The winter months are when schools, healthcare facilities, offices, and many other types of locations become very concerned about infection control. Fortunately...
High-rise facilities typically employ numerous safeguards above and beyond most non-high-rise buildings. Additional requirements regarding the number of fire sp...
Mobile service subscribers – your tenants and occupants – demand clear, consistent mobile services no matter where they are. To address the demand of mobile cov...
As we near the height of hurricane season and see the damaging results of massive rains in areas like Baton Rouge, building managers must understand what’s at r...
After a skyscraper has been around for a few years, for some of us, it begins to fade into the skyline. And after a few decades, when buildings begin to wear ar...
In packed high-rise districts, open green space is highly desirable, though not always so easily incorporated or executed. Yet the investment of time, energy, a...
The ability to notify tenants and occupants of an emergency situation is no longer just a nice option for commercial buildings to have. From an active shooter s...
Everyone is interested in lowering their costs. Monitoring power and energy consumption offers a way to accomplish that goal in a large commercial space.
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Reliable, properly maintained elevators are critical to the safety and performance of any high-rise building. The best way to safeguard that reliability and ens...
Otis China will build a new elevator test tower in Shanghai as part of a new global research and development facility. Planned at approximately 270 meters (885 ...
When the first terrorist bomb attack happened at the New York City World Trade Center (WTC) in 1993, the explosion in the parking garage disabled the WTC’s main...
The training is complete. The employees leave with their notebooks and go back to their offices. The notebooks go on the shelf. The crisis and emergency action ...
A building integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) system integrates photovoltaic modules into the building envelope itself: typically in the roof or façade (or both). ...
In any metropolitan area, iconic green high-rises are a powerful testament to architectural innovation. They have created working environments that allow busine...
Hallway light fixtures, integrated with IT capabilities, may soon be able to communicate with electricity providers, dimming during spikes in city-wide electri...
When potential tenants come knocking, a marquee address, square-footage, floor plans and breathtaking high-rise views aren’t the only things they are looking fo...
The cost of elevator preventive maintenance continues to be on the rise. Additionally, recent industry trends with maintenance agreements now containing obsoles...
The greatest fear for anyone in an emergency situation is that they will not know what to do. No matter how many times we go through a fire drill or other Emerg...
Last month, Portman and Georgia Institute of Technology gathered civic and business leaders in a parking lot on Atlanta's Tech Square to announce Coda, a new “C...
Concrete, brick, steel, and low-e glass can all block or distort signals – whether wireless, cellular, or RF. In tall towers that accommodate a large number of ...
