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Earlier this year, the experts at FICO helped complete a major BMS upgrade of the HVAC System for Havre Public Schools in Havre, Montana. Providing quality ventilation, climate control, and building management systems (BMS) in classrooms is serious work that is vital to schools’ operations. Fresh air ensures students remain alert and ready to learn. Frequent … Read more

A building management system governing the distribution of electricity and controlling HVAC in your building saves money. There’s no question about that. However, facility managers can reduce those utility cost savings even more if they understand how their electrical utility determines the charges for the coming year for the electricity to power their building, especially … Read more

When most building professionals, facility managers, architects, and other professionals discuss building management systems (BMS), they immediately go to efficiencies in HVAC. Over the past decade, technological innovations have expanded this to include electrical distribution, energy efficiency, access control, security, and other areas.  However, not much has been said about the solutions for water management … Read more

Hospitals pose the ultimate challenge for building management systems (BMS) designers. They have multiple environments, many of which vary considerably in air quality requirements. There are operating rooms, treatment rooms, laboratories, sterile processing rooms, imaging rooms, supply rooms, and patient rooms. With COVID, there has been a heightened concern for infectious diseases, which poses more … Read more