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  • Clarence Carson Chicago Illinois, John Rimer FM 360, NFMT 2025
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    Mission statements do a lot of work on facilities teams, managers say

    Writing the statements can seem like a formality, but they can play a concrete role in technicians’ day-to-day work, facilities managers heard at NFMT 2025.

  • Schneider Electric, data centers, microgrid
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    Schneider Electric to invest $700M in US manufacturing

    The company aims to expand and renovate facilities across eight sites as it sees skyrocketing data center demand.

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    Digitizing emergency operations can ensure plans are accessible

    Hard copies of procedures can be time-consuming to locate or use when it matters most, according to 911inform.

  • The indoor unit of an air conditioner featuring a cassette split system on a grey ceiling
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    Daikin, Poppy partner to accelerate building ventilation rate testing

    Adding Poppy’s real-time air-tracing and ventilation solutions to Daikin products and services can help buildings reduce energy costs and meet IAQ standards, the companies say. 

  • NFMT 2025, Baltimore
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    NFMT 2025: Plenty of tech talk but with a focus on people

    The annual conference has drawn thousands of attendees and hundreds of exhibitors as facilities managers meet to share best practices and learn of products and services to help their operations.

  • Emergency preparedness, facilities manager, phone pictures, NFMT 2025, Trask
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    How phones shrink response times when facilities are at risk

    Mobile devices give building operators a powerful emergency preparedness resource – if they’re used to track work before a crisis hits, a response specialist says.

  • An image of a white building with blue logo that says Zaxbys
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    Zaxbys adds AI cameras to drive-thru

    The technology from Berry AI measures speed of service and line abandonment, which could help boost drive-thru times by identifying bottlenecks.

  • The Colorado Capitol building.
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    ACEEE scorecard shows nationwide improvement in state energy efficiency programs

    Looking at emissions reduction goals far in advance can help align building capital planning budgets and deep energy retrofits, experts say.  

  • An empty hallway in a school shows lockers and a door to a classroom or cafeteria
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    Schools earn a ‘D+’ for infrastructure

    Many public school buildings are hitting their 50-year design life, requiring “comprehensive” upgrades and replacements to key facility systems.

  • Building performance standards set to proliferate, evolve in 2025

    State and local governments continue to develop building standards that draw on existing frameworks and implement new metrics for measuring performance. 

  • Interior of the new Terminal E at Southwest Florida International Airport.
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    $1.1B Southwest Florida airport expansion breaks ground

    Suffolk’s Terminal E project in Fort Myers, Florida, includes chiller replacement and expansion and a new concourse with 14 gates.

  • Eagle Eye Networks
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    Sensors help building operators detect vaping

    The sensors can also monitor temperature, humidity and CO2 levels to make air quality easier to manage, the manufacturer says.

  • UAlbany decarbonization project to cut fossil fuel consumption 16%

    With geothermal wells, heat recovery and chiller replacements, the university will be able to shut off its gas-fired boilers during the summer, it says.

  • GAO, underused federal properties
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    Federal buildings plagued with security, maintenance problems: GAO

    Those concerns plus low occupancy rates support the sale of more federal buildings, a Government Accountability Office official said in a House subcommittee hearing. 

  • Rear aerial view of of a data center being constructed in Ashburn, VA
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    Cloud data centers get bigger, denser amid AI building boom

    AWS, Microsoft and Google accounted for 59% of all hyperscale compute capacity as the number of large facilities grew to more than 1,100 last year, Synergy Research Group said.

  • Sodexo, Swanl, Culinary Union 226, dues deduction
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    Sodexo caught in union dues tussle

    While the company waits for union instructions, an employee has filed a labor complaint to stop it from deducting dues from her paycheck.

  • A male hand uses a key card to open a smart door lock for security systems on a glass door in an office building.
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    Rise in office attendance leads building operators to automate visitor management

    With more than a third of businesses increasing office attendance, managers can find value in integrating workplace solutions, a company in the management software space says. 

  • Tariffs, third-party logistics companies, industrial tenants
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    Tariffs’ impact on commercial real estate

    Third-party logistics providers could fill otherwise slack industrial space as tenants rely on them while volatility persists, CBRE says. Manufacturing and retail also could see effects.

  • A unit at Mint House's apartment-style hotel property, The Dylin.
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    Hospitality operator Mint House opens college-town ‘aparthotel’

    With The Dylin, its first opening since acquiring Locale last month, the residential hospitality operator capitalizes on long-term accommodations demand in Madison, Wisconsin.

  • A technician uses air to clean an HVAC system.
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    Routine HVAC cleaning can lower energy use and help meet ventilation standards, study says

    Cleaning can be a cost-effective tool for increasing occupant comfort and health and building energy efficiency, researchers from two universities found.

  • Two engineers look at a data center server rack.
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    Schneider Electric, NVIDIA, ETAP collaboration set to advance data center efficiency, operations

    The technology uses digital twins to analyze inputs, like those from mechanical, thermal and electrical systems, to help operators manage data center facilities in real-time, the companies say.

  • A conference participant walks past a spinning representation of Planet Earth during the UNFCCC COP27.
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    SBTi releases draft of updated corporate net-zero standard

    The Science Based Targets initiative said this “Version 2” of the standard focuses on companies going “from ambition to progress.”

  • buildings in Bethesda, Maryland
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    Maryland’s Montgomery County sets energy use standards for commercial buildings

    The regulations, which apply to buildings 25,000 square feet or larger, are a part of the county’s efforts to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions by 2035.

  • NYC DDC, Kodua, Foley, Joshi, Constantino, roof, facade, $10.7M
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    $10.7M court upgrade to be one of the last projects to use NYC’s old contracting method

    The city’s new method of contracting will help projects like the judicial center renovation get done sooner, city officials say.

  • A person pushing a cart with cleaning supplies down a hall
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    Operational changes, education can help curb cleaning complaints, survey says

    Implementing daytime cleaning schedules, staff training and occupancy technology can reduce the amount of “subjective or frivolous” complaints and help to optimize operations.