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Going In Circles? Good!

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Architects and designers are increasingly prioritizing sustainability, focusing on low-VOC, recycled materials, and reducing embodied carbon through reuse and modular construction. Rather than drywall and studs with added finishes, there are modular construction options like DIRTT and Falkbuilt.

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How Healthy Is Your Building?

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Similar to how LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design), the most widely used green building rating system in the world, aims to measure and improve a building’s environmental impact through design, the WELL Building Standard seeks to quantify a building’s human impact. How can we better incorporate these principles into our work?

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Lockers: The New Unexpected Star Of Workspace Design

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The construction industry accounts for 38% of all CO2 emissions. It’s important for product designers and retailers to understand their embodied carbon emissions , which relate to the manufacturing, processing, transportation, assembly, maintenance, replacement, and deconstruction and disposal of goods. FSC® : Preserving forests.

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How To Design Zero-Waste Buildings: A Case Study In Success

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TRUE is a “zero waste certification program that guides facilities, portfolios, events and construction sites to design waste out of their system,” (Byrne, 2023). JH: Facility staff are the backbone of zero waste implementation and maintenance. TRUE projects have diverted over 5.6

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9 simple but effective ways to improve employee productivity

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Positive consequences include constructive feedback, increased responsibility, and simply knowing that milestones and progress are measured. Yes, managers shape productivity and engagement using the vision and mission established at higher levels of leadership. Listening is the other vital component to improving employee productivity.

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IWMS and the evolution of Integrated Workplace Management System software

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IWMS software is typically used by facility managers (FMs), space managers, real estate professionals, and leadership teams to both manage (and sometimes optimize) assets, offices, and facilities at large. A CMMS was primarily focused on maintenance needs. Does leadership need them to cut real estate and/or energy expenses?

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The U.S. Needs More Tradespeople and Women Are Answering the Call

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With a projected 650,000 construction jobs open in the U.S. At a time when there is both booming consumer demand for home improvement, construction and maintenance work, as well as growing concern over worker disengagement, the skilled trades have a huge opportunity,” states the 2021 Angi Skilled Trades in America study.