ey Takeaways: Data Holdings’ Milwaukee data center uses multiple layers of redundant power and cooling infrastructure to maintain operations when individual components fail.
Read This » 3 Things Facilities Managers Should Know About Renting MEWPsFor maintenance and engineering managers, renting lifts and mobile elevated work platforms (MEWPs) can provide a practical way to handle everything from lighting and HVAC maintenance to specialized projects without the cost and commitment of purchasing the equipment.
Read This » Preventing Water Damage in Healthcare Facilitiesey Takeaways: Common sources of water damage in healthcare facilities include aging plumbing, HVAC drainage problems, sprinkler discharges, roof leaks and poor exterior grading. Facility managers should identify the five to 10 areas most vulnerable to water damage, document nearby water sources and shutoffs, and address maintenance issues before they cause disruptions. Developing a water-related disaster recovery plan with facility leadership and restoration providers helps clarify emergency responsibilities, prioritize critical spaces and accelerate response efforts. Facilities teams are expected to prevent disruptions while managing constant operational demands.
Read This » Cheers to Our 2026 Facility Championsne of my favorite issues every year is when we get to introduce the latest class of Facility Champions to our readers. This year's recipients represent a diverse set of the institutional and commercial facilities we cover — colleges and universities, K-12 schools, municipal government, commercial buildings and non-profit organizations. The eight honorees each bring their own unique stories to how they found their way into the profession.
Read This » How Healthcare Facilities Can Address Aging Infrastructure Risksey Takeaways: Aging healthcare infrastructure creates interconnected risks, as the failure of one building system can accelerate degradation and affect other critical systems. Reliability-centered maintenance, facility condition assessments and regularly updated capital plans help facility managers identify patterns and address infrastructure problems before they become failures. Facility managers can overcome competing capital priorities by bringing outside perspectives to building assessments and bundling essential infrastructure improvements with more visible, revenue-generating projects. Hospitals are more than just buildings.
Read This » Turning Smart Data into Smarter DecisionsSmart building technology offers building owners and executives opportunities to improve maintenance efficiency, manage energy costs and make better informed decisions about building performance.
Read This » Honoring the Class of 2026 Facility Championsuilding Operating Management is proud to announce the winners of our fifth annual Facility Champions awards.
Read This » Why Compliance is Critical for Facility ManagersMaintenance and engineering managers never want to see their institutional or commercial facilities on the local news following an inspection by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). That possibility should be incentive enough for managers to emphasize that compliance matters with their facilities and maintenance staff.
Read This » Talk It Up, Back It Upraditionally, maintenance and engineering managers have gone out of their way to avoid bragging about their professional accomplishments, and they weren't much more interested in talking up their departments' performance.
Read This » Putting Art in a Better Lightey Takeaways: Balance display with preservation: Tailor lighting to each artwork’s sensitivity, using controlled, diffused daylight where appropriate and excluding it from galleries with highly light-sensitive collections. Design for flexibility and comfort: Integrated lighting, shading, and controls let curators adapt illumination for different objects and exhibitions while supporting a consistent, comfortable visitor experience. Coordinate early to achieve multiple goals: Close collaboration among the university, architects, lighting designers, and museum team helped integrate preservation, energy efficiency, and occupant needs into the design from the outset. The right lighting sets the tone for any institutional and commercial facility.
Read This » From Architecture to Healthcare Facilities Management: How Yanet Vega Carved Her Own Pathrchitecture may have been the starting point, but healthcare facilities management became the career that brought together design, construction, operations and leadership.
Read This » Balancing Security and Fan Experience in Sports Facilitiesey Takeaways: Sports facility owners must balance security measures with the fan experience, prioritizing improvements that address the greatest risks without making venues feel overly restrictive or unwelcoming. Understanding league-wide security expectations, existing building systems and technology integration challenges helps facility managers plan effective upgrades and prepare for future requirements. Emerging technologies such as behavioral measurement systems and digital twins offer opportunities to identify potential safety concerns, simulate crowd movement and test security scenarios without disrupting facility operations. Building owners and facility executives in commercial and institutional facilities of all kinds have had to rethink almost every aspect of security and safety in the last 20 years, from design and access control technology to staffing and resilience. For sports facilities, these challenges have been compounded by one unique aspect no other market faces — intensity. “It’s the excitement that's generated around the teams, the players, the history,” says Robert Koshgarian, national sports director, project and development services, with JLL, a real estate services company.
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