Keeping your building safe and dry
While we continue to experience a mix of winter and spring, melting snow and extra precipitation often cause flooding and water damage. In order to minimize that damage, maintenance managers need to know how to decrease the risk of moisture and mould, where to look...
How Facilities Management Is Shaping the State of Corporate Sustainability
Every year, Atrius shares its State of Corporate Sustainability report, which gathers responses from facilities, energy, and sustainability professionals to understand the trends and challenges these teams and their organizations currently face. With sustainability...
Connected Access for All: Best vs. Common Practices
Today more than ever, facility managers are challenged to figure out how to best deploy mobile access within a building, so that employees and tenants can use a smartphone or smart watch as a new type of “key” to unlock places, spaces, and things within a facility....
Maximizing HVAC Efficiency: The Role of Destratification Fans
Effective management of indoor temperatures while minimizing energy consumption is a constant priority for facility managers across various industries. Temperature stratification – where warm air accumulates near the ceiling while cooler air remains at lower levels –...
Surface Preparation for Facilities Managers
Two months after opening, the W.E.B Du Bois library at the University of Massachusetts Amherst began spalling, a phenomenon where a building sheds brick chips. There are various urban legends about why this happened but the most realistic is that the architect...
Birds and Buildings: Finding Lighting Solutions
Electric lighting for buildings, roadways and parking lots can create problems for migrating birds As winter turns into spring, there is one universal harbinger of the new season, regardless of regional climates – the return of abundant daylight. More natural light...
Ground Broken on Centra Langhorne Medical Center
The new medical office building is slated to open in late 2025. Remedy Medical Properties and its partner Kayne Anderson Real Estate have broken ground on the Centra Langhorne Medical Center, a new 130,000-square-foot medical office building (MOB) near Centra...
Technology Integration Within Healthcare Facilities: What to Look For
Technology is not going anywhere and facility managers need to be aware of how operations will change. It is no secret that new and emerging technologies are revolutionizing industries, and healthcare is no different. Enhancing design efficiency and decision-making in...
Security Resides In PLC Run Mode
Today there’s a whole industry dedicated to reducing cybersecurity risk, including standards, guidelines, frameworks, tools, and subject-matter experts. Ultimately the organization owns the risk and is best placed to manage it. ISA/IEC62443, the only consensus-based...
Demystifying carbon offsets vs direct reductions
Many companies are striving to achieve climate neutrality, which involves bringing their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions down to net zero on an annual basis. But most cannot immediately reduce their emissions to that level and will need several years to invest in the...