Buildings & Facilities
Buildings and Facilities
- What are the best energy-management practices for keeping a lid on the ever-growing costs of running a compute facility?
- Chicago Mayor Rahm Emmanuel today unveiled the Commercial Building Initiative, a project that will retrofit 14 of the city's most iconic buildings to reduce their energy use by 20 percent over...
- A new report gives insight on how property owners can maximize their return from investing in green upgrades.
- As the demand for data storage explodes, data center owners are having to dramatically scale up operations -- and resource demands. Here's what they can learn from their brick-and-mortar peers...
- As water-related risks grow, it's becoming increasingly important for companies to figure out how to assess those risks. The World Resources Institute has launched a revised, global tool that...
- New standards adopted today in California will make new construction in the state, as well as major alterations and additions to existing buildings, among the most energy efficient in the...
- Just as with a weight-loss diet, building owners are essentially united in knowing they need to use less energy -- the just don’t know how to go about it. The DOE’s new Better Building...
- The St. Louis Cardinals have worked to achieve a 30 percent recycling rate, a 20 percent reduction in overall energy use and 10 percent cut in water use.
- Building energy management has become a go-to solution for helping building owners and managers cut costs and improve their environmental performance. And continuous data analytics offers a new way...
- Building engineering company Integral Group unveiled a building with the world's highest LEED rating for commercial interiors in Oakland, Calif., this week. Here's a slideshow of the features...
- The world’s largest business software company has launched a new initiative to focus on the many challenges that urban centers face when trying to tackle sustainability issues.
- At VERGE London, speakers discussed how the convergence of energy, information, transportation and building technologies is impacting cars, buildings, cities, energy and more. Check out the Twitter...
- CBRE's National Director of Sustainability shares what convergence means to managing 1.4 billion square feet of property for corporate and institutional clients.
- The plug-load threat is emerging like a monster against building energy-efficiency efforts. Here are some easy-to-implement, cost-effective ways to tame loads.
- A new partnership between EDF and AT&T dives into the looming challenge of water shortages for thirsty commercial buildings. Through a water analysis, AT&T will potentially reduce the water...
- The new documentary 'Last Call at the Oasis' shines a light on growing global concerns about water scarcity -- and what companies and governments large and small are doing to keep the glass...
- With just weeks to go, London is hustling to deliver on its pledge to make the 2012 Summer Games the greenest ever.
- Nike’s new sustainability report highlights how the sporting goods giant is pushing innovation in both its products and supply chain.
- The nature of facility management is rapidly changing with the onset of smart building technologies and greater demand for efficiency from the C-Suite. Here's what you can do now to get your...
- Two fairly disparate trends -- the integration of hardware and software systems and more modular data centers -- both are leading to significantly more efficient IT systems.
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