Looking to squeeze more money out of your budget? These economical products are geared toward energy-slashing results, fast ROIs, low initial and life-cycle costs, and minimal environmental impact. The BUILDINGS editorial staff is serving up budget-friendly solutions that benefit your bottom line.
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Maintain Building Exteriors to Maintain Costs
This webinar will highlight the benefits of conducting regular exterior maintenance and outline the components of a quality exterior maintenance program.
Harnessing Energy Never Looked So Good
As interest in renewable energy grows, so do advancements that increase performance and decrease costs. Boosting the technology in these power sources expands current applications and brings their benefits to a wider range of consumers.
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Six cost-effective trends and tips to help educational facilities meet and exceed goals.Click here for complete article…
Building with Sustainable Green Materials As the construction industry recovers from the Great Recession and more builders resume operations, many will discover a changed world. Click here for complete article…
Ever find yourself in the middle of a costly project and wish you'd started off differently?
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How to Benchmark Energy Performance
In this intensive course, learn how to benchmark commercial real estate using the EPA energy performance rating system. Manual and automated data input alternatives for benchmarking are reviewed and lessons learned from building operators are presented to facilitate fast, effective and accurate benchmarking results.
Top Smart Card Blunders
Use a little forethought and common sense to avoid these glitches. Click here for complete article …
Are chilled beams a viable heating and cooling option for your building?
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Real World Interoperability
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The complexity of creating effective building security systems that interoperate with other systems is a challenge for businesses worldwide. Sophisticated, non-security systems can monitor security system events and transactions, distinguishing key events and directly affecting functions like sprinkler shut-off, fire relays, playback of recorded messages, turning on microphones/cameras etc. True interoperability between security and non-security systems is cost-efficient, enables complete automation and resolves problems that couldn't be solved otherwise.
Infloor wire management avoids unsightly, dangerous cables.
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Wide range of LEED compatible possibilities.
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Damage detection and performance evaluation.
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Special Edition from the BOMA 2011 International Conference and Every Building Show.
3 Strategies for Surveillance
Learn to Select the Right Insulation
3 Steps to a Cost Effective Energy Plan
7 Contractor Tips You Don't Want to Miss
Arm Your FM Arsenal
TPO Repair Tips
Take the Travel out of Long Distance Meetings
Purposeful Paints
Eliminate Pests at the Source
Avoid Accessibility Mistakes In Parking Areas
Innovating or Interfering?
Design a Sign of the Times
Access Denied
Open the Window to an Efficiency Upgrade
Cutting Cable Costs
Functional Furniture
Emergency Drills: Don't Ignore the Possibilities
| July 5, 2011 |
