5 Minutes with ...
Richard W. Moore, P.E.
Director, Division of Facilities
and Maintenance Services,
Milwaukee Public Schools
Commercial real estate organizations have long been resistant to energy efficiency initiatives. Nevertheless, some organizations are making energy efficiency a priority. What steps does your organization generally follow regarding energy efficiency?
A new study by the National Institutes of Occupational Safety and health (NIOSH) will target building-related asthma among teachers and staff members in the nation’s public schools. NIOSH has proposed conducting an initial cross-sectional respiratory health survey in three schools. The study then will continue with two more years of longitudinal follow-up to assess respiratory health and environmental conditions in relation to time and intervention status in the schools.
This 60-minute e-learning opportunity led by Lindsay Audin, president of EnergyWiz, covers essential low-cost and no-cost measures to improve energy efficiency. Learn the three keys to cutting utility costs, and understand how you are buying energy, including:
If you’ve checked FacilitiesNet.com within the past few days, you might have noticed the news that U.S. Green Building Council members voted overwhelmingly to make a significant change to LEED. Projects now must meet at least two Optimize Energy Performance credits, essentially forcing all LEED-certified new-construction projects to be at least 14 percent more energy efficient than LEED’s prerequisite energy standard, ASHRAE 90.1-2004. There are at least three reasons this change is significant ...
I’ve been thinking a lot about training lately, and now I have a headache. It seems as though most of my discussions with managers these days somehow come around to their desire to ensure their front-line technicians receive access to the training they need to keep facilities operating efficiently.
Inevitably in these discussions, managers refer to — in no particular order — the dearth of trained workers entering maintenance, tightening budgets that often don’t account for proper technician training, and the need to tackle the backlog of maintenance projects that bedevils many organizations.
I hear what they’re saying. It’s tough enough to get organizations to provide funds for deferred maintenance, let alone secure funds needed to train new workers to actually do the work.
Now, the advance of technology is complicating the situation. Organizations are falling in love with technology advances that deliver a host of benefits, including increased energy efficiency and more comfortable indoor environments, to name just two ...
At more than 32,000 square feet, a four-story public restroom in China is not only in the running to become the world’s largest bathroom, but quite possibly also nightmare. The few details provided in the Associated Press story make the building look like an operations and maintenance nightmare: more than 1,000 toilets, including a mix of urinals that include a variety of non-standard shapes, including crocodiles and the Virgin Mary ...
The GreenSave Calculator lets users compare roofing alternatives over a specific time period to determine which has the lowest life-cycle cost. It is excellent for determining whether higher initial costs are justified by reducing such future costs as operating, maintenance, repair or replacement costs or producing additional benefits, such as energy savings.
