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  Chicago shopping landmark Water Tower Place is slated to receive a $170-million overhaul, which is planned to reduce retail space and add office, medical and other commercial spaces—a move reflecting a wider trend of reimagining struggling enclosed malls as urban mixed-use properties with offerings that go beyond shopping. City-based Pepper Construction is general contractor for…

Back to Basics is an article series that highlights important, but possibly overlooked, information facilities management professionals should know. One of the key benefits of an HVAC system is that it can manage cooling, heating, and ventilation in an integrated system with minimal day-to-day input from facilities managers. It keeps a space cool, warm, and ventilated in…

A new report from Avetta offers insights into how organizations are improving safety outcomes across increasingly complex global operations. Chiefly, it shows that while foundational supply chain risk management capabilities and improved visibility both contribute to fewer serious health and safety incidents, the most significant improvements—up to 97% lower workplace fatality rates—occur when these capabilities…

Most commercial real estate teams already know how to look at a building’s physical condition. That is why a facility condition assessment (FCA) works well. The data-driven and systematic inventory of building and site infrastructure components helps building owners and executives understand its operational condition, document observed deficiencies and forecast the maintenance, repair and capital…

  Designing healthcare facilities with the same rigor applied to clinical programming creates environments where clinicians want to stay. The specialty workforce shortage in healthcare is widely understood as a human resources crisis. Healthcare organizations are likely to face a shortage of more than 141,000 physicians across all specialties by 2038, according to the Health…

When Maryland state officials gathered May 7 for installation of the last light rail segment on the Purple Line, it marked the winding down of a decades-long journey for the 16.2-mile, 21-station project set to connect two well-developed Washington, D.C., suburban counties in one of the largest U.S. transit public-private partnerships. Buffeted for years by…