Do you buy your cleaning supplies in bulk?
As companies look for ways to trim their expenses, buying cleaning supplies in bulk may be one way to cut costs over the long haul. There are a few advantages to choosing larger quantities for your commercial cleaning supplies, including: Purchasing larger...
Connecting the Dots: How Tech Can Boost Visibility and Autonomy in School Operations
In 2018, a third of Baltimore’s schools closed due to heating issues. In 2019, schools in Providence, R.I., faced leaking sewage and contaminated drinking water. These aren’t signs of low funding—average U.S. public school spending per pupil actually rose 8.9% to...
Palomar Health and Lifepoint Health to Break Ground on New Behavioral Health Facility
The Palomar Health Behavioral Health Institute is a two-story, 84,700-square-foot hospital with four 30-bed units. As the demand for behavioral health resources continues to rise, Palomar Health announces the groundbreaking of the Palomar Health Behavioral Health...
How is Artificial Intelligence Being Used in Healthcare Architecture?
AI presents many potential uses in designing healthcare facilities, though it still requires human oversight. Artificial intelligence represents the advent of many different possibilities for the world, let alone healthcare. Like all markets, healthcare is bound to be...
What are Lean Practices for Facility Maintenance?
These practices focus on reducing wasted resources and quicker turnaround times. August 22, 2024 Facilities managers already have a lot on their plates, spending loads of time on tasks both big and small. Sometimes, this leads to too much time being spent on certain...
Energy storage becomes a planning consideration
Energy storage gets new prominence in the most recent update of Ontario’s rules for land use planning. The 2024 iteration of the provincial planning statement (PPS), set to take effect on October 20, explicitly lists energy storage systems among the options that...
How Digitalization Is Reshaping the Construction Industry
Nobody wishes to be left behind. And the fact is, digitalization is the future. To propel your organization forward, going digital is the best route toward safer, more efficient and cost-effective operations. But what happens when organizations choose to delay or...
Design and Construction Strategies for Challenging Moisture Conditions
Buckling of wood structural panel sheathing such as plywood or oriented strand board (OSB) occasionally results when increased moisture conditions cause the wood to expand. Such buckling may occur between supports or between nails along supports. Although structural...
Do High School Restrooms Make the Grade with Students?
It’s back-to-school time, and this year a survey got the “deets” about teens’ handwashing habits, restroom evaluations, and whether or not they stay home from school when they’re sick. The Healthy Handwashing Survey, conducted by Bradley Company, connected with 1,012...
HVAC Systems Fail at Behavioral Health Center in Phoenix
Nearly 100 patients had to be transferred to other facilities. St. Luke’s Behavioral Health Center in Phoenix, Arizona, recently went without air conditioning for several days, forcing the transfer of nearly 100 patients to other facilities, according to AZ Family. A...