Protecting Birds from Buildings: Myths and Resources

Protecting Birds from Buildings: Myths and Resources

Dispelling myths can lead to facility design and operations that help prevent bird collisions. Healthcare facilities managers face a range of issues and challenges daily in their efforts to create safe and healthy environments for patients and staff. But increasingly, they are attending to the role that their buildings play in the lives of other…

Heat recovery chillers can help recover valuable, rejected heat

Heat recovery chillers can help recover valuable, rejected heat

Heat recovery chiller insights Heat recovery chillers can recover heat being rejected from the building. This process can aid in decarbonization. Decoupling ventilation air from the cooling and heating of a building’s rooms can also reduce fossil fuel use. Water chillers remove heat from chilled water, which is used to cool a building or process….

Future forces

Future forces

David Brewer, Chief Operating Officer, MOD’s Defence Infrastructure Organisation brings Sara Bean up to date on how the first of the Defence Infrastructure Organisation’s £1.6 billion Built Estate contracts is driving improvements The Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO), which is responsible for maintaining Ministry of Defence (MOD) infrastructure, including military housing, training and construction has been…

Webinar Watch: Maximizing Efficiency – Facility Master Planning, FCAs, and the Importance of Accurate Asset Inventory

Webinar Watch: Maximizing Efficiency – Facility Master Planning, FCAs, and the Importance of Accurate Asset Inventory

During Facilities Management Advisor’s FREE upcoming webinar, learn about how the sheer volume of assets located at large facilities, combined with the loss of institutional knowledge from retiring facility team members, can create inventory inaccuracies. As a result, it is important for organizations to create a master plan for an accurate asset inventory. Can’t make it to…

What Energy Efficient HVAC Alternatives Exist for Healthcare Facilities? 

What Energy Efficient HVAC Alternatives Exist for Healthcare Facilities? 

HVAC manufacturers discuss possible energy efficient alternatives to traditional HVAC systems. Healthcare facilities are known for drawing upon vast amounts of energy to keep their processes running. One such energy-hog in healthcare facilities is HVAC. However, there are energy efficient alternatives to traditional HVAC systems available. In this manufacturer roundtable, Healthcare Facilities Today speaks with…

A Surge in Electric Vehicles Brings Fewer but Harder Fires to Fight

A Surge in Electric Vehicles Brings Fewer but Harder Fires to Fight

Facilities managers will play a vital role in fire prevention and firefighting in connection with an increased presence of lithium-ion batteries. The United States has set a goal that by 2030 half of all new vehicles sold in the nation will be zero-emissions vehicles, including electric or plug-in hybrids. Key to achieving that goal is…