The FM product making happier tenants and owners: Reliability
Reliability is the most important deliverable for your facilities maintenance team. It’s your product: the resulting state of your building after everyone has done their jobs right. Once you start thinking about reliability as your service or product, you’ll unlock ways to improve it, making you more valuable to your…
Third Party Property Managers and Property Owners: How To Keep This Relationship Stress Free
Simple record keeping helps everyone stay on the same page Third party property management can relieve building owners of the liability and stress of an in-house staff. However, the responsibility of servicing and maintaining property owned by someone else can be problematic. What happens when things go wrong and unanticipated problems…
Moving On Up – Getting Your Equipment Above The Flood Line
Hurricane Sandy had many far reaching repercussions, especially for Manhattan’s buildings and the people who maintain them. The storm served as a wake up call to the danger catastrophic flooding poses to the equipment we depend on. This has caused a shift in the way equipment is being positioned in…
What to Look For in Your Next Facility Engineer
A facility engineer’s job description changes from one property or management company to the next. One may have several ongoing construction projects and it’s the engineer’s responsibility to draft plans and secure bids from suppliers. Another could utilize a team of engineers tasked with the preservation of several historic buildings. Some…
