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Healthcare Facilities in 2026: Five Pressures That Belong in the Boardroom

The financial case for facilities investment has always been hard to make. It competes with clinical priorities, capital is tight, and the work is largely invisible until something breaks. But the math is shifting.

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Closing the Deferred Maintenance Data Gap

Most experienced facilities leaders know the feeling — a capital budget that never quite stretches far enough, and a backlog that seems to grow faster than the funding available to close it. That feeling has a price tag, and it compounds year over year.

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manufacturing
Manufacturing Plant Performance: Fixing Facility Data Blind Spots

How do you defend rising manufacturing facilities spending when forty budgets can’t be ranked, compared, or tied to clear results?

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healthcare
Healthcare Insights: Data-backed, Defensible Capital Budgets

Which capital projects reduce total enterprise cost across a healthcare system when every request is detailed, ranked, and separately justified?

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Federal Energy Efficiency Incentives Are Changing in 2026. What Should Facility Leaders Decide Now?

In 2026, federal energy incentives are shifting fast—tightening timelines, changing rules, and phasing out key programs. Facility leaders must act quickly, aligning projects, timing, and strategy to capture remaining value before opportunities disappear.

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What Mantis Sees Ahead in 2026: Preparing Buildings & Energy Strategies for a Volatile Year

Spring arrives with a familiar shift in mindset. Temperatures start climbing, cooling systems wake up, and planning cycles pick up momentum. For facility and energy leaders, it's also a natural moment to step back and ask: are we prepared for what the res

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Putting It All Together: A Framework for High-ROI Facility Asset Management

By this point in the series, you've worked through the mechanics of diagnosing risk, assessing conditions, building capital project priorities, and executing them across HVAC, roofing, and pavement. Now comes the part that ties it together: building a fac

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From Insight to Implementation: Designing a Pavement Program That Pays Off

Organizations don’t struggle with pavement because they don’t care. They struggle because the structure to manage it proactively, condition data, capital forecasting, and sequenced procurement, hasn’t been put in place. A call comes in. A site lead flags

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