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  The federal government has long struggled with deferred maintenance in its facilities nationwide, and the efforts by the current administration to identify and sell unused or underused federal facilities is shedding even more light on the issue. Deferred maintenance and repairs at federally owned buildings increased by more than 35 percent in 2024 to…

Berger Hospital was evacuated after smoke was discovered in the basement. Evacuating patients during an emergency is vital to keeping them safe from potential hazards such as smoke or fires. A hospital in Ohio recently faced such a situation where they had to quickly evacuate 55 patients. Berger Hospital in Circleville, Ohio, was evacuated after…

Construction crews will return to work June 30 to meet a federally mandated September 2027 deadline for Portland, Ore., to complete a new plant that will filter its drinking water. After substantial site work had begun, the Oregon Land Use Board of Appeals in February forced the city to halt work at the Bull Run Filtration…

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…