Enjoy an expanding catalogue of exclusive content that serves the needs of owners, asset managers, property managers and operations and maintenance professionals.
Ways to Save: Energy Management and Information Systems Identifying, calculating, and managing your energy consumption data is vital for building operations and improvement. Energy Management and Information Systems (EMIS) are an important set of tools to understand and impro [...]
Measuring Energy Performance: Exploring Today’s Technology and Techniques Energy performance and measurement play a large part in the maintenance and running of a building. They are used for certifications such as ENERGY STAR®, and LEED. They can help compare your building to others, and benc [...]
Five Cybersecurity Risks You and Your Property Management Team Should Avoid At this point, the importance of adhering to good cybersecurity practices is well known. What often goes unknown however, are all the current practices carried out on a daily basis that one needs to stop doing n [...]
Five Best Cybersecurity Practices for Properties and Companies Research from Gartner Inc. predicts that global cybersecurity spending will hit $170 billion by 2022. As this market grows, it makes sense to reason that the dangers in not observing proper cybersecurity habits are growi [...]
Five Cybersecurity Tips Every Professional 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 the wh [...]
5 Best Cybersecurity Practices for Individuals In today’s world, with most work taking place using a computer, it has become increasingly important that good cybersecurity habits are practiced in order to best protect oneself on the web. Through lots of research an [...]
Types of Hackers and Implications for CRE Remember when businesses kept lots of physical files? There were multiple file cabinets, sometimes basements full of important files. This became unnecessary with the emergence of the personal computer. We no longer need [...]
Increasing Cybersecurity and Reducing Threats Cybersecurity is, without a doubt, a major concern for building owners and operators today. The assets we manage leverage technology in ways vastly different from just a few years ago and the trend continues to grow. Cam [...]
Cybersecurity in a Work-from-Home Environment In the rush to set up home computers and offices away from offices, the concept of cybersecurity may not have had space to come up. Now that organizations are considering different re-entry plans and some individuals are [...]
The Rising Role of Technology in CRE I can remember grappling with the use of Symphony and Excel decades ago. IBM Lotus Symphony is long gone, and Excel still rules. I look back on that now and chuckle, because as difficult to learn as Excel once seemed, no [...]
Tech Tools for Productivity The dashboard in your vehicle tells you how much fuelhas been consumed, what drive gear the car is in, the speed of the vehicle, engine revolutions per minute, oil consumption, engine heat and the distance traveled among [...]
Tech Tools for Productivity You need dashboards that can help you arrange and prioritize the huge array of data you are faced with daily to remain productive. There is big data, but its useless if you can’t use it.
Let’s consider three importan [...]
Bleeding Edge Tech: Virtual Reality and Commercial Real Estate Augmented and virtual reality have been taking the tech world by storm offering new options to explore and see a space. Recently, there has been talk about how this new technology could impact the world of commercial rea [...]
On the Rise: Trends in Elevator Technology No matter the capacity of a building, moving people from place to place within a property is always an area of interest. Property and maintenance professionals are always considering new ways to increase safety and speed [...]