Technology & FM Column

As long-held practices are challenged, there is an opportunity for facility management to digitize its acquisition of parts and supplies.

Facilities teams are responsible for multiple areas of compliance for buildings and sites. Is your system really serving you?

Facility managers can use digital twins of their buildings to achieve key outcomes now, and to plan for the future.

When asset maintenance data is readily available, facilities teams improve outcomes across the organization.

If your facilities team has yet to go mobile, consider these four reasons to make the move and steps to get started.

Many companies are embracing a flexible work environment vastly different from the pre-pandemic norm, and apps are one tool to spur this evolution.

Uptime Institute has identified factors expected to impact data center facilities management this year and in the future.

Facility professionals are leveraging established and emerging tech tools to support health and wellness in facilities.

Facility management increasingly sees the benefits of artificial intelligence implementation throughout building operations.

Robust communication helps to keep facility stakeholders informed about evolving conditions and protocols throughout the pandemic, and beyond.

Systematic assessment of OT/IoT infrastructure identifies vulnerabilities that impact not only facilities, but the organization as a whole.

A sound information architecture (IA) strategy is key to realizing the potential of available technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI).

Facility management teams use drones for their own inspection needs, but what about when others fly this equipment over your property?

Seek to identify facility vulnerabilities, and follow up with collaboration between IT and OT to decrease risk to the organization.

The February 2020 issue introduces this year's Facility Executive of the Year. Plus, a look at building envelope issues, workplace redesign, and energy metering.

In an evolving landscape, smart buildings dynamically respond to the immediate and future needs of facility management and occupants.

With a comprehensive strategy, data provided by workspace sensors helps ensure facility space assets are leveraged to their full potential.

Choosing a computerized maintenance management system impacts not only the facilities team, but potentially the entire organization.

In the age of smart buildings, the realm of operational technology needs cyber security equal to those employed for IT systems.

Smart building technology has the potential to deliver many operational benefits, but success ultimately depends on human understanding.