At University of Washington, a stairwell of seven flights took 30 minutes to clean with a standard backpack vacuum and only 10 minutes to clean with the ProTeam cordless backpack.
The learning curve for understanding and utilizing intelligent buildings can be steep—a fact Dale Klein of Parallel Technologies is well aware of. Having seen the rise and development of intelligent buildings in the K-12 education space, Dale speaks with the magazine about some of the general and K-12-specific elements of intelligent buildings and how the technologies are progressing.
Having a solid institutional human resources office and shrewd chief human resource officer (CHRO) is critical when it comes to attracting top campus talent. John Thornburgh of Witt/Kieffer speaks with the magazine about the present and future roles of the HR department and CHRO in higher education.