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Understanding Building Performance From the Occupant’s Perspective Commercial buildings are often evaluated through measurable operating indicators, including energy consumption, maintenance costs, equipment reliability and space utilization. These metrics help property managers underst [...] - Safety & Security
Communications During Critical Incidents Think about the last time you needed to speak to a team member. Did you use your phone, a messaging app, or a radio? Were you asking them to perform a task or were you just calling for their location? If you used y [...] - Environmental Sustainability, Tenant Experience
Behind the Curtain: Increased Tenant Transparency While energy performance has been the focus for most building owners, property managers, and building engineers for many years, there is now more of a push to see this reported. In recent years, Environmental, Social, an [...] - Environmental Sustainability
What to Know About the EPA’s New Refrigerant Leak Rules For commercial building owners and operators, refrigerant management is becoming an increasingly important part of HVAC compliance. Effective January 1, 2026, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Emissions Reduct [...] -
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Maintaining Electrical Systems in Aging Industrial Buildings Infrared thermography provides a way to inspect energized electrical equipment for abnormal temperature patterns. A technician using an infrared camera can examine connections and components without opening the equipment [...] - Soft Skills/Interpersonal, Workforce Development
The Skills We Used to Learn Along the Way Why developing soft skills requires a new approach for Gen Z For generations, a first job was a rite of passage. Whether bagging groceries, waiting tables, working retail, or lifeguarding at the local pool, you [...] - Environmental Sustainability, Financial Management
Using ENERGY STAR for Capital Planning Capital planning often requires property teams to make decisions about building systems long before those systems reach the end of their useful lives. Energy performance data can help inform those decisions by showing wh [...] - Environmental Sustainability, Financial Management
A Reinvestment Approach to Budgeting As we continue towards the end of another budget season, many of us are moving through a marathon of long hours to create our budgets. We are working to create a budget that meets the needs of the building and the financ [...] - Tenant Experience
Building Safer Communities: How Tenant Town Halls Strengthen Emergency Preparedness There are two kinds of property managers: those who hear from their tenants only when something goes wrong, and those who have built relationships long before an emergency ever occurs. The difference often comes down to [...] - Environmental Sustainability
How to Investigate Changes to Your ENERGY STAR Score A major shift in a building’s ENERGY STAR score can quickly catch a property team’s attention. When the score changes by several points between reporting periods, the team may wonder whether equipment, operations, oc [...] - Environmental Sustainability
Sustainability in Facility Management: Challenges and Solutions Facility management is crucial in ensuring the effective and efficient operation of buildings and properties throughout the county. Environmental responsibility is seeing greater emphasis than ever before, and facilities [...] - Financial Management
SNDAs: Insights from the Lender Side When negotiating a lease, it is easy to skim the subordination clause and assume the boilerplate language is sufficient. A future lender, however, is likely to scrutinize that provision during loan due diligence. Landlor [...] - Environmental Sustainability, Operations & Maintenance
Can Your Building Handle Its Next Energy Load? The electrical demands on commercial buildings are changing. Electric vehicle charging, heat pumps, electric water heating, building controls, battery storage, and other technologies are adding loads to buildings that we [...] - Environmental Sustainability, Tenant Experience
Ways to Save: ENERGY STAR Tenant Space The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) began development of the ENERGY STAR Tenant Space program in 2018 and it was officially launched in 2020. It was created as a new way to assess and recognize environmentally [...] - Preparedness, Safety & Security
Risky Business The Essential Components of Effective Property Management: Training, Emergency Preparedness, Vendor Relationships, First Aid, and Communication
Managing a commercial office building involves much more than excellent exp [...] - Environmental Sustainability
ENERGY STAR at a Turning Point For more than 30 years, ENERGY STAR has provided a common standard for evaluating and improving energy efficiency across the U.S. commercial building sector. In commercial real estate, its best-known tool is ENERGY STAR [...] - Environmental Sustainability, Technology
EV Chargers in CRE: Charger Types and Support “Every couple of years, we’ve heard that this will be the year for electric vehicles and chargers to take off,” said Glenn Kurtz, Senior Vice President of Strategic Initiatives with Legacy Parking. “I think we ar [...] - Risk Management
The Downstream Effects of Disaster Recovery Looking Beyond the Immediate Emergency to Protect Commercial Real Estate
When disaster strikes a commercial property, the first priority is always life safety. Once occupants are safe, attention quickly shifts to stop [...] - Risk Management, Safety & Security
The Basics of Threat Assessments for Multi‑Tenant Office Buildings A Practical Guide for Property Management Representatives
Commercial real estate multi-tenant office buildings face a wide range of potential threats—from everyday criminal activity like theft and vandalism to more se [...] - Risk Management, Safety & Security
The Core Elements of Active Threat Training: How Property Teams Should Prepare Most property teams know they should be preparing for an active threat, but they do not know where to start. As a result, they resort to training methods they are comfortable with, run a tabletop exercise with building l [...]
