FMLink Newsletter — Maintenance and Operations — September 22, 2016

FMLink Newsletter — Maintenance and Operations — September 22, 2016

This Maintenance & Operations newsletter is one of a series of five specialized newsletters, supplementing our weekly general newsletter (sent on Mondays). For each of five weeks you will receive a different specialized newsletter on Thursdays or Fridays, focusing on a different FM-related area. To manage which ones you receive, click on the link below.

This newsletter covers maintenance and operations news from August 11 through September 21, 2016.

TOP STORIES

Facility managers find ventilation solutions with DuctSox fabric duct (White Papers » DuctSox Corporation)
DuctSox now goes into data centers, UFAD and adds aesthetics to commercial buildings

Hazardous material spills (How To » BOMI International)

Case study: Re-use on campus (Magazines » FMJ)
Lessons learned from university surplus property operations

Free ISSA-TV videos cover cleaning plan development, hospital cleaning times, vacuuming (Products and Services » Publications)

Upsite white paper explores how IT decisions impact data center FM (Products and Services » Publications)

Employee control in the workplace: The power of choice (Workplace Strategies » WORKPLACE MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS)

IREM releases annual Income / Expense Analysis Reports for five property types (Surveys)

Carbon footprint standards: Why should you care? (Magazines » FMJ)

Building managers now have more green certification options than ever (Sustainability » FEA (Facility Engineering Associates, P.C.))
Which option is best for you? LEED? Green Globes? BREEAM? No certification at all?

Frost & Sullivan: Food waste management opportunities expanded by innovative upcycling of food waste (Surveys)

Ocean motion: From brine to turbine (Magazines » FMJ)
What is hydrokinetic energy and what does it mean to us?

BSI revises standard for reinforced soil (Products and Services » Publications)

Tyco, Johnson Controls shareholders approve merger (Developments » Corporate and Organization)

ARMA publishes Spanish-language roofing guidelines (Products and Services » Publications)

MORE STORIES

ISS wins integrated facility services contracts in North America, around world (Contract Awards)

Serious Play Award winners include ISS outsourced services strategy game (Developments » Industry Awards)

Eaton adds LED luminaires for outdoor floodlighting applications (Products and Services » Lighting)

ISSA launches third-party CITS Training Center Verification (Associations and Organizations)

Ascent launches data center infrastructure management platform (Products and Services » Software)

San Diego resort-style community gains IREM sustainability certification (Developments » Environment and Sustainability)

ServiceChannel FM data management and analytics offering integrates with customer data (Products and Services » Software)

Brain Corp, ICE partner on self-driving vehicles for cleaning industry (Products and Services » Carpeting and Flooring)

McLaren Engineering Group expands special inspections division (Products and Services » Services)

eLine Technology launches user-friendly network video recorders (Products and Services » Security)

Dahua Technology expands Pro Series PTZ camera line with powerful mini dome cameras (Products and Services » Security)

Allevate launches cloud-hosted facial recognition service with Facewatch secure online crime reporting (Products and Services » Security)

Emerson Network Power, Ponemon Institute release benchmark study on data center costs (Surveys)

Brass Knuckle offers advanced eye/face protection (Products and Services » Worker Safety)

Fluke leakage current clamp meters help reduce downtime (Products and Services » Energy)

Hyper-focused data center FM services startup BSC FM launches (Developments » Corporate and Organization)

ZinCo roof garden chosen for integrated project on garden island of Mainau, Germany (Contract Awards)

TC Facilities Management to provide window-cleaning services to 200 U.K. KFC restaurants (Contract Awards)

Christian Church Homes earns Accredited Management Organization designation (Developments » Real Estate)