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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 [...]
Breaking Down Building System Threats and Cybersecurity for CRE: Scans and Printers Building cybersecurity is a major issue affecting thousands of commercial properties. Understanding the importance of cybersecurity is integral to preparing for cyber-attacks, and these examples give an idea of the conse [...]
Breaking Down Building System Threats and Cybersecurity for CRE: Connectivity Lost to Over 100 Buildings Building cybersecurity is a major issue affecting thousands of commercial properties. Understanding the importance of cybersecurity is integral to preparing for cyber-attacks, and these examples give an idea of the conse [...]
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 [...]
Engineer Exposure to Litigation Building engineers are taking on more roles than ever before. Not only do they manage the technical day-to-day of a building, but they also act as the “face” for many tenants. Building engineers must utilize customer [...]
COVID-19 Resources for CRE Professionals The spread of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) across the globe has captured the attention of governments, health organizations, and every-day citizens. To assist commercial real estate professionals in their preparation and r [...]
Climate change and how it might affect CRE in the future While often a political hot-button, climate change has the potential for massive effects on the commercial real estate industry. The past couple of years have seen rising sea levels, larger storms and and increased empha [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
On the Lookout: Five Risks for O+M Professionals to Watch at a Property Operations and maintenance (O+M) professionals oversee many critical components of a property. Their work ensures that a building runs well, and workers and tenants are safe. Because of this, O+M professionals should alw [...]
Prepared to Be Prepared By Alex Bruce, Highwoods PropertiesAre you prepared to deal with an emergency situation at your building? Are you familiar with the facility’s emergency plan? How would you react, and how would you deal with the sa [...]