Tag: Exteriors

In the United States, water damage accounts for a staggering $11 billion of insurance claims each year, and is a cause of trouble for insurance companies and facility managers alike.

With temperatures dropping below freezing around the country, it’s important to be prepared for the cold weather’s effect on your water pipes.

With gingerbread house construction a tradition for many this time of year, it may also be time to ensure the integrity of facility exteriors.

With its roots in healthcare, Sun Health formed a partnership with the Banner Health system that eventually led to a new focus for the company—from that of an acute care provider to a healthy living provider.

Building envelope improvements often rank at or near the top of the facility team’s to-do list, since they generally provide an attractive return on investment.

Permeable Pavements, a new book from ASCE, provides current guidance for the design, construction, and maintenance of permeable pavement systems that provide transportation surfaces and manage stormwater and urban runoff drainage using interlocking pavers.

New Yorkers may have a reputation for not being the friendliest of folks when they're busy trying to get from here to there. So what gives with them chatting with, and even hugging, a street lamp?

This guide will help you prepare your facilities’ facades, roofs, plazas, and parking garages for the intense storm systems predicted for this winter.

ARMA provides tips on how you can save money and protect your facility's roof.

In at least two cities, a new approach to discourage peeing in inappropriate places could leave public urinators wet and smelly.

The standard, in part, will address the importance of safety in electrical devices in landscape irrigation controllers while establishing a basis to ensure the safety, function, and durability of common electrical devices.

This product allows water and fine particulates to flow through gutter systems while keeping out leaves and other debris.

This LED floodlight is designed for exterior applications.

Rain Bird, an Azusa, CA manufacturer and provider of irrigation products and services, has partnered with The Greenwater Foundation in support of its Groundwater...

This Web Exclusive article is contributed by Tim Croll, manager of business development for FXI Building Products Corporation, maker of Leaf Defier® gutter protection...

This heater is designed to provide outdoor comfort heat to spectators in open air stadiums.

The manufacturer of portable heated matting products has added four partners to its distribution network.

Keep America Beautiful has announced the organizations that have been awarded $2,500 grants through the 2010 Graffiti Hurts Grant Program.

This article by Cameron Riddell, president of Bird Barrier America, highlights the threats birds pose to FM budgets.

This emergency and/or non-emergency roof leak response service is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.