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From Flash Floods to Heat Waves: Extreme Weather Strategies for CRE From record-breaking summer heat to sudden flash floods, extreme weather events are becoming a more common part of building operations. For commercial real estate professionals, this volatility raises the stakes: tenant [...]
Building Resilience into Your Property Now more than ever, global events outside of commercial real estate are affecting our properties. Between the impacts of climate change, ongoing economic uncertainties, and unforeseen disruptions like the recent pandemic [...]
Extreme Weather in CRE: Preparing for Tomorrow Property managers and operators must be ready for almost anything, both for tenants and staff. Putting strategic plans to safeguard properties and operations during extreme weather events can ensure your property and sta [...]
Advocacy Days: Executing Your Event Advocacy days are key events that allow individuals and shared interest groups to lobby legislators directly. Associations, non-profits, businesses, and concerned citizens use them to let their representatives hear their [...]
Tenant Safety and Security: Mitigating Workplace Violence and Security Threats Workplace interaction petered out during the COVID-19 pandemic. Many employees have been quarantined at home, away from the office. Many are returning, some willing and others not, from high-stress environment where the [...]
Identifying Signs of Ageing in Your Fire Suppression System An ageing fire suppression system can have a major impact on the safety and wellness of a property. In this video, Jeff Morrison with International Fire Protection, Inc. describes what property professionals need to look [...]
Snowed In: Handling Personnel during Winter Weather Events When snow and ice begin to fall, property managers do not want to be caught empty-handed. While preventative maintenance steps are essential to ensuring a smooth recovery after a winter weather events, people and staff a [...]
Creating a Business Continuity Plan In case of an emergency, it is always helpful to have a plan. Business continuity plans are the backbone of a building’s resiliency when faced with a natural disaster or disruptive event. Whether a hurricane or a power [...]
BOMA International Releases COVID-19 Emergency Evacuation Guidelines As building owners and managers begin to welcome tenants back to their properties, there are many adjustments that must be made. Procedures are being developed to encourage physical distancing and ensure the safety [...]
Preparing Buildings for Re-Entry Amid COVID-19 The Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) International has released a new guide to assist building owners, managers, and operators in preparing for increased building utilization. The guide, which was develope [...]
Lights Out: Tips for Creating Your Power Outage Plan Emergency preparation is about thinking ahead. We have all seen how that “that’ll probably never happen” attitude has worked out at one point or another. Bottom line is that preparation means lower costs when the i [...]
5 Cybersecurity Tips Every CRE Professionals Should Know A data breach or cyberattack can happen at any moment on any person’s device. Depending on the technological set-up of the company, an infection that makes its way onto one person’s account can find its way to [...]
Safety First: 4 Tips for Conducting an Active-Shooter Training Every emergency requires a plan. While the real estate industry is no stranger to communications plans for emergency protocol, active shooter trainings are not as common. In the next few years they may become as common a [...]
Who Ya Gonna Call? Quick Response for Emergency Scenarios When the phone rings and disaster strikes, what is supposed to happen? Beyond having a communications plan or a phone tree, emergency scenarios involve a level of teamwork and organization above the day-to-day re [...]