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Prioritizing the safety of patients and staff while modernizing critical facilities requires foresight, flexibility and most importantly, communication. To deliver capital projects in operational hospitals and other healthcare facilities is one of the most complex challenges in the construction industry. Unlike ground-up construction, these projects take place in environments where people are being cared for…

(Photo: Adobe Stock / Vladyslav) Millions in damage. Major operational downtime. Potential injury and even loss of life. These are only a few consequences of a significant fire in a commercial facility. According to the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), over a five-year period between 2017–2021, more than 36,000 fire events occurred at industrial or…

The Mid-Currituck Bridge, a long-planned new crossing to North Carolina’s Outer Banks, may be inching from the drawing board to construction, having recently received two key state environmental permits. However, the estimated $1-billion project still faces multiple uncertainties, including a yet-to-be-defined funding plan and significant local opposition. First proposed more than 50 years ago, the…

Imagine this: your property appears on the 5 o’clock news after another parking lot incident, or a shopper posts a video online describing your center as unsafe. In an instant, perception becomes reality, and your brand equity takes the hit. Parking lot security is more than a convenience. It directly affects foot traffic, tenant satisfaction,…

If you can’t see it, you can’t manage it—and that means you’ll pay for it. When facilities teams try to manage critical physical assets like HVAC and refrigeration remotely without visibility into performance, the losses go beyond energy waste. They ripple through productivity, revenue and retention in ways that most companies fail to measure until…

China’s recently inaugurated Chantai Yangtze River Bridge, whose 1,208-m-long main span secures it the title of the world’s longest cable-stayed bridge, came with its share of engineering challenges. “It has set three world records: the largest span cable-stayed bridge, the most significant span highway and railway dual-purpose steel truss arch bridge, and the largest continuous-length…