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High above Fantasyland, a maintenance crewman repaints one of the spires of Sleeping Beauty Castle.   In honor of Disney’s 100th anniversary, we’ve unarchived this Building Operating Management article from 1969 about maintaining the theme park In 2024, Building Operating Management is celebrating its 70th anniversary. Editor-in-Chief Dan Weltin has been looking through the archives…

  Europe is a global success story. It is a world leader in sustainability and social inclusion, two of the world’s most important issues. On inclusion, the top ten countries in the World Economic Forum’s Global Social Mobility Index 2020 are all in Europe, and the continent sets the global pace on matters like gender…

Even though extensive research has been conducted on the net-zero transition, the socioeconomic impacts have not been considered at sufficient scale and complexity. We are developing the Climate Transition Impact Framework (C-TIF) to address this gap. We dedicated the past six months to examining the value and feasibility of harnessing existing climate scenarios to understand…

Emerging principles for outdoor lighting could help the stars regain lustre in the nighttime sky. The Illuminating Engineering Society (IES), a leading developer of lighting standards, is collaborating with the research and advocacy organization, DarkSky International, in an effort to curb light pollution and promote installations that could also deliver energy savings and improve neighbourly…

As the days get shorter and the temperatures drop, performing outdoor maintenance tasks can become more dangerous for your team. From hanging and removing holiday lights to spending long hours outside in the cold, there are many risks that maintenance workers face through the winter. Create practices and protocols, train your team, and keep the…

  Access control technologies can benefit three different areas of healthcare facilities: security, points of access and traditional access formats. Access control technology oversees a few different areas in healthcare facilities: security, points of ingress/egress and methods of access. It also helps streamline these aspects of healthcare facility management, or even automates them. Essentially, this…