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Facilities Management articles for the week of 5/17/2026 - 5/23/2026

Smart Visitor Management is Reshaping the Modern Building

isitor management used to be simple: a clipboard, a pen and a temporary badge.  Today, it’s a dynamic, data-driven ecosystem that touches access control, cybersecurity, mobile credentials, artificial intelligence (AI), elevators, HVAC systems and tenant retention strategies.  That shift presents opportunities and complexities for facility managers.  “When I started in the industry, it was all pen, paper and visitor logbooks,” says Andrew Campagnola, chair of the Security Industry Association’s (SIA) Built Environment Advisory Board and director of product management at Kastle.

Read This » Inside Purdue University's Grounds Strategy for a Healthy, Vibrant Campus

Grounds managers and their staffs at higher education facilities are under constant scrutiny in their efforts to ensure campus turf areas, plants and hardscapes look their best at all times.

Read This » Professor Study Seeking FMs, Technicians for Interviews

ey takeaways: Facility managers and technicians are being recruited for interviews to help develop safer building design practices that reduce long-term maintenance hazards.

Read This » Dissecting Your Facility Energy Bill

ey Takeaways: Facility energy bills are often far more complex than simple usage multiplied by cost, due to varying state regulations, deregulated markets, demand charges and layered supply, delivery and environmental fees.

Read This » What Facilities Management Looks Like Inside a World-Class Art Museum 

Coming at you live at NFMT East in Charlotte! Host Mackenna Moralez speaks with Claude Harding, security and facilities manager for the Bechtler Museum of Modern Art.

Read This » Safety Through Redundancy: Expanding Emergency Alerts on Campus

nstitutional and commercial buildings that are part of public complexes or campuses present unique safety considerations when it comes to sending alert notifications to occupants dispersed over a wide space.

Read This » Mowing Decisions That Make the Cut at Purdue University

igher education is competitive, even outside the classroom.

Read This » Energy Assessments: Six Steps to Building Value, Cost Control and Sustainability

ost commercial real estate teams already know how to look at a building’s physical condition.

Read This » Designing Data Centers for Long-Term Coexistence

he continuous acoustic signature of data center operation is a critical issue for local communities.

Read This » Effective Pest Prevention Starts Outdoors

Pest problems rarely begin inside institutional and commercial facilities — they start outside, where small oversights can quickly allow pests to multiply.

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