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Participants in the tour will learn first hand how this major institution anticipates future capital improvements using a comprehensive master plan (much like the one featured in TFM's July Showcase.


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Participants in the tour will learn first hand how this major institution anticipates future capital improvements using a comprehensive master plan (much like the one featured in TFM's July Showcase.
03/1/2021
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    Latest: Behind the scenes at Johns Hopkins - Participants in the tour will learn first hand how this major institution anticipates future capital improvements using a comprehensive master plan (much like the one featured in TFM's July Showcase.

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    Behind the scenes at Johns Hopkins

    Participants in the tour will learn first hand how this major institution anticipates future capital improvements using a comprehensive master plan (much like the one featured in TFM's July Showcase.
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    Paper bags and lit candles…not a good combo

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    Green Solutions: A Second Chance For Carpet

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    FM Issue: Resourceful Reduction

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    Sustainable By Design: Save Water While Quenching Cooling Towers

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    A special message about Katrina relief

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    Free humidity guide

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    California Energy Commission offers guide for testing air handling systems

    Other briefs available from PIER at the esource Web site include topics of classroom lighting, small HVAC savings, and hybrid lighting fixtures.
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    Presidential faces get spa treatment

    The cleaning work on Mount Rushmore has been successfully completed. The project involved pressure washing the faces of Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore...
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    Nanontechnology challenges

    Safety, health, and environmental professionals should develop safeguards to protect workers from nanoparticles that could enter their bloodstream or lungs, recommended American Society of...
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    Hurricane follow up

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    9/13/05: Free Web seminar on new National Energy Policy Act

    With the recent signing of the Energy Policy Act of 2005, Itron Inc. will host two online seminars to help understand some of the...
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    Corporate citizenship gaining ground

    Successful global companies are integrating the reporting of their corporate citizenship activities into their firms’ basic business missions, according to a recent report released...
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    CRI partners with Florida DEP's Green Lodging Initiative

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    All about Hurricane Katrina

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    IFMA survey finds "green" building practices growing

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    IFMA survey finds “green” building practices growing

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    Smithsonian Institute buildings deteriorating rapidly

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    Special Report: Broken Bottle Flooring

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    Base closings, round two

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    Katrina [and her waves] hit Florida

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    NYC finally gets serious about subway security

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    Professional Development: Project Cost Saving Strategies

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    Security Trends: The Path of Most Resistance

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    Services & Maintenance: Keep It Clean

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