus on closing gaps in the physical materials flow, such as improving the design of packaging to reduce waste and increase recyclability or integrating more post-consumer...
How Green Hydrogen Is Critical to Electrifying Everything
As April 2024 wound up, the Biden administration released rules that aim to expedite infrastructure projects and require federal agencies to get stricter in weighing the potential impacts on the climate and low-income communities before approving projects like...
Vancouver opens Passive House cultural hub
The City of Vancouver opened a cultural hub in the downtown South area that is also the tallest certified commercial Passive House development in Canada. 221A Artist Society External will operate the 21,000-square-foot space as a shared artist production,...
How to lead with questions in cognitively diverse ways
Questions are powerful. They can allow for limited or open-ended responses. They can be finite in seeking detail or endlessly provocative. Asking the right questions for the context, the right questions for the person to whom they are directed, and the right...
Addressing link between climate and health will lower emissions, create resilient care systems
As an industry, health care is one of the largest contributors to global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions with more than 4 percent of emissions attributed to the sector. One reason for such high GHG emissions is that hospitals are energy-intensive systems that require...
Revitalizing Campus Spaces: Sustainable Initiatives and Educational Oasis
The University of Richmond’s Eco-Corridor, an 18-acre restoration, was an old road, previously ignored, a “place of possibility,” said Rob Andrejewski, the university’s director of sustainability. Opened in 2020, the project includes an extensive stream restoration,...
Why Are Healthy Buildings Important?
During the opening keynote session of Facilities Management Advisor’s FM Now: Healthy Buildings virtual summit, “Connecting the Dots: Moving Toward an Integrated Approach to Healthy and Sustainable Reporting for Buildings,” the topic of healthy buildings was...
5 key roles needed to comply with SEC, EU and California climate disclosure regulations
New regulation in the U.S. and abroad has ushered in a wave of new roles around carbon reporting and disclosures. Originally, the driver was the much anticipated Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) climate disclosure rule. However, given the recent stay on the...
10 spaces that are no longer optional to create a great workplace
Everyone wants to know what amenities would bring people back to the office. As employees first started returning, many companies focused on spaces to bring people together, such as social spaces that spur casual interactions and create community. Food amenities...