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As copper POTS networks get phased out, facilities face a transition jam
The sooner building operators identify what critical devices like fire alarms are on legacy copper lines, the sooner they can ensure they’re not caught without connectivity and risk compliance violations, experts say.
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Resilience the focus of incoming ASHRAE president
Climate and infrastructure challenges mean facilities professionals must work together to improve building performance, Colliers Project's Sarah Maston said at the organization’s conference.
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Military research facilities falling into disrepair, report says
Aging infrastructure is hampering the country’s ability to maintain a technically advanced warfighting capability, says the Defense Research Enterprise Review.
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Facilities management conferences of note in 2026
Here’s a look at the top events for building operators and their staffs happening in the second half of the year.
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Deep DiveData centers are ready to negotiate flexibility for speed
The “pain point” between data centers and utilities is the utilities’ need for control and data centers’ need to choose how to respond to a utility signal for a load reduction, says an industry expert.
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Allowing guns in stores is the default, Supreme Court says
In shooting down a Hawaii law, the top court puts the onus on owners of public-facing private property to say guns are prohibited if they want to keep their property gun-free.
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ASHRAE to tackle data centers, thermal systems at annual conference
The engineering society’s annual meeting, starting this weekend in Austin, Texas, will have programs on managing energy costs and integrating energy storage projects, among others.
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$2.1B Buffalo Bills stadium boasts world’s largest snow-melt system
The 60,000-seat venue has heated concourses, radiant heating above some seats and a 360-degree canopy covering 64% of the seating bowl.
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ABM grows its sports-arena portfolio with Atlanta Braves janitorial contract
The company touts the system it will use for communicating with and tracking the location of its cleaning staff while they’re at Truist Park.
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New Honeywell tool ‘purges’ CO as part of fire safety improvements
The tool removes carbon monoxide and adds fresh air to reduce harmful levels in affected areas when an alarm is triggered, the company says.
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Microsoft claims 2025 water replenishment milestone
The tech giant said it replenished more water than its operations used in 2025, as it looks to become “water positive” by 2030.
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Madison Square Garden falling death was second in three years
Proptech executive Paul Kueker died June 20 after a 150-foot fall at the New York arena during a concert.
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Free air, energy and water monitoring tools awarded to 14 school districts
Smart building company Attune worked with nonprofits to give selected school districts access to its tools and integration support through a program it launched this year.
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OpinionPeriodic inspections alone can no longer keep aging buildings safe
On the five-year anniversary of the Surfside condominium building collapse, a building safety specialist highlights the importance of structural monitoring systems.
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K-12 schools can soften energy-cost hikes with performance contracts, Ameresco chief says
The contracts offer a way for school districts to lock in costs as electricity prices rise, says Louis Maltezos, co-president of the energy infrastructure company.
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Leveraging LED lighting’s decorative versatility to create facility value
Philadelphia generated $12 million in economic value by illuminating its historic city hall, one of several examples of the lighting’s benefits, an architectural lighting company says in a report.
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Feds dispensing $121M for agricultural research facility upgrades
Land-grant universities and other institutions can get up to $30 million for property improvements, but the money requires a one-to-one match. Application deadline is July 17.
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BGO to use Visitt AI tools at 300 properties
The technology will help the property manager scale maintenance and tenant engagement across 46 million square feet, the company says.
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GETs, demand response can ease near-term data center electricity price pressure: report
Data centers could use up to 15% of all U.S. electricity by 2030, up from 5% in 2024, Berkeley Lab researchers said in a separate analysis.
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DOJ intervenes on behalf of xAI in data center gas turbine lawsuit
The Department of Defense said the xAI data center powered by the gas plant is critical to national security, revealing Grok was used to fire thousands of missiles in the Iran war.
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Major commercial real estate brokers, CoStar hit with antitrust lawsuit
CBRE, JLL, Cushman & Wakefield, Colliers and Newmark were all named as alleged conspirators in a price-fixing scheme via CoStar’s sharing real-time, confidential, property-level lease transaction data.
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Budderfly and Viridi team up to install “fail-safe” batteries at commercial facilities
Coupled with other efficiency measures offered through Budderfly’s energy-as-a-service solution, on-site batteries can reduce facilities’ energy expenses by up to 70%, Budderfly CEO Al Subbloie said.
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Companies are struggling to integrate climate resilience enterprise-wide
While they increasingly are aware of physical climate risk, companies find it difficult to turn that recognition into climate resilience, according to a new paper.
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OpinionHow cycling HVAC systems to cooling creates IAQ risks
When outdoor humidity rises faster than a building’s systems can compensate, seasonal transitions drive humidity fluctuations that building envelopes and HVAC systems weren’t always designed to handle.
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Heat pump shipments rise through April, with more use for both heating and cooling
Ongoing legal battles regarding non-condensing commercial gas water heaters and residential gas furnaces have not yet slowed U.S. gas storage water-heat shipments, AHRI data shows.
