4+ hour, 34+ min ago  (1157+ words) Montgomery Middle School in Chula Vista, California, once offered a lesson no district wants to teach: Deferred maintenance always comes due." But what began as a response to aging facilities, water damage and displaced classrooms ultimately became one of California's…...

3+ day, 4+ hour ago  (106+ words) Facilitiesnet Check Out NFMT West's Vegas-Themed General Session! Facility managers know all about the risk that their jobs entail, from equipment failures to communication breakdowns and technology disruptions. They happen, and not on schedule, so the ability to navigate the…...

3+ day, 21+ hour ago  (800+ words) Maintaining strict environmental control has been critical to data center performance and reliability since the 1950s, when early mainframe computers required tight temperature limits to prevent failures, especially in defense applications where downtime impacted critical operations." By the 1960s and early 1970s, mainframes…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (246+ words) To be effective, resilience cannot be treated as an isolated project or a reactive measure. It must be embedded into long-term strategic planning and decision-making. This requires alignment across multiple areas:" Resilience planning starts with a risk assessment. Given your…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (1193+ words) If it's true that eventually, everything old is new again, visitors to Portland soon will have a new but somehow familiar lodging option to consider. A recently launched'adaptive reuse project aims to renovate the historic 1906 Tate Hotel into an updated…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (536+ words) When Sustainability Becomes a Resilience Strategy Facilitiesnet When Sustainability Becomes a Resilience Strategy - Extreme weather events such as Hurricane Harvey demonstrate that facility resilience depends on protecting operations, utilities, staffing and supply chains, not just buildings. - Climate-related risks are increasingly…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (787+ words) Half. That is the proportion of facility management professionals expected to'retire within the next five to 15 years. Nearly 40 percent of facilities managers in the United States are already over the age of 55. ' These numbers should stop every facility executive in…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (173+ words) From maintaining clean air and reliable power to protecting the hospital's most vulnerable patients, Bruce and Dan share the emotional responsibility that comes with operating critical care environments. It's a heartfelt reminder that healing depends on far more than what…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (534+ words) Once merely footing from point A to point B, flooring has become central to design, durability and sustainability in institutional and commercial facilities. Balancing performance with an eco-friendly style is more important than ever as facilities executives seek to make…...

3+ week, 28+ min ago  (1094+ words) For many universities, the campus grounds are the first introduction that students, parents and visitors have to the institution. Before anyone steps inside a classroom or lecture hall, they experience the campus through its landscape. " Modern grounds management involves much…...