Facilities Management articles for the week of 3/29/2026 - 4/4/2026

We Find a Way

on’t laugh, facility executives, but we have a lot in common.  We both manage staff and budgets.

Read This » All-Electric, All New: Inside UCI Health’s Ground-Up Hospital

n a profession that generally involves maximizing the performance of aging, compromised facilities, Joe Brothman and his team achieved the rarest of rare accomplishments — designing and taking charge of a brand new, state-of-the-art, all-electric facility.

Read This » How Technology Is Reshaping Landscape Maintenance

s sustainability goals grow more ambitious and technology more complex, grounds and landscape managers have discovered there is truth in this phrase: It isn’t easy being green.  Maintaining landscapes around institutional and commercial buildings in sports facilities and in parks has become increasingly complex.

Read This » Communication Has an Essential Role in Emergency Drills

When you’re responsible for a facility that welcomes thousands of people, safety can’t be an afterthought — it must be built into everything you do.

Read This » Challenges, Strategies and Priorities for Successful Facilities

he challenges facing institutional and commercial facilities are well known to engineering and maintenance managers and directors.

Read This » AI, Labor Shortages and Code Uncertainty

oday’s facility managers must steer their organizations down a highway marked by artificial intelligence (AI), automation, changing building codes and shrinking labor pools.  And there’s no exit ramp in sight.  According to the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), the road ahead will test facility manager’s technical expertise and redefine what it means to navigate the built environment.

Read This » 4 Steps to Designing with Reality Capture Technology

istorically, building management and design processes have been built on incomplete or unclear information: measurements scribbled in margins, rough sketches that aim to convey complex ideas and estimates filling in the blanks where information could not be verified in time.  Now, new technologies allow building owners to see their facilities exactly as they are, in all their complexity and detail, without having to step outside an office.  Reality capture technology allows design teams to plan with clarity, design with confidence and build a future grounded in reality.

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