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Yahoo! Says It's Dumping Work-At-Home For Collaboration
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17 days ago
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It’s surprising that the edict came from the tech industry, where competition for talent is fierce. But there it was, in a memo to all Yahoo! employees: “Beginning in June, we’re asking all employees with work-from-home arrangements...
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FMXcellence 2013 Recognizes Facility Managers Who Add Value
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1 month ago
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There’s a lesson to be learned from this year’s FMXcellence honorees, but the lesson may not be obvious. ( Click here to read about the honorees. ) This year’s honorees were recognized for very large projects or programs. The enterprise...
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Glenborough Uses A Structured Approach to Evaluating Energy Saving Measures
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2 months ago
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For the past decade, Glenborough LLC, a full service real estate investment and management firm, has focused on improving the energy efficiency of its portfolio. Today, the average Energy Star score for one of the firm's buildings is 84. Click here...
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Hurricane Sandy: Emergency Preparedness Plans Saved Money, Survey Says
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2 months ago
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An emergency preparedness plan is an insurance policy. And like any insurance policy, it doesn’t pay off until something bad happens. There is no stream of cash from lower energy costs, no gains in comfort, no staff time saved. Without such immediate...
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Facility Managers Have A New Motivational Strategy: Gamification
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4 months ago
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In our society, competition is everywhere you turn, from our political system and economy to sporting events and the television shows that pit singers, dancers, chefs, and even those trying to lose weight against one another. For facility managers, the...
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More Energy Efficient Tenant Build Outs Is Project Goal
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5 months ago
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Over the past decade, many commercial real estate firms have seen the light about the virtues of energy efficiency. But the base building is at best half the story of energy consumption in commercial buildings. And tenants, which may use 50 percent or...
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Efficient Building Operations At Heart Of Government Efforts To Combat Climate Change
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5 months ago
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One thing that President Obama can’t claim a mandate for is action on climate change. Obama never made the topic a high-enough profile issue in his re-election campaign to claim broad popular support for his ideas on climate change. But the push...
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One Way Facility Managers Can Persuade Top Management to Fund Energy Upgrades
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7 months ago
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You’ve heard this old question: If a tree falls in the woods, and no one hears it, does it make a sound? Here’s a facility management version: If a project reduces energy costs, but top management never hears about it, does it save money?...
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Innovations in Facility Products and Practices Bring Energy Saving Opportunities
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7 months ago
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Brand new technology. Familiar products that keep getting better. Fresh ideas about design and operation. Taken together, these developments have multiplied opportunities to reduce energy use. Keeping up is almost a full-time job. A range of products...
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Critical Facilities Summit for Data Center, Hospital, Lab Infrastructure
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8 months ago
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It could be a server room that has turned into a data center. Or it could be an old data center that now supports growing functions like e-commerce. Maybe it’s a hospital where robotic operating suites can’t afford to be offline for the few...
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Size of Workstation Should Align with Corporate Culture
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9 months ago
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Anyone who thinks that cutting costs is the only reason to give employees less space should consider what Facebook did when it moved into the old headquarters of Sun Microsystems. Sun, one of the tech stars of the 1990s, designed its headquarters with...
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Life Cycle Cost Analysis Can Prevent Deficit Spending
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9 months ago
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Pity the poor politician who has to defend deficit spending these days. After a period in which deficits were gradually brought under control, the last decade has seen the return of enormous budget shortfalls. When critics lambaste deficit spending, the...
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Low Energy Star Score Is an Opportunity to Save Energy
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11 months ago
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What would you do if you benchmarked a building using Energy Star’s Portfolio Manager and got back a score of 42? Or 22? Or 2? I’m not sure how many facility managers would clap their hands and run to the CEO to announce the good news. But...
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FMXcellence Recognizes Facility Departments for Adding Value
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over 1 year ago
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It’s easy for facility managers to think of themselves as having a bricks and mortar job. This year’s FMXcellence recognition program shows how accurate that view is — and how limited. Behind all the heavy equipment and sophisticated...
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Bad News in Facility Management? Tell Top Management — Now
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over 1 year ago
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It certainly wasn’t good news: There was a serious fire in my son’s residence hall, which forced students to evacuate at 4:30 on a Sunday morning. But I can’t consider it bad news that the university emailed parents within hours to let...
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Having Good Information Isn't Enough for Facility Managers
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over 1 year ago
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I heard some really good news not too long ago. I was at a presentation for top executives, and the topic was sustainability. One of the speakers started describing tax deductions for energy efficient upgrades in buildings. The takeaway, and I quote:...
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To Expand Network, Ask the Right Questions
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over 1 year ago
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In case you forgot to make a New Year’s Resolution, here are some retroactive resolutions to consider: Get more exercise. Save more money for retirement. Expand your network across the organization. Good ideas, right? And what better way to start...
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Building Occupants Do Care About Facilities
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over 2 years ago
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When it comes to facilities, there are plenty of opportunities to complain — it’s too hot, it’s too cold, this is leaking, that isn’t working. But if you ever start thinking that no one notices the good things about facilities...
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Facility Managers Have to Make LEED Buildings Work
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over 2 years ago
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No one really wants to say this out loud, but the fact is that a LEED design alone won’t give you an energy-efficient building. Architects don’t want to say it because it sounds like they’re not doing their jobs when they design LEED...
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Start Convincing Top Executives that Facilities Can Add Value
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over 2 years ago
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Facility managers get handed so many problems that it’s no wonder some adopt a sort of fullback mentality. Take the ball, put your head down and try to plow ahead. That works, up to a point, but you take a lot of pounding along the way — from...
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New Look for Building Operating Management
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over 2 years ago
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What I want to ask all of you, of course, is, “Well, what do you think?” We’ve spent months working to improve Building Operating Management , and now, ta-da, here it is. I imagine you feel much the same way when you renovate a building...
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FMXcellence Offers Recognition for Facility Managers
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over 2 years ago
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When we developed the FMXcellence program, we decided that we would recognize facility departments rather than individual facility managers. It’s easy to understand why. Achievements in facility management take hard work by a lot of people. Strong...
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Training on Security Is Worth the Investment of Time
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over 2 years ago
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This isn’t good. Two years in a row I’ve gone to visit a college campus with my son. Both times I’ve come back with disasters on my mind. This year it was shooters. The most attention-grabbing part of the orientation program for parents...
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CBECS, the National Energy Survey, Has Been Suspended
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over 2 years ago
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Long before there was LEED , long before Energy Star , there was CBECS . The Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption Survey, as CBECS is formally known, provides a statistical baseline for the energy consumption of U.S. buildings. Never heard of CBECS...
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Facility Managers Should Be Open to New Building Technologies
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over 2 years ago
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Facility managers have a reputation for being skeptical about new technologies. No surprise there. If a product doesn’t perform as expected, it’s the facility manager who has to deal with the impact, whether that’s premature replacement...
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