When was the last time you walked into the CFO’s office and said you’re saving the company thousands or millions of dollars? Join us for a short webinar to learn how facilities managers like you are becoming corporate heroes by measurably reducing their company’s operating costs by using building-performance lighting. In this webinar you will learn how companies like Facebook and SAP have already seen major reductions in costs, but also improvements in space utilization and employee productivity.
Security and access control are critical topics for many facility professionals. This webinar will deliver the information a facility manager needs to know in order to evaluate key security and access control decisions. This session will focus at an intermediate level but will spend some time on basic and advanced topics as well. The discussion will address how the access control system works, key card types, access control best practices, and convergence of building and information security. Registrants will receive a complimentary copy of Peter Gregory's Advanced Access Control for Dummies book.
Sloan recently launched BASYS™, a line of sensor-activated faucets that emphasizes advanced functionality, interchangeable componentry and improved serviceability. Rick Nortier, Sloan's Faucet Product Manager, will present an overview of the five BASYS faucet models that cover all types of commercial installations. He will discuss how BASYS simplifies maintenance and upgrades, as well as how external diagnostic LEDs indicate the health and status of key components.
Energy is the largest operating expense for commercial buildings, and more site electricity is consumed for lighting than for any other end use category, such as cooling, ventilation, or refrigeration. Therefore, planning for lighting management systems in building renovations, retrofits, and new construction is crucial for ensuring lighting energy savings, meeting sustainability and code mandates, driving building energy efficiency, and enhancing occupant comfort and productivity. This webinar will cover all of these topics and will review traditional lighting management strategies, and newer technologies such as digital lighting controls, wireless systems, advanced daylighting and window shade controls. Case studies from real buildings that demonstrate how lighting controls save energy and enhance occupant satisfaction will also be presented.
This program will provide a summary of daylighting benefits and strategies that are available to a facilities manager within the elements of commercial building design. It will also address some of the objections to skylights and analyze those issues.
The need for facility managers to reduce costs, boost revenue, ensure reliable infrastructure and drive energy efficiency is a growing concern today. This webinar focuses on the importance of submetering and the role it plays as a cost-effective insight into energy information, analysis and control for reducing usage, cutting utility costs and managing building operations. As well as show how investing in submetering technologies creates opportunities to other programs such as LEED certification and demand response (which is utilized in Smart Grid implementation) that helps achieve even greater efficiency and increased cost savings.
Task chairs represent a significant source of complaints from workers, expenditure for employers, and income for suppliers. Faced with satisfying diverse interests, and with other demands on their time, facilities managers may rely on claims of chair makers regarding the cost-effectiveness of their product, or else delegate the selection process to employees who subjectively understand their need for comfortable chairs, but not objectively how to select them. This session presents an effective, rational, ergonomics-based methodology for evaluating task chairs, regardless of claims made by makers and suppliers, resulting in tangible benefits both for employers and for their workers.
What is excellence? How does it look in the Facilities Management world? This presentation will focus on elements establishing a path to excellence. From developing a pathway of excellence within a service model to measuring outcomes to communicate how excellence is achieved, excellence can be an integrated part of our everyday work. Excellence is incorporated in many ways; this presentation will describe how excellence is used within three varied applications, establishing it within a department’s service model, delivery within a capital project, and during disaster recovery.
The environmental benefits of renewable energy sources are undeniable. With the right solution, solar makes solid
economic sense as well. Major businesses and government agencies are leading the charge and investing in solar.
Thanks to federal and state tax incentives that can add up to as much as 50% in savings for business customers, now
is the time to invest and secure the strongest long term return.
The environmental benefits of renewable energy are undeniable and with the right solar solution, it makes solid economic sense as well. Major businesses and government agencies are leading the charge by investing in solar. Thanks to Federal and state incentives that can add as much as 50% in savings for business customers, investing now will secure the strongest long-term return.
