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What Are the Pitfalls of Outsourcing Your Facility Management?

The idea of having someone else responsible for your firm’s FM obligations can sound appealing — just bring in “experts” to handle […]

COBie, from Design to Operations

This white paper demonstrates that a COBie-based building information exchange can be successfully implemented in the private sector on a large scale […]

Lessons from Japan’s Latest Destructive Earthquake for Homeowners, Building Owners, and Facility Managers

The Kyushu earthquake of April 16, 2016 strongly affected wood-frame houses and other infrastructure that was built to world-class standards. Contrary to […]

First Steps to Successful Deployment of BIM for Health Care Operations

This white paper offers health care facility managers a starting point for determining how to apply the overwhelming amount of data captured […]

Data-driven Decision Making Using Enterprise GIS

This white paper describes how an enterprise geospatial information system (GIS) may be used to consolidate, visualize and convert data to useful […]

Asphalt Pavement Maintenance: $1 Spent is $10 Saved and Why Your Parking Lot Matters

Maintaining your parking lots and paved surfaces not only provides an exceptional return on investment, it also changes the way customers see […]

Using BIM to Transform Health Care Operations and Maintenance

This white paper presents health care facility managers with the potential benefits building information modeling (BIM) can provide in improving operation and […]

Diversity Management: A Diverse Leadership Yields Higher Earnings

Diversity is not an end in itself but a means to something greater — to improve competitiveness and the bottom line. In […]

8 Financial Reports Every Facility Manager Needs (and Every CFO Loves)

FMs are tasked with all kinds of responsibilities, from ensuring the look and feel of a company’s locations remain in top-notch order […]

Brand Uptime

Brand Uptime is a new way to think about your physical infrastructure and the impact it has, positively or negatively, on overall […]