FACILITY MANAGEMENT ARTICLES
How Technology Can Address Health & Safety Concerns
As the Omicron variant surges, it’s important that facilities consider revamping their health and safety plans to best protect their employees, property, and buildings. During these times it’s important to ensure the health and safety of your employees while on-premises and to also equip them with the right technology so they can more effectively complete their jobs.
Boost IAQ With Your Commercial Carpets
IAQ has become a major point of discussion when it comes to preventing the spread and intensity of aerosol transmissible diseases. For facility managers, this means it’s time to take IAQ improvement measures into their own hands. Though it may sound like a daunting task, quickly improving IAQ doesn’t have to be complicated. It can start at the ground level with a focus on carpets.
Beware of Insider Threats
According to a 2017 report by TransUnion, the consumer credit company, ninety-five percent of property management companies experience some form of fraud each year, including ways to work around credit checks. Further, “those committing fraud are becoming more clever and sneakier by the day. If they come after your company, your reputation and revenue could be on the line.”
CASE STUDIES
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.
Zero Carbon Building Relies on Carrier Automation
evolv1 is a uniquely modern building – the first zero carbon building constructed in accordance with LEED™ Platinum principles in Canada. The Cora Group selected Conestogo Mechanical to recommend, design, configure, install, and maintain a complete BAS solution, with engineering support of the local Carrier Enterprise office.
Ecore Provides Solution to Church Expansion
The Church in Cerritos has grown steadily through the years to establish a strong foothold in the Southern California community. Most recently, the Church enhanced its facilities even further, adding a recreational youth center. To optimize the useability of the space, the project team sought surfacing solutions that offered many performance improvements.
Energy Efficiency Programs Create Edge for SCC
Schaumburg Corporate Center has long been a customer of Siemens, partnering over the years to maintain and upgrade its building automation systems, building controls, and to implement energy-savings strategies. Siemens and SCC embarked on a utility-funded Monitoring-Based Commissioning (MBCx) program designed to promote energy efficiency.
Carrier Delivers Peace of Mind to School District
Of all the challenges facing the San Bernardino City Unified School District to re-open their 72 sites post-COVID-19, none were more important than delivering a high degree of IAQ and promoting a safer environment for everyone entering each building. This meant efficiently mitigating airborne particles by increasing air changes per hour in each occupied space.
Condeco Helps Ricoh Embrace Flexible Workspaces
Ricoh’s Asia Pacific headquarters was moving to a new location and wanted a more flexible working mode. The company planned to reduce the number of desk spaces; instead of every employee having their own desk space, the company wanted to adopt a shared workstation policy. Ricoh turned to Condeco’s workspace booking solution to support their new plans.
PRODUCTS IN ACTION
Extending the Life of Your Drain Cleaning Cables: As Easy as 1, 2, 3!
Back in 2005, drain cleaning specialist Michael Jackson bought a couple of Speedrooter drain cleaning machines with 100 feet of 5/8″ Flexicore cable. Despite being used almost every day for 15 years, Michael still has the original Flexicore Cables in his Speedrooters!
Wire Cages Protect Against Smoke Detector Vandalism
The STI Steel Web Stopper® wire guards help protect smoke detectors against vandalism, accidental damage and tampering, and feature 9-gauge steel wire with white or stainless steel corrosion resistant polyester coating.
Form-A-Tread® Prevents Slips and Falls on Stairs
The most common technique for preventing slips and falls on stairs is the application of non-skid adhesive tapes or epoxy coatings embedded with aggregate. However, tapes can peel off and coatings quickly abrade away. Now, a new category of durable high-tech epoxy is available to ensure superior safety for years without re-application.
Ask the Drain Brains: Choosing the Right Drain Cleaning Tool – Part 3
Now that we’ve talked about which is the right machine to use for each application, the next question is: What is the right cutter to use? Everyone has their favorite cutter, just as everyone has their favorite fishing lure.
Novolin Awarded Patent for Utensil Dispenser
Waddington North America™ (WNA), a Novolex® brand, announced today that it has been awarded a new patent for Cutlerease®, an innovative dispenser that offers customers one disposable utensil at a time.
Ask the Drain Brains: Choosing the Right Drain Cleaning Tool – Part 2
Last month we answered the question of what the right drain cleaning tool for each job is. Here are more solutions to drain cleaning problems involving tree roots, grease clogs, and ice.