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Hydronic system insights By lowering the heating temperature on boilers, water to water heat pumps, and heat recovery chillers, efficiency goals can be met. Lowering the heating temperature on water to water heat pumps and heat recovery chillers has a dramatic effect on their efficiency. As buildings move toward decarbonization and electrification, it is increasingly…

Hybrid work has roiled the real estate market—and it’s here to stay, according to new research from the McKinsey Global Institute. On this episode of The McKinsey Podcast, McKinsey senior partners Aditya Sanghvi and Jonathan Woetzel chat with global editorial director Lucia Rahilly about how the persistence of the pivot to working from home has…

Information bottlenecks can be especially problematic for both security and facilities management professionals, who need to work together to respond to emergencies. During Facilities Management Advisor’s FM Now: Emergency Preparedness virtual summit, guest speaker David Trask, National Director from session sponsor ARC Facilities, gave a presentation on September 26. The presentation was given during an…

Regenerative buildings are necessarily the next step in the progression of designing, building, and operating facilities. Here’s what you need to know. The term “regenerative building” is a little bit of a misnomer. Of course, the term doesn’t mean that buildings themselves – their walls, roofs, materials – regenerate. Rather, a regenerative building refers to…

Back to Basics is an article series that highlights important, but possibly overlooked, information facilities management professionals should know. Did you know that one dripping faucet could waste 3,000 gallons of water per month in your office facility, while a running toilet could waste 10 times as much? Using a rate of $0.00295 per gallon,…

Everything is designed. There used to be a caveat to this statement of “except nature.” However, with the onset of genetic engineering, we even have ways of influencing the design of nature as well. With this new power, we need to think deeply about the intention behind design. Architect Bill McDonough advocates for design that…