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U.K Standardizes Life-cycle Costing for Buildings Life cycle costing for buildings just got a big boost in the United Kingdom. With any luck, developments there will be a harbinger of things to come here. “Standardized ... continue reading>> Date posted: 11/7/2008 Can Technology Ease Facility Staffing Crunch in Data Centers? A recent article in the New York Times highlighted the difficulties of finding facility staff for data centers. The day after it came out, I spoke with Philip ... continue reading>> Date posted: 8/12/2008 Be Candid with Management When the News Is Bad I was wondering whether to buy tomatoes as I walked through the mid-sized grocery store in my neighborhood the other day. Like everyone else, I was concerned about getting sick ... continue reading>> Date posted: 7/15/2008 Pebble Project Examines How Design Impacts Patient Health The bottom line on a building isn’t the price tag for construction. It’s not energy and other operational costs. It’s not what the building can be sold for. Rather, ... continue reading>> Date posted: 5/27/2008 New Web Site Aims to Boost Reuse of Old Building Materials The green building movement has advanced, not only by leaps, but by small steps. A leap happens when an organization decides to commit to getting LEED certification for ... continue reading>> Date posted: 5/17/2008 Something to Talk about with IT I got a surprise reading about results from a new survey conducted by the Uptime Institute. According to the survey, communications between IT and facilities are ... continue reading>> Date posted: 4/15/2008 New Cancer Center Facility Focuses on Patients What does it mean for a facility to be “logical not lavish”? That phrase is one John Balzer uses to describe his philosophy of facility design. In December 2005, Building ... continue reading>> Date posted: 4/7/2008 Green Development Would Still Depend on Cars I have to admit I was a bit surprised to read that Jacoby Development, which wants to build a green mixed-use development around Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International ... continue reading>> Date posted: 3/18/2008 IT, Energy and Education If you’re a facility executive responsible for data centers, the following undoubtedly makes immediate sense. As servers, storage devices and other IT gear get smaller and more powerful, they generate ... continue reading>> Date posted: 2/15/2008 Construction Costs a Mixed Picture I recently conducted an informal poll of a small number of facility executives – 12 to be exact – who have been good contacts in the past. The questions all ... continue reading>> Date posted: 2/15/2008 Facility Departments Team Up to Find Rebates Rebates for energy upgrades have become more widespread in the past few years. But finding them isn’t necessarily easy. The incentives may not be well publicized, the programs don’t always ... continue reading>> Date posted: 12/17/2007 Pressure Grows to Build Green There are many reasons to build green. Up to now, public pressure hasn’t been one of them. But that seems to be changing. The Majestic Star casino is a ... continue reading>> Date posted: 11/12/2007 One More Vote For VSDs Variable–speed drives (VSDs) passed a milestone recently. As many facility executives know, VSDs reduce the amount of energy an electric motor uses by reducing the frequency of the ... continue reading>> Date posted: 11/5/2007 Another Road to Data Center Energy Efficiency Suppose you manage a data center that uses the underfloor plenum for cooling. Then imagine that the raised floor extends to the outside walls of the building. And now picture ... continue reading>> Date posted: 10/8/2007 Green Design, Good Design From energy and water efficiency, to good indoor environmental quality, to responsible materials selection — it's easy to make a list of the goals for a green building. But what ... continue reading>> Date posted: 9/25/2007 How Good Is Your Emergency Planning? You’ve probably heard about the Energy Star Label for Buildings and the LEED green building rating system. Now there could be a new credential for facility ... continue reading>> Date posted: 8/21/2007 When Greenspan Talks, People Listen When you’re thinking about energy-efficient technologies, should you care about oil? When it comes to the energy used by buildings today, coal and natural gas are far bigger ... continue reading>> Date posted: 8/8/2007 BOMA's Energy Efficiency Challenge In a sense, they’re ambitious goals. Reduce energy consumption 30 percent by 2012. Use Energy Star benchmarking. Use an energy audit or retrocommissioning to find low-cost, ... continue reading>> Date posted: 7/26/2007 