IF you build it, will they come? The problem of staff respite in healthcare facilities

IF you build it, will they come? The problem of staff respite in healthcare facilities

  Architects and designers have long argued for the value of respite spaces in healthcare facilities. We often discuss their value for patients, but they’re especially valuable for staff. The Need for Respite. The fact is healthcare workers are under a tremendous amount of stress. The numbers speak for themselves. In 2021, 61% of physicians…

Back to Basics: Preparing Your Facility for Power Outages

Back to Basics: Preparing Your Facility for Power Outages

Back to Basics is an article series that highlights important, but possibly overlooked, information facilities management professionals should know.  Facilities management professionals should ensure that their facilities are adequately prepared in the event of a power outage, which is usually a sudden loss of power. It is important for them to ensure that employees, vendors,…

How LEED Tackles Climate Change

How LEED Tackles Climate Change

  Third-party certification systems like LEED and LEED Zero are crucial to stemming the tide of climate change. Here’s why. It’s been a challenging summer. Most of the country has experienced hotter than average temperatures. Energy costs are climbing. Drought conditions have led to water restrictions in parts of the country. All of these challenges…

Move To The Proactive Jungle

Move To The Proactive Jungle

  Choosing lifestyle over pay has always been a characteristic of millennials and the pandemic has increased this tendency in all other generations. People are far less willing to accept dull, dirty, dark, and dangerous conditions for more pay. In fact, they often take jobs for significantly less pay to have predictable schedules, better hours,…