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A Facility Manager’s Guide to Energy Management
Understanding the basic metrics for your facility is the foundation for developing nearly every program at your building, and energy metrics are among the most important of those. Tracking, recording, and understanding your building’s monthly energy usage, including everything from electricity consumption to the total MBTU’s used per room, becomes essential when you are putting..
Read more10 Ways for Facility Managers to Cut Building Maintenance...
Being a Facilities Manager requires maintaining a delicate balance between staying on budget and keeping the building safe, maintained, and up to code. Most Facility Managers are under pressure to stay within budget or much lower; but no matter how tight the maintenance budget may be, they are responsible for completing a host of essential..
Read more8 Ways Electricians Can Ensure More Proactive Building Ma...
When it comes to maintenance, there is a big difference between proactive and reactive building maintenance. That difference can also mean thousands of dollars saved or thousands of dollars lost. One of the best ways to stay on budget and avoid unfortunate (and costly) surprises is to regularly practice proactive building maintenance. In fact, NFPA..
Read more6 Ways for Electricians, Plumbers, HVAC and other Technic...
Delivering your close-out documents as digital as-builts can strengthen your customer relationships and maintain your integrity throughout the project. Clear, concise, and easy-to-read as-builts are essential for the customer (who will be the one using the finished product) because they provide a complete account of what was actually built and how it was designed. Delivering..
Read more5 Reasons Why it’s Important for Field Technicians to Qui...
Field technicians’ line of work requires a lot of maintenance, repairs, and fieldwork that can become overwhelming to comb through, especially if an emergency arises. Being able to quickly assess the problem, locate it, and inform the people who will be affected are all enormous benefits of digitally mapping your building’s infrastructure. When a technician..
Read more5 Reasons for Facilities Managers to Make the Move from P...
As-builts are an essential part of managing your electrical infrastructure and a key part of any project implementation. Because they provide documentation of every change made, all working drawings created throughout the construction process, and plans for implementing the final product, they are, quite literally, the blueprints of all your hard work. From daily construction..
Read more5 Big Recent Innovations in Facilities Management
Over the past several years, there have been some incredible technological advancements in facilities management. Overall, technology has made the industry more efficient, less error-prone, and more cost-effective; and because of that, it’s more important than ever to keep an eye on the technologies that will make the biggest impact in facility management operations.
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