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Facilities management updates, insights, strategies & best practices

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Maximizing Chiller Performance

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Survey: Workers Showing More Interest in Returning to Office

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Making Preventive Maintenance Work

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2023 Facility Champion: Justine Manaid's Leadership Abilities Shine During Pandemic

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5 Risk Mitigation Strategies for Facility Managers in a Hard Market

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5 Tips to Prepare Your HVAC for Winter

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Efficiency and Effectiveness: Know the Difference

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Preventive Maintenance Best Practices for Roof Care

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How to Build a Long-Term Proactive Maintenance Plan

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Cost, Installation, and Management Considerations for Successful Hardscapes

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Data Centers: No Time for Downtime

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8 Tips for Roofing Preventive Maintenance Inspections

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Preventive Maintenance Is Key to Minimizing Roof Damage and Leaks

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Trump Defunds Critical Life-Safety Upgrades At Navy Building 

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Staving Off Obsolescence with Sustainability

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Maintenance Myths and Misconceptions

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IoT Technology for Extreme Environments Approaches

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Finding the Time for Preventive Maintenance

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How To Learn From In-House Data Center Experts

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Lithium-Ion Batteries Offer Less Preventive Maintenance, Built-in Monitoring

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How To Conduct a Proper Roof Inspection

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Roofing: How And Why To Do Effective Preventive Maintenance

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Recent HVAC Fails Highlight Importance of Preventive Maintenance

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Cold Weather Exposes Facility Condition Woes

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What’s The Difference Between Reactive and Preventive Maintenance?

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Protect Retail Sales With Reliable HVAC

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Maintenance: System Failure Offers Reminder

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Giving Electrical Equipment a Long, Healthy Life

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10 Steps to Prepare Elevators for Hazardous Weather

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Maintenance, Money, and the State of Facilities

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Maintenance Strategies for Success: Prevent, Predict or React?

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HVAC Preventive Maintenance Program Rescues Houston School District

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Houston School District Realizes Benefits of Preventive Maintenance Program

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Houston Schools Seek to Streamline HVAC Direct Digital Controls System

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SIDEBAR: Energy Stars — Houston Schools Shine in EPA Challenge

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Max Planck Florida Institute: FM Team Expands Role, Adds Value

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Air Force Taking ‘Patch and Mend’ Approach to Facilities Maintenance

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Maximizing Maintenance: Assessing Non-Value Added Activities

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Reassessing of Preventive Maintenance Responsibilities Produces Huge Savings

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Using Planning, Checklists, Other Tools to Improve Resilience in Existing Buildings

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Planning an Efficient Drain Cleaning Program

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Manufacturers Can Assist in Developing Drain Cleaning Program

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Equipment Considerations for Drain-Cleaning Program

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5 Steps to Achieving Maintenance Operations Utopia

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Other Building Resilience Issues Include Backup Power, Roofs, Preventive Maintenance

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Michael Cowley Column: Prevent Failures by Learning From Them

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Comprehensive HVAC PM Programs Promote Energy Efficiency

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Most Common sources of IAQ Issues

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Managers discuss reactive, preventive and predictive maintenance strategies

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Dan Hounsell: Embracing Predictive Maintenance Produces Green Strategy

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Preventive Maintenance, Scheduling Meetings Among Important Issues

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Top Maintenance Goal: Make Technicians Better Firefighters

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Using Facility Data To Drive Down Costs

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Drain Cleaning: Finding and Fine-Tuning Training

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Training Considerations for Using Drain Cleaning Equipment

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Devising a Drain Cleaning Training Strategy

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Preventive Maintenance: Shifting a Department's Focus Pays Big Dividends

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Steps to Successful Preventive Maintenance Program

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Maximizing New Technology Boosts Performance, Morale

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5 KPI's Every Manager Should Use

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Management Insight Column: Five KPIs Every Manager Should Use

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Management Insight Column: Measure key performance indicators that matter

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5 Steps to Chiller Efficiency

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Benefits of Zero-Based Budgeting and EMPs

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Searching for Right Answers When Crisis Management Required

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Safety First: Ensuring Effective Drain Cleaning

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Basic Provisions an HVAC Contract Should Include

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Testing, Proper PM Program Essential to Power System Reliability

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Consider Emergency Response Factors in Backup Power Systems Issues

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Are You Keeping an Eye On the Future of Maintenance?

