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As hybrid work increases, hospitality-style amenities and services provide comfort and convenience. Companies requiring employees to be in the office are on the rise: As of October 2024, 75 percent of workers with teleworkable jobs were required to go in at least some of the time, up from 63 percent in February 2023, according to…

The construction industry has invested heavily in digital tools for more than a decade, yet walk any job site and the same problems persist. We’ve spent billions on BIM, digital twins, and visualization software, but still face rework, poor installation quality, and crews checking measurements by hand. Look around and you’ll find tape measures, chalk…

The U.S. Food & Beverage and Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) sectors are confronting unprecedented energy challenges, reveals a new survey jointly authored by AlphaStruxure, Schneider Electric, and Endeavor Business Intelligence. Grid congestion, soaring electricity costs, and macroeconomic uncertainty are delaying expansions and straining supply chains across the food processing sector, according to the Kilowatts into…

Hotel guest rooms are unoccupied around 60% of the time, even when rented. Heating or cooling to 100% occupancy, 100% of the time, equals approximately 40% energy waste. To lessen this waste, the hospitality industry is embracing occupancy-sensing smart thermostats, which allow the building management system to automatically adjust the temperature of unoccupied rooms. The…

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited a fresh-cut vegetable processing company for willfully and repeatedly violating safety requirements after a worker was fatally injured while cleaning and sanitizing a machine, the agency announced Nov. 24. The agency initiated an inspection into Taylor Farms New Jersey Inc. after being notified of a fatality…

  Hospital executives often wrestle with energy decisions made today that either free up budget for patient care or drain resources that could go elsewhere. CFOs do not wake up thinking about kilowatt-hours. Board members are not losing sleep over lighting retrofits. The reality is that the list of concerns for executives running healthcare organizations,…