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FMD August Issue Preview
Chillers and Refrigerants
Wake Forest University renovated its South Chiller Plant with a vertical orientation to clear up land space while expanding cooling capacity and bringing much-needed improvements in resiliency and efficiency for WFU’s main campus. The plant's expanded 4800-ton chilled water capacity includes the custom towers and condenser water pumping system with a new headered piping system.
Grounds Equipment Updates
With Equip Expo just around the corner, we interview grounds equipment suppliers about the latest product trends impacting facility maintenance managers and buildings and grounds teams.
Restroom Fixtures
Touchless restroom technology has advanced rapidly, making the technology a standard in commercial and institutional facilities for faucets, toilets, dispensers and other fixtures. Over time, improvements in sensor accuracy, power efficiency, and response times have made these fixtures more user-friendly and cost-effective. Today’s systems also offer features like adjustable settings, Bluetooth connectivity, and real-time maintenance alerts.
Emergency Lighting
Emergency lighting systems in institutional and commercial facilities are overlooked until a power outage occurs due to a natural disaster or an electrical breakdown. In this article, we will profile a facility’s emergency lighting program, examining how managers approach their emergency systems, looking at such topics as how to approach selecting product, installation and testing.
NFMT Remix
A preview of NFMT Remix 2025 in Orlando, Florida (October 15 & 16). Article includes an overview of the event highlights, conference sessions, exhibit hall and networking opportunities, as well as why maintenance managers and directors should attend the event.
Management Insight Column
Columnist Laurie Gilmer offers insights and observations on new-generation facilities management technology, with an emphasis on helping maintenance and engineering managers implement and operate the technology to benefit their facilities and organizations.
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