There are times to plant a flag in the calendar and say, “From this day forward things were different.” February 11, 2025, was such a day. That is when the Linux Foundation announced the acquisition of the Coalition for Smarter Buildings (C4SB) so it could be the entry into solving building industry operating system issues was such a date. Rick Justis, C4SB Executive Director, joins us this week to discuss the implications of the acquisition for not only facility asset management, but a...

Nicholas Johnson, Kahua's Chief Evangelist

Tacoma Zach is Co-Founder and CEO at MentorAPM. Jennifer Zach is Chief Marketing Officer for the technology-driven MentorAPM and has been an invaluable member of the ALN Board of Directors. As part of MentorAPM’s continual advancement of the Asset Management industry, the company has recently released Asset Lens an AI assisted asset assessment tool that allows anyone to take pictures of asset inventories and assets tags to quickly fill out an asset register and gain initial assessments....

The ALN and the Institute of Asset Management USA Chapter are happy to co-publish the "State Asset Management Initiatives for Water Systems". The paper provides a  State-by-State snapshot view of water asset management initiatives in the U.S. and a short case study of Palm Beach County Florida ISO 55001 certified water and wastewater system - the first to achieve this status in the U.S. Speakers: - Pollop Phonpornwithoon, Asst. Department Director Operations, Maintenance, Technology...