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Facility Influencer Ken Sandler gives his prediction on where sustainability initiatives will head in the facilities management industry. A complicated tangle of forces is pulling and pushing sustainability in a range of directions on clean energy, climate and sustainability issues. States and cities are enacting new laws covering everything from climate disclosure to net zero…

No accepted criteria exist for defining a surface as clean using microbiologic methods. The cleanliness of a hospital or other healthcare facility should not be defined without indicating the way it was assessed. Studies have shown that a visual assessment against biochemical and microbiological screening of the hospital environment demonstrates that what you can’t see…

Nano Tools for Leaders® — a collaboration between Wharton Executive Education and Wharton’s Center for Leadership and Change Management — are fast, effective tools that you can learn and start using in less than 15 minutes, with the potential to significantly impact your success and the engagement and productivity of the people you lead. Goal Strengthen trust and meaningful human…

Here’s the truth about managing HVAC across multiple sites: by the time a problem lands on your desk, you’re probably already too late. It’s 7pm on a Friday night and you get the call: “It’s 78° in the dining room.” Customers have left. Staff productivity has taken a nose dive. And that emergency truck you’re…

Facilities management is becoming increasingly digital, yet many organizations may still rely on outdated systems that may not be able to weather modern cybersecurity threats. Legacy systems, or older hardware and software that remain in use, can silently expose facilities to significant risks. 4 Cybersecurity Risks of Legacy Systems Despite years or decades of service,…

COP30 spotlights the critical role of tropical forests and the Amazon’s unique biodiversity in global climate regulation. And as the first COP held in the Amazon region, research from Trellis data partner GlobeScan highlights a clear global appetite for climate leadership. Just over half (51 percent) of more than 30,000 people surveyed want their governments…