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Severe weather events — such as hurricanes, tornadoes, and flooding — can devastate workplaces, injuring workers and damaging physical infrastructure. As storms increase in frequency and intensity, more facilities find themselves at risk. All facility managers should take severe weather threats seriously and take practical steps to ensure that the infrastructure in their facilities is safe,…

Dive Brief: New York state is offering up to $750,000 in state cost-sharing funding for building and campus decarbonization efforts that use ground-source heat pumps, waste heat recovery, thermal energy storage and other low-emissions technologies. Applications are due July 31. The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority’s Large-Scale Thermal program encourages property owners…

Building services contractors are increasingly taking the lead on data centre projects, according to the Building Engineering Services Association (BESA). Findings from a new report into the largest firms in the sector were backed up by an industry roundtable hosted by the Association, which confirmed that more clients were turning directly to building engineering firms…

The 28,400-square-foot facility will feature spaces to support patients and loved ones during treatment and throughout their outpatient care and monitoring. Sanford Health Fargo has broken ground on the Peltier Lodge, a temporary and long-term lodging facility for patients at the Sanford Roger Maris Cancer Center. The Peltier Lodge, located at the site of the…

Investing in infection prevention can benefit healthcare organizations and patient outcomes. Infection preventionists (IP) are being asked to do more than ever, such as leading behavior change, aligning with organizational strategy and navigating complicated healthcare environments. At Carilion Clinic in Virginia, Maimuna Jatta, the director of infection prevention and control, is reshaping the IP’s role…

Apparel brands should champion the most powerful strategies to lessen their emissions — or at least slow their rate of increase. For starters, switching to renewables across electrified supply chains would go a long way. So would abandoning wasteful fast fashion business models. And yet major companies are mostly ignoring these proven paths, according to…