BUILDINGS Podcast

Resilience starts with a roof you can trust to protect your building.

Ron Goodman, EPDM product manager for Carlisle SynTec Systems, and BUILDINGS editor-in-chief Janelle Penny discuss EPDM’s resistance against weathering, heat damage and hail.

Don't miss the next episodes of this roofing series:

• #2: Roof Gardens

*This podcast was created in partnership with Carlisle SynTec Systems.

Valerie Dennis Craven speaks with Gabe Clark, principal for data centers with Corgan. They discuss the changing relationship between people and data centers, looking at edge data centers and those in an urban footprint.

Christoph Trappe usually likes it quiet in his work space. One day a meeting was interrupted by loud external noise and he thought: What a great starting point to learn about noise reductions in commercial buildings.

In this episode, Christoph chats with three professionals about the topic: Stan Gatland, John Hauenstein and Alex Morales.

Looking for tips on how to finance your building upgrades with rebates and tax incentives?

Janelle Penny speaks with Emily Naden, director of federal affairs, and John Bryant, vice president of advocacy and building codes, both from BOMA International, about where you should start as well as more of what you need to know.

Janelle Penny, editor-in-chief of BUILDINGS, talks about the National Roofing Contractors Association’s (NRCA) meeting with the White House chief of staff to discuss the shortage of qualified roofers. This was the first time the roofing industry has had a presence in the West Wing.

This topic spills over into every industry in facilities management due to a lack of school FM degrees, and other factors. Find out what Janelle has to say.

REHAU’s System 4500 windows and doors are an affordable way to let in daylight and fresh air without the potentially costly pitfalls posed by other window materials.

REHAU was recently honored as a Money-Saving Products Editors’ Choice winner for this product.

Janelle Penny speaks with Corrie Neukirchner about how it saves facility managers and building owners money in various ways.

Kenall Lighting’s Retrofit Kit with Indigo-Clean Technology is targeted toward any lighting products you already use that have florescent fixtures. The goal is to reduce facilities mangers’ energy costs, as well as their maintenance costs.

But this Editors’ Choice winner is also a life safety product that disinfects, even kills staph.

Sarah Kloepple speaks with Frank Gonzalez from Kenall Lighting about this winning product.

Clockworks automated buildings analytics brings automated fault detection and diagnostics to empower facilities teams to make their operations proactive, minimize energy use and improve occupant comfort.

Clockworks was awarded an Editors’ Choice distinction in the 2019 Money-Saving Products program.

Valerie Dennis Craven speaks with Alex Grace, vice president of KGS Buildings about this product.

Emma Hughes, project manager for LEED, speaks with Janelle Penny about how project teams pursuing LEED certification for buildings now have a new option: LEED Zero.

Learn more about this designation, including the requirements behind it and how it can benefit your building.

Done listening? Read more about this topic here: 4 Ways to Add Net Zero to Your LEED Certification

In this Weekly Roundup, senior writer Janelle Penny talks about March Madness brackets and high-stakes athletic facilities. Plus: a preview of our BOMA conference coverage next week.