FMLink Newsletter — March 19, 2018 FMLink Newsletter — March 19, 2018 TOP STORIES Get the most out of your intelligent building — this CABA report shows how to optimize design and deployment of automated building management and operations (Surveys and Trends) Designing a pest management program (How To » BOMI International) Would you save enough in energy costs to make it worth sealing your air ducts? This industry study can help you find out (Surveys and Trends) Learn how to increase employee safety, reduce workplace risks and improve business outcomes, with this new global safety standard (Products and Services » Publications) Need more office space? It may be harder to find in 2018, reports Transwestern (Surveys and Trends) This new ANSI/AMCA standard will help you compare total energy performance for all fan types (Products and Services » Publications) UPCOMING EVENTS Happening this week Mar 20 – Mar 21 : BUILDEX Edmonton Mar 20 – Mar 22 : IFMA Facility Fusion Conference and Expo 2018 Mar 20 – Mar 22 : National Facilities Management and Technology Show (NFMT 2018); Smart Building Innovations Conference Mar 21 – Mar 22 : Data Centre World Mar 21 – Mar 22 : Globalcon 2018: Energy, Power & FM, Strategies & Technologies Posted this week Jun 23 – Jun 26 : BOMA 2018 International Conference and Expo Aug 3 – Aug 5 : APPA 2018: Annual Conference and Exhibition (educational facilities) Jun 3 – Jun 6 : Safety 2018 (safety, health) MORE STORIES If your corporate or educational campus or facility has considered installing wind energy, a federal tax credit back in effect might help (Regulations and Government) Find out how much new commercial development and existing building operations contribute to your state and the US economy (Surveys and Trends) Minimize your access control system installation and maintenance costs with this cloud-based system from S2 Security (Products and Services » Security) See how this Ingersoll Rand acquisition will integrate energy analytics to help FMs achieve operating, efficiency, sustainability goals (Corporate and Organization » Developments) Not sure what to do with all your building energy and water performance data? This new toolkit from IMT can help you use it to drive savings (Products and Services » Publications) See how a new nationwide contract will provide performance-based energy services for six years to state and local agencies, educational facilities (Contract Awards) If your security staff wants to be able to customize the info on ID cards and track visitor movement, see what came out of this international security show (Products and Services » Security) If you’ve needed thermal imaging capabilities that won’t break the bank, check out FLIR’s new entry-point camera with advanced features (Products and Services » Software & Technology) Do you want to speed up your next job using concrete slabs? Check out these precast slabs with integrated fire-rated ducts (Building Products » Products and Services)