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Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is a major tool the Biden administration is taking advantage of to help accelerate the country’s decarbonization. Policies like the Environmental Protection Agency’s power plant rules requiring fossil fuel power plants install carbon capture and sequestration/storage (CCS) technology or shut down by 2039 and the newest round of funding for…

Creating a workplace atmosphere that promotes health and wellness is good for employees. It can also boost productivity and improve the staff’s mental health. As a facilities manager, you can implement changes that support wellness initiatives through ergonomic design choices and environmentally friendly changes. It also means caring for your own health while you develop…

The 12-story hospital is expected to open in late 2028. Harris Health System, UTHealth Houston, Harris County and City of Houston officials were on hand for the groundbreaking ceremony for a new $1.6 billion hospital on the Harris Health Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital Campus in northeast Houston. The 12-story hospital – slated to become the…

Six core components for cleaning and disinfecting the bed and 36 inches around it. In 2020, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published a document to address the cleaning and disinfecting of the “near patient” surfaces in healthcare facilities. In the document, entitled “Reduce Risk from Surfaces,” the CDC says there is…

Proposal would help Illinois avoid hundreds of millions of dollars in deferred maintenance costs   May 15, 2024 Deferred maintenance in most institutional and commercial facilities never seems to stop and rarely slows down. The result is that facilities managers and executives must decide at some point whether the most cost-effective move is to keep repairing…

In a new book titled Decision-Driven Analytics: Leveraging Human Intelligence to Unlock the Power of Data, professors and behavioral scientists Bart De Langhe and Stefano Puntoni challenge the idea that our decisions should be driven by data. Rather, they argue that the power of data can only be realized by putting data in the background….