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$1.7B New York health lab uses 8,200 steel components in frame
The structural steel frame of the five-story, 663,000-square-foot laboratory project consists of more than 8,200 major steel components, which total approximately 5,545 tons, according to the construction companies.
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Nonresidential buildings drive Schneider energy management gains
The company has implemented two price hikes due to inflationary pressures and could impose more increases as impacts persist, CFO Nathan Fast said on an earnings call.
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Louisiana’s public colleges face $4B deferred maintenance backlog
Across the college systems’ 33 institutions, 30% of facilities were between 25 and 50 years old and 30% were over 50 years old, putting them at higher risk of maintenance issues or failures.
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Interoperability will help building, industrial system efficiency: NEMA
The National Electrical Manufacturers Association is working on standards to help building and other infrastructure systems talk to one another with fewer roadblocks, a NEMA director says.
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Little-used IAQ procedure can lower energy use by 20%, experts say
The indoor air quality procedure has been part of ASHRAE 62.1 for almost 40 years, but it’s rarely used because of the calculations required. Technology is changing that, ventilation specialists say.
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Q&AModular playbook: Constructing an NFL facility in under 3 months
“Once the foundation was ready ... we came in, crane-lifted the units onto the foundation,” says Sven Louis, WillScot’s senior director of fleet operations. “Then it became a mad dash for all of the trades to get inside the building and complete their work.”
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Coworking space takes market share as office owners offload low-performing space: market research
As more office space gets picked up by coworking operators like WeWork and older office stock is converted or offloaded, coworking’s share of the U.S. office market is ticking up.
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Connected systems can help when skilled workers are hard to find: Johnson Controls exec
Technicians can do more in less time if they know what the problem is before they get to the equipment, says Brandon Jackson.
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Trump tweaks Canada tariffs, removing certain goods while adding others
Plywood is among the products that will no longer face the 50% tariff, effective Oct. 30. Small air conditioning units and a variety of floor coverings are newly subject to the tariff.
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Sustainable conversions require thoughtful material reuse: experts
A project in Midtown Manhattan highlights one way to turn an underperforming office building into housing using sustainable adaptive reuse.
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Honeywell aims fire prevention products at battery installations, data centers
The company is leveraging its Forge building automation platform to offer a pipeline of fire and security products, Honeywell Technologies’ CEO said on its third-quarter earnings call.
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Google supersizes PJM virtual power plant to more than 1 GW
The company will use aggregated distributed resources from residential, commercial and industrial customers’ batteries, smart thermostats, on-site generation, industrial process adjustments and other assets.
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AEP signs 960-MW Indiana nuclear pact with Amazon, X-energy
If the project is developed, Amazon would purchase the power under a long-term contract that covers the cost of the facility and its operations, the companies said.
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CBRE CEO sees economic nervousness in markets
The company saw strong growth in facilities management and critical infrastructure services, executives said Thursday, but project management growth dipped as corporate clients reduced real estate spending.
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Tiered approach can hold down energy efficiency upgrade costs
Staging work over time enables each level of upgrades to pay for the next, say executives at the National Electrical Manufacturers Association.
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Data center sustainability presents an opportunity, USGBC official says
Community pushback against data centers might be alleviated by sustainable construction and operations, a U.S. Green Building Council executive says at the 2026 Greenbuild conference.
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Federal building occupancy rate unclear, GAO says
Much of the space is uncounted, and agencies’ use of different occupancy measures creates an incomplete picture, says the government watchdog.
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Energy management company touts revenue available to buildings with excess energy capacity
Facilities can function as part of a distributed computing system in return for rental income, Arcadia says.
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3 notable office-to-residential conversions in DC
For a conversion to be successful, “You need the good fundamentals. You need a good location,” says Peter Epstein of National Real Estate Development.
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Updated TRUE zero waste standard makes business case for certification
The U.S. Green Building Council has updated its TRUE standard to streamline requirements and make it easier for companies to document, track and reduce waste. Sports stadiums and major brands have the certification.
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Building systems as cyberattack targets. ‘We’re sitting on a time bomb,’ security expert says.
The recent European refrigeration cyberattack caused tens of millions of dollars in damages. Read Facilities Dive’s recent coverage of this and other cybersecurity concerns in building controls.
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HVAC manufacturers ask judge to drop price-fixing case
There’s been no coordination to keep prices high and nothing in the proposed class action lawsuit filed earlier this year shows evidence of it, say the companies.
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Iran conflict pushes construction prices to near 4-year high
Higher fuel costs coupled with tariff impacts on key materials drove construction prices up 11.2% year over year in September.
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6 signs that rodents could be in your facility: NPMA
Experts at the National Pest Management Association and Orkin warn that rodent populations are rising, and that without control measures, organizations risk permanent reputational damage.
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$19M funding round highlights desiccant HVAC potential: Mojave Systems
Liquid desiccant-based HVAC systems have attracted interest from the federal government for decades. Mojave says the technology is dramatically more efficient than traditional climate control systems.
