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  Drinks giant Diageo has announced plans to invest $525,000 in innovations that can monitor and lessen the impact of the climate and water crises on smallholder farms in Africa. The company announced last week it had launched three “challenges,” which would see hundreds of thousands of pounds spent on innovations designed to improve farmers’…

  PlanRadar, a leading digital construction, real estate and facilities management platform, has published a new report on emerging trends set to dominate the global specification community. The Architecture of the Future is the first in a series of specially-produced architecture and construction reports. This important analysis of evolving preferences draws data from 12 countries…

  Long-term planning is essential to keeping campus facilities contemporary. Here are five signs that you’re overdue to complete a new master plan. Facility managers often spend a lot of their days putting out fires and don’t always have the luxury or the freedom to shift from being reactive to proactive. Universities are made up…

  Although summer is only just winding down, it won’t be long until winter has arrived, covering your parking lot in snow and ice. Don’t miss parking lot maintenance as part of your fall maintenance plan. By tackling this part of your outdoor maintenance in the fall, you will avoid the inconvenience and dangers of…

  Over the last few years, the pandemic has affected how we clean to stay safe. The increased use of disinfectants and cleaners has also increased the amount of airborne chemicals. Although facilities have improved their cleaning processes, how we clean buildings directly affects the air quality inside them. Air purification is an emerging form…

Energy Insights Actively monitoring energy usage and maintaining a facility’s system efficiency is essential when seeking energy savings and overall improvement in efficiency. Using a ROC to unite systems management can benefit a facility’s efforts from a remote location and dramatically increase energy efficiency results. ROC’s holistic approach is capable of providing solutions for large…

  Most Kenyans hop on the back of a motorbike taxi, known locally as a boda-boda, to get around town. With 22 million rides per day, it’s a sector that provides an estimated 1 million direct jobs for drivers. A cheaper, faster mode of transportation that can dodge traffic and access hard-to-reach areas, motorbike ridership…

A number of factors can contribute to windows either helping or harming a facility’s energy efficiency efforts Windows are a crucial, though sometimes underrated, part of a facility’s energy efficiency strategy. Windows also dramatically affect occupant health, wellness, and safety. Because windows are often a big investment, and aren’t changed frequently, it’s very important that…

All too often visibility and control is lacking in life safety. Engineers attend sites to report faults when their physical presence is no longer needed. Often, faults are reported without adequate information, resulting in increased engineering downtime and inefficient first-time fixes. Companies providing life safety systems are beginning to recognise gaps in compliance, testing, reporting,…

  The simple answer is yes. Even if you think you don’t like people – and you could be an outlier – most of us need a sense of belonging with the people in our proximal environment. What’s more, over time our behaviour and choices inexorably come to resemble the normative tendencies of those we…