Black & Veatch has partnered with FATHOM Water Management, Inc., to offer ASSET360™ data analytics applications on their recently launched online marketplace. The FATHOM Store allows water utilities to purchase and quickly adopt smart analytics services, risk-free.
HP has committed to a “zero deforestation” goal by 2020, striving for a day when all HP paper and paper-based product packaging (defined as the box that comes with the product and all in-the-box packaging and materials) will be derived from certified and recycled sources.
Centennial, Colo., June 30, 2016 /3BL Media/ - Arrow Electronics selected Toby Fraley’s “The Archivist” as the winner of the Cherry Creek Arts Festival’s Five Years Out Arrow Art Challenge, a national contest that inspires artists to take the concept of innovation and express what Arrow’s Five Years Out brand promise looks like in an artistic medium.
MicroBuild is an investment fund launched by Habitat for Humanity, one of the world’s leading champions of affordable housing and an organization whose builds attract the enthusiastic participation of MetLife associates every year. Habitat launched MicroBuild to demonstrate the viability of housing-focused microloans as an effective financial tool for lower-income households in the developing world.
Green-e Energy seeks feedback on the Green-e Energy International Framework Criteria for Renewable Energy Certification (Framework) and is accepting feedback from all interested stakeholders through 11:59pm Pacific Daylight Saving Time on Monday, August 29, 2016. The Framework will be used to develop high-quality renewable energy standards for Green-e Energy certification, in order to accelerate the development of renewable generation and renewable electricity markets, and provide consumers a meaningful mechanism through which they can express demand for renewable electricity.
It’s the classic chicken-or-the-egg question. If attempting to revolutionize the auto industry, do you introduce the car or the supporting infrastructure first? For Joel Ewanick, the answer was obvious – get the infrastructure in place.
Demands for conflict minerals reporting on the global supply chain are increasing. In addition to existing US legislation and customer requirements, legislation in Europe and China is pending. At this event you will gain insights from thought leaders, OEMs and suppliers that will affect your company in the year ahead. This three-hour event will provide you an update on industry strategies and best practices, IPSA Audits and Smelter Engagement Activities.
Through 2015, Caterpillar has reduced GHG emissions intensity from our facilities by 32 percent compared to our 2006 base year. From 2014 to 2015, our absolute GHG emissions were reduced by 7 percent. In 2015, several facilities stood out for the success of their efforts in reducing their GHG emissions year over year.
Although I often take it for granted, there is no doubt I’ve benefitted from growing up in the digital age. I’ve been swiping and tapping since I was at least 10. But our community and family members in older generations have not had this luxury. For many, using a smartphone is as foreign to them as using a typewriter is to me.
Local moms from Episcopal Community Services in Philadelphia recently visited a grocery store in their neighborhood to participate in a healthy eating class hosted by Aramark and the American Heart Association.
From small businesses to large conglomerates with facilities across the globe, the daunting task of protecting a building’s infrastructure through quality facilities management looms large over institutions. Sodexo, world leader in Quality of Life Services, has implemented an Asset Management Framework— a set of documents, systems and processes that addresses an organization’s asset management responsibilities— to use with facilities management clients. Sodexo’s Asset Management Framework is designed to meet rigorous ISO:55000 requirements—the international standard in facilities asset management.
In 1986, Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) introduced a new phrase into the general lexicon – the designated driver. Thirty years later, it is a phrase that continues to be used today to describe a non-drinking driver who drives someone who has been drinking.
Now, more than ever before, technology is helping companies focus more time on strategy and measuring their return on investment in social and business objectives.
Walmart and the Walmart Foundation have made a commitment to provide support through cash and in-kind donations of $250,000 to organizations helping with relief efforts for those affected by the floods in West Virginia. Working closely with the Salvation Army, American Red Cross and Team Rubicon, coordination efforts are being made with elected officials and governmental entities across the region to meet the needs of those affected by the overwhelming flooding in the West Virginia region this week.
David Stevens, Manager of Capital Planning for Aramark’s Healthcare Technologies division, has been honored as the company’s 2016 Volunteer of the Year, in recognition of his commitment to volunteer service and leadership in his community.
I have been a Wendy’s Wonderful Kids recruiter for more than four years and have come to crave the adrenaline rush of getting a new child on my caseload, to start learning about this child and the excitement of feeling like I may have just found the family for a child (I have been known to run down the hallway of my office a time or two in celebration).
ISO:55000 sounds like the name for the latest addition to the Star Trek fleet, but it’s actually the international gold standard in facilities asset management. This sounds a lot less exciting, unless, like me, you are focused on improving the Quality of Life for clients and customers in their buildings through an improved Asset Management Framework (AMF). For me, ISO:55000 certification is not only exciting, it’s the pinnacle of achievement!
Solar power is rapidly expanding in the U.S. — by 2015, there was enough solar capacity to power 5.4 million American homes. And the nation’s major cities are leading the revolution to power their metropolises with clean energy and sustainable lifestyles.
The Major League Baseball Players Trust today announced it has awarded a $100,000 grant to the nonprofit Our Military Kids, to assist with the organization’s efforts to provide the children of military personnel with opportunities to fulfill their dreams and aspirations.
