Author: FM College Admin

A recent report from UMIP Inc. suggests that one of the built environment’s most persistent — and least visible — challenges may also be one of its most expensive: fragmented infrastructure data. The analysis, “The $2 Trillion Infrastructure Identity Gap,” estimates that disconnected and inconsistent lifecycle documentation across buildings and infrastructure systems could contribute to…

For many years, breakthroughs have focused on improving life on Earth through better products, more intelligent systems, and faster processes, but as technology accelerates rapidly and ambitions extend beyond our earthly confines, the question is no longer if we can successfully innovate outside of the planet, but how. It is, therefore, critical to consider what…

A decade ago, crews squeezed construction of San Diego County Regional Airport Authority’s $1-billion Green Build program—including a 445,000-sq-ft expansion of Terminal 2, two 17,000-sq-ft curbside ticket lobbies, an elevated departure roadway, six overpasses, and parking lots—into a 661-acre footprint while operations continued at the nation’s busiest single-runway airport. The sequel, its New Terminal 1,…

  Corporate sustainability spent decades building the case that doing good and doing well aren’t in conflict. It largely won the argument and then fumbled the implementation. Now, sustainability is under fire. But with AI, economic volatility and geopolitics rewriting the rules of business all at once, we have a rare mulligan. While sustainability is…

  Recent years have seen tremendous growth at University of Florida Health (UF Health). To respond to increasing needs, the organization recently expanded through the addition of the new Heart & Vascular and Neuromedicine Hospitals on the UF Health campus. “UF Health is committed to being the best academic health center in the Southeast and…

Women working from home or on reduced hours are at greater risk of losing their professional and managerial careers, but men are not affected, new research suggests. Women professionals not working a standard week in the office were more likely to end up in less prestigious careers than those in full-time work, the study found….