FACILITY MANAGEMENT ARTICLES
Tips for Choosing the Right Emergency Lighting
Imagine evacuating a facility in an emergency, only to find yourself surrounded by darkness and commotion. In such a situation, being in a familiar facility can still be dangerous. Having emergency lighting is essential for every commercial facility. It helps the staff calmly manage such situations and guides the people and emergency services to ensure safe evacuation.
Plant Maintenance: Things You Should Not Avoid
No matter what size company you have or what industry you are in, maintenance is one of the most important tasks that needs to be done to keep your business operating at peak performance. Avoiding or putting off maintenance tasks eventually leads to production problems, expensive repairs, and extensive disruption to business operations.
How Technology Can Help Save Businesses $
The Farmers’ Almanac is predicting a frigid winter for 2022/2023. When these extremes occur, they are often a challenge for facilities. In this post covid world, however, the somewhat expected tribulations of inclement weather become even more complicated with the staffing shortages that businesses are struggling to overcome.
CASE STUDIES
Integrated Security System Offers Flexibility
AAU is the largest private school of art and design in the country. Since there are so many buildings and thousands of people coming and going each day, keeping track of that many was a major challenge. The campus comprises administration and classroom buildings, as well as residence halls, dining facilities, and computer labs. Effective security can often be a challenge.
New York Plumbing Pro Chooses Tools Up to the Task
When Murdock Plumbing & Heating confronts clogs in inside lines, they grab their “one-two punch.” That’s what owner Robert “Bob” Murdock calls his arsenal of two hand-held drain cleaners from General Pipe Cleaners: the innovative Kinetic Water Ram® and Super-Vee® power drain cleaning machine.
Smart Indoor Air Quality Monitoring
Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, no school’s air quality data was available in Quebec. The province planned to implement a technology solution that could deliver the best possible learning and working environment to students and school staff. Milesight and Assek Technologie worked to create a province-wide IAQ solution leveraging Semtech’s devices.
Theris Flex Valves Solve Efficiency Challenge
The UF Health Shands Hospital in Gainesville ranks as one of the nation’s best according to U.S. News & World Report. As part of an on-going building assessment process, the FM team evaluated patient rooms to better ensure accurate airflow controls. As a result, upgrading problematic Variable Air Volume boxes throughout patient rooms emerged as a top priority.
Scranton Products® Helps with New Headquarters Design
With a portfolio now consisting of about 100 separate industrial properties, Greek Development has spent the past eight decades developing, designing and managing 27 million square feet of commercial space. As a result of this success, the company recently relocated its headquarters to a newly renovated facility in East Brunswick, New Jersey.
JLG Compact Crawler Boom Aces School Tests
When the JLG X550AJ Compact Crawler Boom left the pool deck at Walled Lake Western High School, Dave Watkins was all smiles. In just two hours, the Compact Crawler Boom solved a problem that had plagued the maintenance supervisor for the last five years. Earlier in the week, it produced similar results at nearby Walled Lake Northern High School.
PRODUCTS IN ACTION
Ask the Drain Brains: Choosing the Right Cutting Tool for the Job
Choosing the right drain cleaning machine for the job is only half the battle. But if you don’t choose the right cutting tool as well, you’ll make the job twice as hard and take twice as long to get the job done. Choose the right tool and you’ll get the line clear the first time.
AD Systems Addresses Acute Care Setting Needs with DualSwing™
AD Systems announces the launch of its newest product offering, DualSwing™. Designed for use in acute care settings, the smoke-rated DualSwing door system features a large primary door and a smaller auxiliary leaf that can open to accommodate patient beds, CT scanners, MRI suites, Cath labs and other large equipment.
How to Improve Building Security
STI’s line of Select-Alert sirens/strobes are a highly effective way to alert to unauthorized use, theft, or vandalism, as well as unwarranted exits and entries. The combination of alert and flashing LEDs offers excellent protection for a variety of urgent situations.
Carrier Offers Abound™ Starter Package
To ensure that building owners, facility managers and environment, health and safety (EHS) professionals understand the health of their indoor spaces, Carrier is offering the Abound™ Healthy Air Starter Package.
Ask the Drain Brains: How To Repair a Pipe Without Shutting Down the Whole Building
We had a lot of calls for broken water lines this past winter. It was a pain to my customers when the water had to be shut off each time we made a repair. Is there a better way?
Triplett Announces New Temperature Meter
Triplett Test Equipment, a leading maker of test equipment tools, announces the HS10 Heat Stress Wet Bulb Globe Temperature Meter, ideal for monitoring heat index levels at outdoor athletic training and events, construction, iron and steel foundries, brick firing plants, glass facilities, boiler rooms, and mining sites.