 According to researchers, the average person spends 90% of their lives indoors, or 72 years of an 80 year life (1). Before the pandemic, the idea of a healthy building was gaining in popularity and some of the concepts like noise reduction and healthy light seemed like good ideas, but hardly urgent or pressing to update. As the COVID-19 pandemic nears the two year mark, facility managers know all too well at this point the health concerns people have inside of their buildings and it primarily deals with one of those healthy building concepts - air quality. As Amazon’s chief health officer, Vin Gupta, recently stated, the biggest health challenge for public and work spaces this century will be ventilation and air quality (1). So what does it mean for a building to have healthy air quality, how does this change what it means to be a smart building and what can you do to stay in front of this change? Let’s take a closer look.
 Recently, MasterLibrary's company president, Tom Rauscher, wrote an article for IFMA's FMJ on the people and technology skills need to be a next-gen facility manager. Tom provides helpful tips and ideas for facility professionals that are expected to lead the facilities of tomorrow for their districts.
To read the article and learn more, please follow this link.  We held our Quarter 3 User Group webinar last week to highlight some of the new features that were released this past quarter. As our product line expands, these user group meetings are even more important for you, the user, to stay current on the features that are being added. Below is a recap of some of the content that was covered. As always, a big thanks to our passionate users who provide us with many of the new feature ideas each quarter.
With that, let's take a closer look!  What does it take to become a Next-Gen Facility Manager? We wrote an eBook on it and even published an article in IFMA’s Facility Manager's Journal (FMJ) recently on the topic.
The next logical step is, of course, was YouTube! We are excited to announce our new YouTube channel for Next-Gen Facility Manager. The goal of the channel is to provide facility managers with real life tips and stories to help them manage their teams, facilities and technology. 
Learn the practical applications, challenges and benefits of implementing EFR in this recorded Lunch and Learn seminar through the NYSSFA. Joe Magliocca walks through his first hand experience as the Director of Facilities at Elmira City School District.
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