Posts Tagged ‘energy efficiency’
FSG Supports City of Dallas Smart City Pilot Project
Award-Winning Red Cloud Neighborhood Project Claims Top Global Honor for 2023 According to a City of Dallas press release, the city was the big winner when the 2023 Smart 50 Awards were announced earlier this year. The awards recognize the top 50 “smart cities” projects around the world in a given year, and this year…
Read MorePrivate School Leaders: Are Facility Challenges Keeping You From Doing What You Love?
Across the country today, private school enrollment data reflects a clear trend. Since 2020 and the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, private schools are seeing more parents and prospective students touring their facilities and asking questions about moving away from public schools. With the worst of the pandemic behind us, one might expect to see…
Read MoreUpgrading Industrial Lighting Without Downgrading Productivity
From the design team to the sales team to the project management team, along with the customer, everyone has to come together and figure out solutions to the different obstacles you come across.
Read MoreThe Great Fluorescent Phase Out: US State Legislatures Push for Full Transition to LED
Across the country, businesses and facility owners are all feeling the pinch of rising energy costs. Compounding the problem is the fact that this is occurring during a time of generalized inflation, supply chain disruptions and delays, and dour economic forecasts. And yet, the news is not all bad. Even as one indicator after another…
Read MoreWhy Energy Efficiency is Important for Your Small Business
Business owners might look back fondly on a time when embracing energy efficiency felt like a forward-thinking, friendly kind of gesture toward someone interesting, a person you might want to get to know better someday. Early efforts to conserve electricity were like the polite side hugs or “attaboy” pats on the back associated with casual…
Read MoreCommercial Building Retrofits Deliver Transformation and Sustainability
If your commercial building is currently in the design and planning phase, congratulations are in order! You are in the perfect position to review your plans and take the first steps toward peak energy efficiency and long-term sustainability with your new facility. Net-zero ready building construction is a hot trend across the country, and there…
Read MoreThe Heat is On: Reducing Commercial Energy While Keeping Cool This Summer
Across the U.S. southwest, folks are starting to really feel the heat of summer a little bit earlier than usual this year. In Arizona and Nevada, record-breaking temperatures are in the forecast. In Texas, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), still apologizing for the “Snovid-21” power outages that hit the state during a February…
Read MoreHealthcare Facility Management: The Difficult Truth
Across the shifting landscape of the U.S. healthcare system, individual hospitals and integrated networks of managed facilities are in a constant battle to meet the demands of the market while providing excellent patient care. For facility managers in charge of maintaining the hospitals, clinics, and diagnostic centers that constitute the front lines of healthcare in…
Read MoreWhat Can Facility Managers Do To Make Their Buildings More Eco-friendly?
With the current state of climate change, damage to wildlife, and a rising threat to our natural habitat, the world is aware of the effects of our day-to-day activities on the earth. The major culprits; greenhouse gas emissions, plastic waste, toxic compounds, and radiation come from well-known sources like vehicles, factories, and humans. However, an…
Read MoreHow to Reduce Commercial Energy Usage
The United States Department of Energy (DOE) has previously found that the building sector makes up 76 percent of electricity use in the United States. It also causes 40 percent of the country’s primary energy use and associated greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Because of this, improving commercial energy consumption can have a huge impact on…
Read MoreNavigating Military Base Logistics to Improve Energy Efficiency
For the United States government, energy efficiency is massively important. Not only do all areas of government need to provide their assigned services, but they also need to do so while cutting costs and conserving resources. “The Department of Defense recognizes over 47,000 structures that fall under federal energy efficiency guidelines. But as of 2015,…
Read MoreHow Much Do LED Lights Save Per Year?
How good is a product if the process to install it leaves you confused? How beneficial is a solution if it continually disrupts your day-to-day operations?
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