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Higher Ed Facilities Grapple with Shifting Campuses and Spending Operational spending is keeping pace with inflation but hasn’t yet recovered from reductions that happened before and during the pandemic.

Building Operating Management
How Trump’s Tariff’s May Affect Facility Management Not only will building products become more expensive, but project timelines may also be lengthened due to supply chain delays.

Building Operating Management
How Batteries Are Powering the Future of Resilient, Reliable Energy Beyond energy storage, batteries offer benefits such as frequency regulation and rapid management of load-generation imbalances

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Are Schools Ready for the Next Pandemic? The season finale of Facilities in Focus discusses whether or not education facilities are ready for the next pandemic.


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Building Operating Management
How to Embrace the Future with Adaptive Reuse By focusing on the future needs of urban environments and leveraging advanced technologies, we can create thriving communities through adaptive reuse.


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Complex Scaffold Work and Historic Expertise Power Courthouse Facade Restoration Case study: Taking on the project meant that the experts would have to work 195 feet above the ground to repair the building’s envelope.

Facility Maintenance Decisions
Tackling the Refrigerant Transition in the HVAC Industry The industry is grappling with a refrigerant transition that is raising questions that affect crucial decisions on both refrigerants and the equipment that uses them. 

Building Operating Management
Making the Case for Ground Source Heat Pumps Emerging technology offers owners and managers a range of benefits related to energy efficiency and sustainability.


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No Safety PPE for Worker Killed in Construction Fall Victim working on the 19th floor of Atlanta building was not wearing a safety harness, a witness said.


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GSA Cancels Electric Vehicle Charging Projects EV projects worth $23 million on hold in compliance with Trump executive order.

Facility Maintenance Decisions
Tools for Measuring Organizational Performance Facilities managers can use tools like the balanced scorecard, CMMS, and performance metrics to align their work with organizational strategy

Building Operating Management
LEEDv5 Provides Opportunities for Facility Managers to Add Value The new iteration of LEED allows facility managers to tailor project solutions while maintaining ambitious environmental and social benchmarks


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Tarkett: Angled in Enrichment, High Frequency and Grounded Harmony Collections

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Unipipe Solutions: UnipipeEZ Aluminum Piping System



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Milwaukee Lead Crisis Impacted by Federal Layoffs Thousands of children are at risk of lead poisoning as federal employees aiding in Milwaukee’s lead crisis were laid off


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3 Major Threats to Data Center Operations Data centers are vital infrastructure for the digital age; however, their operations can be halted by a few threats.

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Stalled Billions Undermine University's Construction Plans Five years after approval, one-half of promised $2.9 billion still tied up in planning

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Roof Collapse Kills 125 in Dominican Republic Cause of collapse unknown as tragedy takes place during concert at night club


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