Electrical: Circuit Protection, part 1: Overview of electrical protection, standards

Electrical: Circuit Protection, part 1: Overview of electrical protection, standards

Understanding electrical and circuit protection requirements will enable the engineer to design the safest and most reliable electrical distribution systems for buildings. Courtesy: CFE Media and Technology Electrical protection insights The electrical engineer is responsible for many different distribution systems in buildings and it is crucial to know what is needed, how much is needed…

How to design for adaptive reuse: Don’t reinvent the wheel

How to design for adaptive reuse: Don’t reinvent the wheel

In a very short period of time, our economy has changed. Now more than ever, it’s important to consider new and viable approaches to how we all do business. One potential opportunity is adaptive reuse, specifically reusing empty big-box retail and malls, many of which sit unused or underutilized across the country. After the 2008…

Faces of Facilities: Carolyn McGary from FM Pipeline Team Inc.

Faces of Facilities: Carolyn McGary from FM Pipeline Team Inc.

Carolyn McGary, a self-proclaimed Wonder Woman of FM with nearly 20 years of experience, is an educator and the national director of FM Pipeline Team Inc. The nonprofit organization is dedicated to fostering the next generation of facilities managers and helping fill the FM talent gap. McGary joined the FM Pipeline Team as co-director shortly…

Time Barriers: Layering Security Systems for Safe School Design

Time Barriers: Layering Security Systems for Safe School Design

The Partner Alliance for Safer Schools (PASS) K–12 guidelines recommends a multilayered approach to safe school design. This approach improves the overall effectiveness of a full security plan by providing multiple time barriers to delay violent intruders and creating redundancies should an aspect of one layer fail for any reason. In addition to creating layers…

Preventing Mold in Healthcare Facilities

Preventing Mold in Healthcare Facilities

Mold should always be on top of managers’ minds. Hospitals and other healthcare facilities have the much-earned reputation of being a clean and safe place for patients and residents to come to every single day. If something is out of place, it can easily tarnish everything that the facility has worked hard for and potentially…

Getting your hard floors back-to-school ready

Getting your hard floors back-to-school ready

It’s almost that time of year again when schools reopen and are flooded with traffic, trampling over floors during all sorts of weather. The summer provides custodial staff with some of the time they need to get floors back in shape and ready for the next school year. In fact, it’s estimated that 50 per…