Anne Cosgrove

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Cosgrove has been writing about facility management since 1996 when she began working at Today's Facility Manager (TFM) as the magazine's Editorial Assistant. From 2000 to 2005, she continued to work in publishing in another subject field until rejoining TFM's editorial team as Managing Editor in February 2005. In September 2012, she was promoted to Editor in Chief of TFM (now Facility Executive), where she continues to cover solutions and trends for the magazine's facility management audience.
fleet management

Question Of The Week: Fleet Management With GPS

This article from Robert J. Hall, President of Track Your Truck, addresses how technology tools may help improve fleet management.
office supplies

New Service Spotlight: Staples Easy System

Facility managers order office supplies and services from any device using this purchasing platform from Staples Business Advantage.
escalator cleaning

New Product Flash: Rotomac ET15B By Rosemor Intl.

This equipment is precision-engineered for escalator cleaning and moving walkways.
data center design

New Service Spotlight: Data Center Design From Venyu

A new service focuses on the data center design needs of smaller rural facilities.
window film

New Product Flash: 3M Thinsulate Window Film

This window film features a patented construction that helps reflect interior heat back into a facility.
cyber security

Survey: What Is Your Cyber Security Role?

As part of a research partnership, this survey asks facility managers, commissioning and other consultants, and IT personnel to weigh in on cyber security for facilities.
wellness programs

Question Of The Week: Workplace Wellness Programs?

To advance workplace wellness programs, is facility management collaborating more often with counterparts in human resources?
vertical lifts

New Product Flash: EcoLifts From JLG

These low level vertical lifts require no batteries, hydraulics, oil, or controls.
SunPower Launches Helix™: A Fully Integrated Solar Option For Business.

New Product Flash: Helix Integrated System By SunPower

This pre-engineered, modular solar PV solution aims to help facilities scale their renewable energy programs with minimal disruption.
facility management

Facility Management SOLUTIONS 2016

Discovering new products and services to improve operations is a boon to busy facility management executives. These brief interviews help illuminate useful solutions for 2016.
winter weather

Winter Weather Checks For Roofing

When inspecting roofs as the winter weather wanes, check for these five potential problems.
banner

New Product Flash: BannerDrop By Britten Studios

This motorized hoist is designed to ease the process of displaying (and changing) a banner in facilities.
Section 179D Reinstated.

Question Of The Week: Section 179D Reinstated

Will you pursue the recently extended Energy-Efficient Commercial Buildings Tax Deduction (Section 179D)?
LED

New Product Flash: UniV8 LED By Forest Lighting

This new line of T8 LED linear lamps are designed to operate with or without a ballast.
workplace

New Service Spotlight: Mobile Mail App From iOffice

A complement to the company's IWMS Mail Module, this new app facilitates mail delivery in an increasingly mobile workplace environment.
3D mapping

New Product Flash: 3D Mapping Partnership From Micello, Inc. And eeGeo

A combined solution from these tech firms aims to deliver interactive visualizations of facility interiors.
Facility Executive of the Year 2016: Keeping Costs In Check

Facility Executive of the Year 2016: Keeping Costs In Check

In Hamilton County, OH, Ralph W. Linne, director of county facilities, tames management tasks with technology and shapes a long-term energy plan.
LED lighting

New Service Spotlight: Universal LED Bulb Finder From Super Bright LEDs

This online tool aims to simplify selection process for facility managers converting from incandescent, fluorescent, or halogen bulbs to LED lighting.
drones

New Product Flash: Drone Detector By Drone Labs

Using radio radio frequency detection, this equipment identifies drones up to 1,000 meters.
ADA

Question Of The Week: Utilizing Universal Design?

With overlap with requirements for ADA compliance, universal design is a focus on making environments and products more usable, safer and healthier in response to the needs of an increasingly diverse population.
Webinar, Facility Capital Improvements

Join Our Webinar! Maximizing Value For Facility Capital Improvements

A panel of Facility Management leaders will discuss long-term planning challenges and answer questions about maximizing the value of conducting a Facility Condition Assessments (FCA).
Fault detection and diagnosis (FDD) webinar

Did You Miss Our “Building Analytics, Skilled Labor Shortages & Decarbonization” Webinar?

View this free video webinar to learn how fault detection and diagnostics (FDD) has become a critical part of the resilient facility team’s tech stack.

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