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By organizing and assessing existing inventory data, managers can manage storerooms more cost-effectively. Key Takeaways: Cleaning and standardizing inventory data before implementing or upgrading a CMMS can uncover duplicate, obsolete and excess inventory, creating significant cost-saving opportunities. Strategic sourcing helps organizations reduce inventory costs, improve supplier relationships and increase operational efficiency by focusing on total…

  The first phase of a $7-billion, 15-year plan to redevelop 55 acres around Chicago’s United Center sports arena with housing, retail, entertainment space and a public plaza formally launched June 3 with a groundbreaking ceremony. Known as the 1901 project, the expansive mixed-use development on the city’s west side includes the following team members:…

Walk onto any industrial facility floor, and you’ll likely spot layers of personal protective equipment (PPE) safeguarding workers: hard hats for maintenance crews, safety glasses in mechanical rooms, hearing protection in high-noise environments, flame-resistant clothing in hot work zones, and self-retracting lifelines and harnesses at elevated sites. The equipment is visible, essential, and mandated by…

The global workforce has found its post-pandemic equilibrium, stabilizing around structured hybrid models, according to a new report from JLL. But with hybrid work here to stay, will more organizations turn to artificial intelligence (AI) to boost occupancy planning and management? JLL’s Global Occupancy Planning Benchmark Report 2026 draws on insights from 84 organizations representing…

When facilities managers review maintenance priorities, focus often falls on visible internal areas such as floors, entrances, communal spaces and high-traffic walkways. Yet some of the most operationally important parts of a facility sit outside the building itself. Loading bays, service yards, stairways and access routes all play a critical role in keeping sites functioning…

  Large infrastructure projects rarely fail because there isn’t enough work to do. If anything, the opposite is true. Across energy, transportiont, housing and digital infrastructure, demand is accelerating at a scale the industry has not seen in decades. The challenge is delivering it. Construction sits at the center of a roughly $13-trillion global industry,…