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Retail-to-medical conversions create challenges and opportunities in infrastructure innovation to reimagine access, flexibility and the patient experience. Across the country, vacated retail spaces, such as shuttered big-box chains and former grocery stores, are being reinvented into vibrant, community-based healthcare clinics. Facilitating these retail-to-medical conversions — from thoughtfully planning the design strategy and engineering coordination to…

Reflecting changing currents in engineering design and material availability, the American Concrete Institute has updated its 318 standard to ACI 318-25, with a new sustainability guide and updated information on deep foundations for seismic design, shear friction, and performance-based wind design. The ACI 318 structural concrete standard for buildings and non-building structures—which serves as a…

Uncertainty around plans by major car manufacturers to phase out internal combustion engines is one of several shortcomings undermining the sector’s transition to net zero, said researchers who conducted a detailed analysis of five leading automotive companies. The team from the NewClimate Institute and Carbon Market Watch, two European nonprofits, also highlighted several developments by…

Editor’s note: FM Perspectives are industry op-eds. The views expressed are the authors’ and do not necessarily reflect those of Facilities Management Advisor. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, located between California and Hawaii, is a floating monument to our collective inaction. It continues to grow, fed relentlessly by the 20 million tons of plastic waste that flow…

  By understanding benefits and challenges and avoiding myths and mistakes, facilities managers can finally tap into the power of data from key systems and platforms. Each day, facilities data becomes more critical to the successful management of institutional and commercial buildings. Big Data arrived in facilities more than a decade ago, and since then,…

Manufacturers discuss how evolving codes, technologies and care settings shape healthcare backup power strategies. When it comes to healthcare, a power outage isn’t just a minor hiccup—it’s a potential risk to patient safety and care continuity. However, not all healthcare facilities are created equal when it comes to their backup power requirements. Each setting brings…