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Facility managers should keep these considerations in mind when installing onsite solar on commercial buildings. As more companies execute climate-focused goals to limit greenhouse emissions, reduce their carbon-footprint, and lower energy costs, the use of solar power for commercial buildings is increasing. While the use of solar can have positive impacts on the environment and…

Environmental services managers must be confident they are using a disinfectant that can eliminate a pathogenic virus on a surface. For years, public health experts warned of the possibility of an illness spreading across the globe and killing millions. After all, it had happened before. Now, in addition to worrying about a virus that might…

Lately, cleaners have been fielding a lot of questions about our disinfecting products. It is always good news to have end users taking a close look at cleaning chemistry and asking for products that will make their infection prevention programs more robust. However, we don’t want to over-emphasize disinfection to the detriment of cleaning. Cleaning…

Hospitals are complex facilities with multiple moving parts. Labs, medical device reprocessing (MDR) departments, kitchens, administrative offices, ICUs, operating rooms, waiting rooms and more, all serve an important purpose that keeps the hospital functioning. For a facility that is open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, any unplanned outage or downtime has a…

Colleges are often well-known for their sports teams. From basketball to football, these athletes are given state-of-the-art facilities to practice and train in. However, a new sport growing in popularity on college campuses is esports. Just like athletes in other sports, these club members need the proper space to excel. At Quinnipiac University in Hamden,…

There is no argument against the need to decarbonize our economy if we want an inhabitable planet. Yet the term “net zero” — shorthand for efforts to balance greenhouse emissions going into the atmosphere with those coming out, as well as the movement to get more organizations working on it — generates a lot of…