Blogs

The Framework for Improving Building Operating Decisions is a research project being conducted at The University of Reading in partnership with Penn State. The goal of the research is to develop a concise and practical web-based decision support tool to help facility managers and facility management...

Plant operators, building maintenance personnel and service technicians are continually faced with the convergence of the many technologies that are currently employed to operate our buildings' mechanical systems. From emerging wireless technologies, the millennial integration of electronic systems...

What good is technology if people don’t know how to use it? More specifically, what good are high-performance buildings if maintenance and engineering departments can’t maintain them properly? Managers have struggled for years to find and keep qualified front-line technicians, and their frustrations...

Everything seems green. No, not just some things. Everything. Anyone who attended the National Facilities Management and Technology Conference in Baltimore earlier this month — or any other national conference, for that matter — witnessed the phenomenon firsthand. No matter the product or...

Roofs are about to step into the high-tech era, and the step could create new challenges for facility design and construction. My most recent Technology blog discussed possible practicality challenges posed by installing solar technology on existing facilities. The technology has advanced to the point...

Your facilities might be "green," but are they really green? When it comes to roofing systems, there is a difference because some roofs really are green, as in the color of vegetation. The growing interest in all things green for institutional and commercial facilities shows no signs of slowing...

Now that most of the dust has settled from the November elections, it's a bit easier to see how some of the priorities of federal and state governments might start to change. One issue that is moving quickly up many priority lists - not that it needed all that much help from newly energized Democratic...