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SupplyHouse moves its trades scholarships and giving under a new foundation
The online plumbing and HVAC distributor consolidated its Track to the Trades scholarships and nonprofit giving into the SupplyHouse Foundation.
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Data Centers Strain Traditional Facilities Software, Vendor Says
A Facilities Dive opinion piece says data center growth is exposing gaps in facilities software, citing JLL's 2026 growth projections.
Brivo Adds Schlage XE360 Wi-Fi Lock, Claims 70% Lower Cost Per Door
Brivo says its Schlage XE360 RealSync integration cuts access-control cost per door up to 70% versus hardwired systems, using existing Wi-Fi.
Hospital HVAC Energy Use: Compliance Limits Efficiency Options
HVAC drives up to 55% of hospital energy use, and health codes limit common savings tactics, per Consulting-Specifying Engineer.
Smart Buildings: Digital Twins, Edge BMS and PoE Raise Questions
Recent coverage of digital twins, edge computing and Power over Ethernet points to a common theme: adoption depends on process and integration ownership.
US banks hold $5.81T in real estate loans, and the 'loan' label hides very different deals
FRED shows real estate loans at $5.81T in July 2026. Two REBusinessOnline deals show how sponsors are mixing fixed-rate refis and tax credit equity.
Touchless upgrades scale only when hospitals can name assets and connect IWMS and BAS
FMLink and an April 2026 review in Advanced Engineering Informatics describe rising use of automated facility assets and digital technologies, and note ongoing
Smart buildings are being judged on avoided downtime, not dashboards
ABB case studies and new facilities research point to the same shift: smart building programs are being judged on avoided downtime, not prettier BMS screens.
Industrious’ 15 DMV coworking sites signal how flex is reshaping office planning
Bisnow reporting points to 3–5 years of lease churn downtown, while Industrious expands in D.C. Operators are rewriting space specs around flexibility.
What Can Happen When Hotel Cooling Systems Are Overlooked?
Explore why proactive cooling system maintenance is critical in hotels. Learn how invisible infrastructure failures impact guest experience and property…
San Francisco’s annual energy benchmark turns compliance into a yearly workflow
San Francisco’s 2025 energy benchmark is due May 1, 2026, and the city now ties reporting, audits, and renewable power sourcing into one compliance workflow.
39% of organizations now use mobile credentials, and access control is moving to IT
HID and SDM data point to faster adoption of mobile IDs, open standards, and AI analytics. Operators need to buy access control like an identity platform.
Culture awards are becoming a way to gauge how monitoring centers run
TMA and Top Workplaces awards are surfacing hard-to-ignore signals for operators: training design, retention, and service consistency.
Nuveen Green Capital’s $1B C-PACE fund helps pay for HVAC and building controls
Nuveen Green Capital’s Fund IV passed $1B at first close, aiming for $1.2B. For operators, it’s another path to finance HVAC, envelopes, and controls when senio
Access control upgrades are shifting to IT identity, not new doors
Cloud access platforms are adding SSO, MFA, and video integrations while retrofit-first approaches push upgrades onto existing openings instead of rip-and-replace projects.
Security entrances are being specced like IT controls, not lobby hardware
Boon Edam is pitching entrances as a cyber and safety control, while new research warns quantum computing will stress today’s cryptography across cloud and infr
Access control upgrades are moving to door retrofits and hybrid cloud systems
Operators are modernizing access control without ripping out doors, pushing demand for retrofit-friendly hardware and open, hybrid deployments.
Frisco’s indoor digital twins show where smart buildings really begin
Frisco, Texas, turned indoor mapping for school response into a building-ops asset. The bigger signal: keeping the data current, not the modeling, is the hard part.
Axis Powered by Genetec ships door controllers with access control software preloaded
Genetec and Axis are shipping preloaded door controllers as access control moves to the edge.
Facilities teams are being asked to run security like an ops system
Facilities management and security leaders are converging around access control modernization, service-network models, and continuity planning.
Accelsius’ first IR150 install puts two-phase cooling into data center training playbooks
EdgeConneX is deploying Accelsius' IR150 two-phase cooling racks at its Global Training Center to standardize technician training on next-gen liquid cooling.
Digital twins are making BAS teams clean up naming and data before HVAC upgrades
Early adopters say digital twins fail without clean BAS data. That’s reshaping how ops teams scope HVAC electrification and controls rollouts.
CRE hiring wave follows billion-dollar industrial deals
A $1.2B industrial buy and a $672M IOS refinance are landing as brokerages build benches in industrial, capital markets and leasing.
Crayons CRM cut 47 leasing calls a week, something print shops have seen before
Pure Real Estate’s Crayons CRM shows how self-serve Q&A and image analysis can remove routine calls, echoing print’s push to automate the front office.
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