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- Financial Management, Operations & Maintenance Research for Operating Buildings May 23, 2018 | By: Jacob Wilder The real estate market remains on an upward trajectory. Operations professionals may find themselves in a scenario where they are contemplating a staffing increase. Questions that commonly arise around such consideration [...]
- Operations & Maintenance Benchmarked: High Performance Through Data Tracking May 22, 2018 | By: Nicole Lloyd Building owners and managers are always looking for ways to improve both the performance and sustainability of their properties. Data tracking is a great tool to achieve these goals. By regularly monitoring certain aspec [...]
- Soft Skills/Interpersonal Transforming Property Managers into High Performers May 17, 2018 | By: BOMI Advanced knowledge to optimize current and future high-performance building operations positions managers to be sustainability leaders.Developing and managing high-performing real estate assets, while reducing the co [...]
- Operations & Maintenance What do Your Back of the House Areas Say About Your Maintenance Program? May 10, 2018 | By: Nicole Lloyd Most have few issues maintaining public areas, seeing as they’re the main spaces that customers or tenants see. But the state of the back of the house areas is just as important and can provide you with valuable feedba [...]
- Roofing Do You Have a Rooftop and Riser Management Program? April 30, 2018 | By: Nicole Lloyd Property owners and managers always want their buildings to be safe, efficient, and profitable. A management program for rooftop and riser spaces is indispensable in ensuring these areas stay organized and secure. And wi [...]
- Design & Construction, Environmental Sustainability Demolition Recovery April 9, 2018 | By: Nicole Lloyd Recovering Construction Waste During a Tenant Build-Out
Build-outs produce a lot of waste. That’s unavoidable. But that doesn’t mean that you have to be wasteful with your waste. Demolition Recovery, or reco [...]
- Design & Construction, Parking Lots & Decks So You Want an EV Ready Garage? What Engineers and Owners Should Consider Before Moving Forward on an EV Project March 30, 2018 | By: Nicole Lloyd As interest in green energy increases, more people have chosen to drive electric vehicles (EV). Georgia in particular reflects this trend -- the state ranks second in the United States for sales of EVs.1 Seeing as this m [...]
- Design & Construction, Parking Lots & Decks Engineering Solutions March 16, 2018 | By: Mark Gallman, SMA, SMT, LEED GA Most days, building engineers are busy completing building rounds, responding to tenant requests, keeping buildings in compliance, performing preventative maintenance tasks and making repairs which limit liability and ad [...]
- Risk Management Lightning Protection March 9, 2018 | By: Lance LaJoie The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) estimates that each year, U.S. Fire Departments respond to over 31,000 fires started by lightning strikes. In addition, Underwriters Laboratories (UL) notes that lightning [...]
- Healthy Buildings, Risk Management, Safety & Security The Four Principles of a Water Treatment Program March 2, 2018 | By: R. Trace Blackmore Water is considered the “life blood” of any facility for the simple reason that it transfers heat from one location to another. A complete water treatment program has one goal: to manage the efficiency of that heat t [...]
- Professional Development, Soft Skills/Interpersonal Engineering “Bandwidth” February 23, 2018 | By: Mark Gallman, SMA, SMT, LEED GA THE STATE OF BUILDING ENGINEERING
The news of an economic upswing and consumer confidence is great news. The questions to commercial real estate owners and operators are: Do you have a well maintained and perfor [...]
- Professional Development SMT and SMA Designations February 9, 2018 | By: Brian Manus The most common question I have heard over the years comes from building engineers asking, “What is the benefit of having my Systems Maintenance Administrator (SMA) and Systems Maintenance Technician (SMT) designations [...]