Author: FM College Admin

Staffing shortages continue to plague healthcare facilities, leading to unintended consequences for some of them. Since the COVID-19 pandemic first began, healthcare facilities have struggled to maintain staffing levels to pre-pandemic operations. The ongoing labor shortage has started to have a domino effect on other areas of hospitals, creating trouble for these already struggling facilities….

Many institutional and commercial facilities that rely on public funds to operate —  from K-12 school districts and universities to government buildings — have been fighting an uphill battle for decades against growing backlogs of maintenance and repair needs. For some such New York City facilities, the latest budget crunch has resulted in a series…

Real estate companies are increasingly accepting the imperative to decarbonize buildings, but they frequently find the task difficult, laborious, and expensive. Owners with portfolios of many unique buildings often have no centralized inventory that indicates the conditions inside or the types of equipment they contain. What’s more, physical energy audits and building-by-building net-zero plans are…

As we prepare for the holidays, we’re again in the middle of another season of the most unpleasant gifts: the common cold and, certainly much worse, what some call the “tripledemic” of influenza, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), and COVID-19. The “CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) continues to anticipate that the upcoming fall and…

On average, 20,000 veterans leave the Armed Forces each year to join the civilian workforce, yet half have a difficult time finding work. With research revealing that over two thirds of veterans who joined the industry felt FM was a good fit for their skills, and 84 per cent of managers agreeing that veterans have…

While pressure grows in some sectors for a more stringent return to office policy, a hybrid approach continues to be the preference for most workers. It appears, for the immediate future anyway, that the traditional five days per week 9-to-5 schedule is dead — or at least on life support. Yet according to a recent…