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How COVID-19 Relief Funds Can Be Leveraged to Protect Your Students  When the country shut down during COVID, schools were at the top of nearly everyone’s concern. With three separate pieces of legislation, Congress ensured that educators and school administrators had plenty of resources to update HVAC and air circulation systems. Even when COVID is a chapter in a history

If there’s one place where comfort matters, it’s a hospital setting. Ambient temperature is a key driver of occupant comfort in all environments, and the needs of a hospital are some of the most complex that we encounter when designing building automation systems. Factors to Consider Studies have shown that people’s physical and psychological health is affected by the thermal

Let’s get one thing out of the way quickly before we dive into this topic: it’s impossible to please every person with the temperature in an office environment. Due to biological factors such as body size, gender, age, metabolic rate, and more, people perceive temperature differently. However, research has shown that the temperature of office environments does have an impact

Net zero, or carbon neutrality, means achieving a balance between the greenhouse gases put into the atmosphere and those taken out. From commercial businesses to educational institutions, reducing carbon emissions is a top sustainability goal for environmentally conscious organizations. And with so many workers and students returning to in-person environments in 2021, there’s a greater sense of urgency to reduce

Businesses are focused on finding their “new normal,” and deciding exactly what that will look like. Employees who plan on heading back into the office after spending considerable time away have increased expectations for a supportive and inclusive working environment. Many of these expectations fall on facility managers and directors, who are finding their goals shaped by changing employee expectations.

Most facility managers and building engineers are aware of how costly your building’s lighting and HVAC are to operate- a facility’s heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning system represents over 15% (on average) of overall electric consumption. According to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), nearly 30% of that represents loss due to aging, insufficiently maintained, or ineffective equipment. What Does a