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Discover the power of sustainability messaging to motivate your workforce. Learn effective strategies to engage employees in sustainable behaviors.

A project designed with sustainability in mind will naturally produce better results than one that requires integrating sustainability elements later on.

Assembling and engaging knowledgeable and passionate staff to be a part of your Green Team is truly the key to making a difference when it comes to your energy and sustainability performance.

Mercy Willard embarked on a multi-year journey to align its operations with its high efficiency design and achieve ENERGY STAR® certification.

New features offer a clean, user-friendly interface for quick interpretation relevant to sophisticated and novice users alike.

New strategies of varying capability were implemented across health care systems.

Energy-as-a Service (EaaS) is a partnership between energy systems experts and professionals who are saddled with facility operations.

Energy is a critical, high-use resource that accounts for more than 2% of operating costs.

As you select healthy, environmentally friendly solutions for your next project, take a closer look at solenoid-driven hardware.

As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare leaders are tasked with providing the gold standard of sanitary environments and clean air while delivering on their energy savings targets.

The health care infrastructure is also a key candidate for digital transformation.

ANSI/ASHRAE/ASHE Standard 170 offers guidance, regulation and mandates to designers and operators of health care facilities. The revised 2021 edition incorporates 17 addenda to the 2017 standard.

A step-by-step guide for developing a comprehensive integrated fire protection and life safety inspection, testing and maintenance (ITM) program for health care facilities. This timely publication will support facilities managers ahead of CMS’s adoption of NFPA 101-2018 (or later), which will require integrated life safety ITM for all high-rise buildings.

Best practices for financing energy sustainability are described with an emphasis on helping hospitals and associated decision-makers – including professionals from supply chain, facilities, finance, sustainability, and public health – navigate the challenges associated with investing in the carbon reduction goals that health care is being asked to implement.

Get insights into the regulatory requirements and maintenance recommendations for smoke control systems in hospitals.

Introduction to Health Care Facilities Management: This award-winning, in-depth 130+ page introductory book provides an orientation to the dynamic field of health care facilities management. Along the way, we provide tips and anecdotes from seasoned health care professionals that will be valuable to newcomers, engaging to experienced HFMs and thought-provoking to other health care professionals.

A review and compilation of the recommended controls for ventilation systems in treatment and isolation areas in health care facilities.

Improve your facility's reliability with Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM). Download the CMMS tool.

Classification schemas are designed to provide health care planners, designers, and operators with a common nomenclature, and to generate these benefits for health care facilities departments.

ASHE's medical air testing tool is the key to a reliable and efficient medical gas system.