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Embracing (and Minimizing) a Reactive Maintenance Management Plan

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Data To Measure IAQ Is Complex Proposition

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New CMMS Helps Health Care System Move to Preventive Maintenance

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Key Features of New CMMS Improve Efficiency of Health Care System

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CMMS Training Streamlines Work Flow for Health Care System

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Most Important Roof Selection Criterion

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Proper Preventive Maintenance For Roofing

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Fire-rated Door Preventive Maintenance Ensures Function

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Using ASHRAE 62.1 to Maintain Good IAQ

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First Impressions Start with Right Attitude

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Optimize the Life Cycle of Motors and Drives

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Roofing: District Revamps Preventive Maintenance Program

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How to Catalog and Analyze Motors and Drives

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Motors: Strategies for Successful Replacement

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Door Hardware: Most Common Repairs

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Roofing: The Economic Impact of Roof Leaks

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Sustainability Part of Managers' New Normal

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CMMS: How to Implement Condition-Based Monitoring

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Maintenance: Selling Your Accomplishments to Top Management

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CMMS Installation: Hospital to Monitor KPIs

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Equipment Inspections: Infrared Thermography & Oil Analysis

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Vibration Analysis Avoids Equipment Failure

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Energy Management System Can Streamline Facility Maintenance Tasks

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Door Hardware: RFID Technology Improves Security

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Outsourcing: Strategies for Hiring, Managing Contractors with Steve Spencer

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CMMS: Five Commonly Underused Functions

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Snow & Ice Management: Undertaking an Equipment Evaluation

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Boiler Safety: Annual Inspection Checklist

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How to Measure a Contractor's Performance

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Building-Automation System Streamlines Preventive Maintenance

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Implementing a Motor-Management Program

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CMMS: Technicians Should Be Able to Manipulate Data

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Beyond Buzzwords: Lessons from Manufacturing

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Occupancy, Seasonal Changes Affect Restroom Maintenance

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Thermal Imagers Play Role in Preventive Maintenance Programs

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Satellite Facility Streamlines Plumbing Maintenance Tasks

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Maintenance 'Smart Teams' Make Department More Efficient

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Fire-Alarm and Detection Systems: Common Maintenance Activities

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Boilers: Perform Annual or Biannual Cleaning and Inspection

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Boiler Maintenance: Safety Considerations

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Automating Operations: Hospital Upgrades Building-Automation System, CMMS

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What Are the Most Commonly Underused CMMS Functions?

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Plumbing Fixtures: Maintenance Factors Into Product Specification

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BAS Promotes Trending and Preventive Maintenance Practices

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Uninterruptible Power Supplies: Specification Strategies

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Snow and Ice Removal Equipment: Maintenance Checklist

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Cool Roofs: Develop a Maintenance Plan

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Green Restrooms: Maintenance Scheduling Can Lead to Savings

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Infrared Imaging: Tools for Predictive, Preventive Maintenance

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Preventive Maintenance Ensures Peak Operating Efficiency

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Reducing Operating Costs

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Test Equipment Helps Develop Preventive Maintenance Programs

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Inspection Cameras Play a Role in Preventive Maintenance Programs

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Maintenance Departments Investing in Infrared Technology

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Infrared Cameras Uncover HVAC, Roofing Issues

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Schedule Infrared-Imaging Routes for Effective Preventive Maintenance

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Conduct Preventive Maintenance and Fleet Inventories for Snow Removal

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Diagnostic Technology: Thermal Imaging Cameras and Beyond

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Investments in Maintenance Will Extend HVAC System Life

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UPS: Preventive Maintenance Ensures Power Supply

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Three Reasons Why Managers Could Replace Chillers

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Snow and Ice Removal: Preventive Maintenance

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Getting More from a CMMS

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Investments in Maintenance Will Extend HVAC System Life

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Mowers: Inspection and Maintenance

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Preventive Maintenance of the Fire Safety System

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Chillers Performance: Challenges and Solutions

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Putting Data to Work

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Boardroom Connections

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Top-Level HVAC Maintenance

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High-Level Maintenance

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Motor Maintenance Matters

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Going with the Flow: Maintenance ensures pump performance

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5 Threats to Chiller Efficiency

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Maximizing Boiler Performance

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Linking PM To the Bottom Line

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Auditing for CMMS Success

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ROOFING: A Prescription for Savings

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Best practices: Maximizing maintenance

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Thinking Like a CFO: Prevention Pays, Analysis Shows

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Maximum CMMS

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Bottom-Line Benefits of Chiller PM

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Lessons On Lifts

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Plumbing For Savings