Author: FM College Admin

The Climate Pledge Arena is on its way to becoming one of the most sustainable buildings Home to the NHL’s Seattle Kraken and the WNBA’s Seattle Storm, the Climate Pledge Arena can host up to 18,300 people for any given event. With the amount of people that could be in the facility, even the smallest…

  As we move toward more environmentally conscious and health-focused practices in commercial cleaning and maintenance, it’s important to make choices that are in line with your values and your company’s mission, and that includes evaluating the products you use. Polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), also called “forever chemicals,” are a large family of man-made chemicals most…

Microgrids have have been hailed lately as a new, tech-enabled path to resilient and sustainable communities. In a basic way, however, microgrids have been around for a long time in one particular sector: healthcare. Hospitals, long required to maintain backup power sources to keep critical services running during a grid outage, already have such systems…

A summer construction project will cast the University of Nebraska–Lincoln in a new light—a few dozen of them, actually. The project, which will commence in June and should wrap by the start of the fall semester, will add and replace more than 50 lights along high-traffic walkways on City and East Campus. Most of the 13-foot-tall, pole-mounted…

Yesterday afternoon General Motors CEO Mary Barra joined Elon Musk on a Twitter Spaces to announce a deal that would–like Ford last month–grant drivers of its U.S. vehicles access to Tesla’s Supercharger Network. This will initially be through an adapter and then in 2025 new vehicles will be built with Tesla’s North American Charging Standard,…

BCIT has launched its first pilot of the Entry Skills for Architectural, Construction, and Engineering Fields (ACE) Microcredential program with more than 18 high school students enrolled to start this summer. ACE is a pathway program aimed to provide eligible high school students, specifically recent graduates, with introductory design and technical skills in the fields…