Diageo launches climate solutions fund for African smallholder farms

Diageo launches climate solutions fund for African smallholder farms

  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’…

Adapting to climate change now top priority for specifiers

Adapting to climate change now top priority for specifiers

  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…

5 Indications Your Campus Needs a Master Facilities Plan

5 Indications Your Campus Needs a Master Facilities Plan

  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…

Remote operations center delivers energy savings

Remote operations center delivers energy savings

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…