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In senior living facilities, comfort is often the first thing people notice, but what they don’t see can matter even more. Every room carries something invisible: airborne particles, and those particles become part of the daily environment people breathe. Indoor air quality (IAQ) has become a critical focus in senior design. While ventilation and filtration…

  Walmart fell short on many of its environmental pledges for 2025, an outcome it foreshadowed in December 2024. But the world’s largest retailer made demonstrable progress on its carbon footprint: It cut absolute emissions from operations (Scope 1) and electricity (Scope 2) by 7.5 percent to 14.4 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent…

  The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol is extending the timeline for big updates to its corporate carbon accounting standards, which haven’t seen major revisions for more than a decade. The extension reflects both the nonprofit’s deepening partnership with the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the flood of feedback that GHG Protocol received about proposed…

You walk a 200,000-square-foot building, photograph a cracked expansion joint on the roof, a dripping valve in the mechanical room, and a blocked fire exit on the third floor, then move on. Three months later, an insurer asks you to prove you flagged that exit and that a contractor cleared it. You have 80 photos…

When someone faces a serious medical condition, having access to world-class care close to home can make all the difference. In this episode of Facilities in Focus, Mackenna Moralez sits down with Travis Laird, a key leader behind the UT Dell Medical Center, to explore the vision, planning and innovation shaping one of the most…

In a hospital, steam does much of its work out of sight. It moves behind walls, above ceilings and through mechanical rooms, supporting essential functions like heating, humidification, sterilization, hot water and foodservice. As buildings expand, undergo renovations and are reconfigured for new needs; the steam system is often asked to serve conditions it was…