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Fire season is becoming a yearlong endeavor. Key Takeaways:  As wildfire risk expands beyond traditional fire seasons and regions, communities need year-round resilience strategies that address the built environment rather than relying solely on seasonal emergency response. Modern building codes, ignition-resistant construction, defensible space and the International Wildland-Urban Interface Code (IWUIC) provide a comprehensive framework…

  Warehouse spaces offer sustainable opportunities for facility managers. Key Takeaways:  Warehouses present one of the largest untapped opportunities for sustainability, with energy-efficient technologies and rooftop solar capable of significantly reducing emissions and operating costs. Successful warehouse solar projects require careful planning around structural capacity, financial incentives, tenant-owner coordination and integration with batteries, EV charging…

The Foothill Medical Center Association in Foothill Ranch, California, recently energized a 300 kW rooftop and carport solar system at its commercial property, completing a combined solar and roof modernization delivered with a fully financed power purchase agreement. The newly installed system is forecast to generate approximately 506,000 kWh of clean electricity annually, offsetting a…

Endeavor Health Elmhurst Hospital announced the opening of a new 16-bed Patient Observation Unit. The new patient unit marks the first completed project in a major campus expansion designed to enhance healthcare access for the Elmhurst community and surrounding suburbs. Located off the hospital’s East Lobby as an extension of the existing Surgical Observation Unit,…

The question of what the office is for has become harder to answer. For much of its history, the office had a clear practical role. It was where the people, information and equipment needed for work were located. Attendance was largely assumed, and the working week developed around that shared presence. Hybrid working has changed…

  Amtrak has selected STV to develop the preliminary design to replace the Richmond Static Frequency Converter (SFC) #4 in Philadelphia. The facility is Amtrak’s largest traction power converter station and one of the largest railway converter stations in the world, serving Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor between Washington, D.C., and New York City, as well as the Keystone…