Author: Jessica Delahunt
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How to Streamline, Prioritize & Manage Work Order Requests for Max Efficiency
Do you feel like you struggle to get on top of the chaos of maintenance work orders? With so many critical building tasks to manage, unexpected work orders can make already busy days hectic. It’s easy to lose track of work orders in a busy property team. But tenants expect prompt resolutions to issues. If…
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Reduce Risk and Ensure Compliance With Property Management Insurance Software
Most CRE firms have an insurance compliance rating under 50 percent. If you aren’t compliant, you risk multi-million-dollar claims. But tracking compliance and certificates of insurance (COIs) is a lengthy, confusing process. How can you be fully compliant when it’s so complicated to manage? With property management/certificate of insurance software. Good software makes compliance easy…
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The Key to Standardized, Effective Building Inspections
Are your building inspections standardized? If you don’t have building maintenance software, they probably aren’t. And you’re likely missing costly problems. Without routine inspections, building issues slip through the cracks. Instead of catching a minor problem when it starts, it goes undetected until it’s an expensive fix or replacement. So having a standardized inspection and…
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Understand Your HVAC—Air Handling Units (AHU)
An air handling unit, or AHU, is HVAC equipment designed to regulate and circulate air throughout a space. Air handlers typically connect to a ductwork ventilation system. This system distributes conditioned air throughout a building and returns it back to the unit. The capacity of an air handler is commonly measured by the amount of air…
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Two Ways to Manage Floor Plans, Building Measurement, and Tenant Data
What’s the point of using space management software? Many commercial property managers and building owners still happily rely on outdated methods for managing their properties. Such methods are common when measuring buildings, or managing floor plans and tenant data. But the substantial cost of using manual methods and relying on external firms is wasted revenue and time. Today there are two…
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Top 6 Property Manager Goals
Looking for property manager goals for 2023? The below list outlines 2022 property manager goals, but we’ve got you covered for this year. Read more on the blog “Top 7 goals for property managers in 2023.” It’s hard to plan for the future when your portfolio is in survival mode. CRE property managers spent the…
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Understand Your HVAC—Packaged Rooftop Unit (RTU)
A packaged rooftop unit, or RTU, is a type of HVAC system that contains all the components needed to provide conditioned air in one compact unit. You typically use packaged rooftop units in light and large commercial applications. They are very popular with retail and industrial properties. A packaged rooftop unit is usually a large…
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Understand Your HVAC—The Refrigeration Cycle
A refrigeration cycle has four major components: the compressor, condenser, expansion device, and evaporator. Refrigerant remains piped between these four components in the refrigerant loop. The refrigeration cycle of an HVAC system is a critical component governed by the principles of thermodynamics. To understand how it works, first we need to grasp four key concepts.…
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Understand your HVAC: What are superheat and subcooling?
If you’re an engineer maintaining HVAC units, you need to understand some fundamental concepts. Two important terms to grasp are superheat and subcooling. These are critical to the refrigeration cycle, but can be tough concepts to visualize. So, what are superheat and subcooling? What are superheat and subcooling? At a high level, superheat occurs when…
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How to Improve Tenant Communication With Software
Good tenant communication is one of the keys to a well-run property. Yet despite the importance of good communication to tenant satisfaction, many property teams are slow to respond to tenants. And they frequently fail to convey important information to building occupants. Great communication takes time. But if you are consistently unresponsive and do a…