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You’ve heard that every ending is a new beginning? It's true for Building Operating Management . Key players on this magazine’s editorial team take on new roles. Naomi Millán, our senior editor, becomes editor of Building Operating Management . Greg Zimmerman, our executive editor, becomes editor of Facilitiesnet.com. At the same time, Dan Weltin becomes editor-in-chief of the facility group. I...

Underneath my college campus was a labyrinth of tunnels. Late one night I joined a group of friends to explore this mysterious subterranean world. We walked through an unlocked door in the basement of an old building and surfaced, in the wee hours of the morning, in the university’s central plant building. It was a claustrophobic journey into the past. Probably 20 years earlier, the tunnels had been pressed into...

The “new normal” is the bland phrase we use to describe our adjusted expectations after a disruption to the way we live or work. It emerges gradually as we take small steps from the old ways into the unknown. Even before COVID-19 hit, the facility management profession had been moving toward a new normal for years. So had media companies. For both facility managers and content developers, the pandemic has...

Platforms are turning up all over the place in facilities. There are platforms for single products and platforms for the entire building, off-the-shelf platforms and custom platforms. Some platforms are based in the cloud, and some are located on devices in facilities. Familiar products like building automation systems and integrated workplace management systems can be platforms and so can the emerging generation of Building...

In the past two decades, facility managers have had to deal with hurricanes, floods, fires, and pandemics. Many of those have had devastating local or regional consequences. But none has matched the global impact of the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak. Still, a look back at the way that facility leaders have responded to disasters of the recent past shows a common thread: a keen awareness of the human cost of the disaster and...