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As organizations repurpose their workplace strategies and plans as a part of their return to office (RTW) initiative, hygiene, health, and wellness remain the top priority for workplaces. In fact, in a recent LinkedIn RTW survey, more than 60% of the respondents voted in favour of hygiene, health & wellness as one of most important initiatives that they wish to see their employers focus on, if they were to come back to work. Over the past two years, in the back drop of the pandemic, there has been societal, institutional, and governmental focus manifested thru legislations, grants, fiscal allocations towards public health, hygiene, and wellness   This in many ways has turned the spot light on health and wellness at workplaces including standards and benchmarks on sustainable and healthy buildings, as well as environments that promote Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI).    Most organizations are taking action on these priorities by investing in ESG ...

The FM industry is facing the challenge of ensuring better IAQ levels for building occupants while optimizing energy costs and aim to achieve net-zero carbon emission for ensuring environment sustainability (ESG agenda).  To address this challenge and to help organizations in achieving the goal of “sustainable IAQ”, enVerid Systems Inc released a white paper suggesting a “Clean First” approach – a 4 step roadmap for achieving sustainable IAQ for buildings.  BACKGROUND The white paper has been published in August 2022 by “enVerid Systems Inc” – solutions provider for sustainable IAQ. To download a pdf copy of the white paper, please visit:  https://enverid.com/resources/learning/how-to-achieve-sustainable-indoor-air-quality-a-roadmap-to-simultaneously-improving-indoor-air-quality-meeting-building-decarbonization-and-climate-resiliency-goals/ ABSTRACT The FM industry is facing the challenge of ensuring better IAQ levels for building occupants while optimizing energy costs ...

The first generation of software for facility management were known as Computer-Aided Facility Management (CAFM) or Facility Management Information Systems (FMIS). In 1980’s CAFM seemed ‘smart’ as integration back then meant one central database connected to other smaller modules and all these modules made use of the central database. Integration of processes, with other systems or even buildings, was way beyond anyone’s imagination. But, as facilities at workplaces became more sophisticated and facilities management broadened to include duties associated with business operations, responsibilities that once belonged to separate departments begin to merge under facilities department. In other words, the scope of facilities management was changing—and quickly. This proved to be the catalyst for the evolution of CAFM into IWMS. Today, IWMS systems are responsible for much broader aspects of management. Moreover, IWMS systems can be integrated with other systems, if necessary, to increase ...