New Test Aims to Rate Mold Resistance The proliferation of green products is a boon to facility executives who are involved in green building projects – or who simply want to make buildings a little more environmentally ... continue reading>> Date posted: 7/11/2007 Is Energy Efficiency Worth a Phone Call? With high energy prices and rising concerns about global warming, energy efficiency is a hot topic in Washington, drawing support even from some conservative Republicans like Jim Sensenbrenner ... continue reading>> Date posted: 6/26/2007 Solar Panels a Sign of Things to Come? Over the years, interest in energy has ebbed and flowed. While factors like energy cost will clearly continue to influence investments in efficiency and renewables, I believe the current ... continue reading>> Date posted: 6/13/2007 Proposed Green Standard Offers Glimpse of Future Want to get an idea of building technologies to start considering for projects in the years ahead? Take a look at the public review draft of a ... continue reading>> Date posted: 5/31/2007 Corporate Real Estate Takes on Energy CoreNet has a long history of identifying and analyzing trends as they are beginning to unfold. To take one example: Back in the early ‘90s, the International ... continue reading>> Date posted: 5/15/2007 To Commission or Not Commission - Why is it a Question? Is the glass half full or half empty when 61 percent – or should I say only 61 percent? – of facility professionals say that commissioning is not ... continue reading>> Date posted: 4/30/2007 Maybe Your Board of Directors Does Care about Energy Efficiency Next time you’re wondering if it’s worth trying to justify more energy-efficient equipment, you might check out a Web site that has nothing to do with either facilities or energy. ... continue reading>> Date posted: 4/18/2007 BOMA Helps Office Buildings Turn Green Multitenant office buildings have historically been laggards in green design and construction. The last year or so has seen signs of a shift in direction, especially with regard to energy ... continue reading>> Date posted: 4/2/2007 Climate Change Is Becoming a Business Issue An environmental think tank says that businesses ought to pay attention to climate change. What’s the big deal about that? Two things. One is the arguments they marshal to ... continue reading>> Date posted: 3/21/2007 Climate Change: View from the Top Chances are fairly good that you heard about the Conference Board earlier this week, though you may not have noticed. The group released its consumer confidence index ... continue reading>> Date posted: 3/5/2007 The Job�s Not Done Without a Post-occupancy Evaluation The list is punched, the ribbon is cut. Is there any happier day for facility executives than the day a construction project, large or small, is wrapped up? continue reading>> Date posted: 2/5/2007 Data Centers: Do You Know What Intel is Up To? If you’re responsible for data center space, the plans of Intel and other chip makers will have a big impact on you. The new smaller, faster, hotter IT equipment is ... continue reading>> Date posted: 1/25/2007 For Commercial Offices, Is The Risk NOT Being Green? Anyone contemplating a new office construction project ought to check out an article in the Dec. 25 issue of Barron’s, which I learned of through the continue reading>> Date posted: 1/15/2007 It�s a Smaller World A couple of weeks ago, I pointed to one sign of the growing international influence on building products. The same thing, I think, can be said about building ... continue reading>> Date posted: 12/18/2006 More Signs of Wireless Progress There are plenty of reasons facility executives sometimes refer to new technologies as “bleeding edge.” No one wants to be the one stuck explaining why some promising new product isn’t ... continue reading>> Date posted: 11/29/2006 Guess What�s Shaping Building Products For facility executives who want to anticipate trends in facility technology, a new initiative by electrical products manufacturers is worth noting. It’s important not just for itself, but for a ... continue reading>> Date posted: 11/1/2006 Smoothing the Path for Construction Recycling Whether it’s part of a comprehensive green-building master plan, or a standalone effort to reduce the environmental impact of building projects, a growing number of facility executives are recycling at ... continue reading>> Date posted: 10/23/2006 If You Haven�t Seen This Site�‭. ‬RMI‭ ‬–‭ ‬the Rocky Mountain Institute ‭ —‭ ‬is an energy think tank and consulting firm headed up by Amory Lovins‭, ‬an energy guru whose list of ... continue reading>> Date posted: 10/17/2006

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