Lodging Engineer
CONTENTS
1 1ST PERSON: HARRY HOBBS – SAN FRANCISCO INTERCONTINENTAL HOTEL Harry Hobbs discusses what
they are doing at his San Francisco InterContinental Hotel to become more energy efficient. Harry has many tools at
his disposal, including LEED and Energy Star to assist him in making all the right sustainable decisions.
1 MANAGING HOSPITALITY MRO INVENTORY John Sladek of Grainger Industrial Supply discusses managing the
maintenance, repair and operating inventory for an automated hotel stock room.
6 BE AWARE OF SUSPICIOUS BEHAVIOR Checklist of guest behavior that could be cause for alarm. Based on
information distributed to Hotels in NYC by the NYPD Intelligence Division.
10 YOU SHOULD KNOW, SO WHAT’S YOUR ExCUSE? Manny Higazi offers his unique insight to managing his ho-
tel’s maintenance shop.
12 ROOM MAINTENANCE PROGRAM (RMP) CART August Craanen provides practical tips on how to select a hotel
room maintenance cart. Lodging Engineer members interested in purchasing this cart can click on the photo which is
directly linked to Grainger’s inventory website.
13 PROPER MOPPING: YOUR BEST DEFENSE AGAINST SLIPS & FALLS Alan Mayr discusses the proper tech-
niques for mopping your hotel’s floors and how to benchmark their Static Coefficient of Friction (SCF) performance.
17 WHEN TALENT COMES KNOCKING Tim Arwood discusses opportunities in today’s economy for finding talented
staff and what it takes to keep them.
18 UPCOMING EVENTS NAHLE provides a calendar of noteworthy events of interest to fellow hotel engineers.
19 GREEN TIPS FOR ROOM FILTER MAINTENANCE Dennis Trost, a new member of NAHLE, talks about the impor-
tance of scheduled maintenance and filter replacement for your HVAC systems. KAPA Technologies has developed an
innovative custom filter that adapts to most filters making expensive customized filters obsolete.
20 DEATH, TAxES & THEM OSHA CHANGES ARE A COMIN’ – Art Attaway talks candidly about OSHA’s recent pro-
posed rulemaking for hazardous chemicals and its impact on the hotel industry.
22 MEMBER BENEFITS
23 SPECIAL ADVERTISERS SECTION
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