2022 FGI guidelines have arrived: What do they mean?

2022 FGI guidelines have arrived: What do they mean?

  FGI Guidelines insights The changes outlined in the 2022 FGI guidelines are crucial for planning the design of a facility. The guidelines eventually become enforceable as state laws, codes, rules or regulations when they are adopted by state or federal agencies. The 2022 guidelines emphasize person-centered care and aim to benefit multipurpose patient care….

How to de-risk low-carbon investments

How to de-risk low-carbon investments

  Rapidly growing emerging markets and developing countries need new infrastructure: roads, power plants, water systems. There is an opportunity to develop this infrastructure in a sustainable and climate-compatible way — or not. The path we choose could make or break the chance at a decarbonized, sustainable and climate-resilient future. But building all this infrastructure requires…

Motion Amplification: Seeing Is Believing

Motion Amplification: Seeing Is Believing

  In more than forty years of industrial reliability and maintenance involvement, I’ve seen many predictive technologies go from crude (yet functional) to becoming a game changer. Motion Amplification is one of those. We’ve been using it in our RMC training factory, and it has been easy to apply for demonstrating troubleshooting and integration into…

Everybody Factors Into Workplace Safety

Everybody Factors Into Workplace Safety

  Workplace safety is something everyone agrees is important, yet there can be significant differences in the perception of how adequate safety measures are and the optimum amount of emphasis they are given in an organization. According to a recent electrical-safety survey, conducted by Fluke Corp., sentiment that workers are most responsible for safety has…

Victoria new buildings to be zero carbon by 2025

Victoria new buildings to be zero carbon by 2025

Victoria will require all new construction to be zero carbon by 2025, part of its accelerated climate action plan to achieve an 80 per cent reduction in community greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. This new requirement will take effect following the introduction of BC Building Code carbon pollution standards later this year. By July 2025,…

What healthcare IoT could mean for hospital design

What healthcare IoT could mean for hospital design

  The number of internet-enabled devices in everyday use has skyrocketed in the last several years. In 2018, there were about 2.4 networked devices per capita. By 2023, that number is expected to be 3.6, which is around 29.3 billion internet-enabled devices around the world. While many will be smartphones, tablets and other personal devices,…