Author: Jessica Delahunt
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2020 Preventive Maintenance Software Comparison: Building Engines vs. the Field
Are you looking for preventive maintenance software – but don’t know which one’s right for you? Preventive maintenance software can help you extend the lifetime of building assets by scheduling routine maintenance, keeping tabs on your equipment, and providing service history (to name a few). So, you can fix problems before they turn into costly…
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RFPs Made Simple in Three Easy Steps
RFPs are one of the most loathed processes in commercial real estate. Understandably so. It’s typically a manual, time-intensive process to get an RFP out the door to vendors, receive their bids, evaluate vendors, and choose the right one. In fact, the RFP process is so time-consuming it typically takes anywhere from 6-14 hours per property manager…
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4 Ways SL Green Improved Tenant Satisfaction with Building Engines’ Operations Platform
With over 23 million square feet of class A office space in Manhattan, SL Green Realty Corp is NYC’s largest owner of office real estate. The company is well known for the experience they provide to their tenants and their top-notch, seamless building operations. The property management team at SL Green works incredibly hard to…
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6 Questions to Ask Yourself This CRE Budgeting Season
If I were to guess, budgeting for your next fiscal year is the last thing you want to do right now. And if you’re anything like me, you may be procrastinating a bit because you know the headaches and frustrations that are lingering. After all, budgeting is fraught with what seems like endless paperwork and…
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Webinar Recap: Tenant Billback with Genea
By Emily Hossellman, VP of Marketing at Genea This is a guest post by Building Engines’ Partner, Genea. As part of the Partnership Program, Building Engines co-hosted a webinar with Genea on tenant billback. You can find the recording of the webinar here. To learn more about why Building Engines is partnering with Genea, visit…
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Guest Blog: 5 Benefits CRE Tenants See from Building Efficiency Initiatives
This is a guest blog post from our partner Aquicore. Aquicore’s portfolio-grade solution allows asset managers and property teams alike to improve utility performance, manage utility bills, and budgets, and streamline tenant utility billing – all from one central platform. Learn more about Aquicore. Building efficiency initiatives are most commonly initiated by building owners and…
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3 Steps to a Data-Driven Tenant Satisfaction Strategy
Over time, massive amounts of data are created from the hundreds of activities that take place in a commercial real estate (CRE) property every day. Are you tracking, measuring, and learning from this data to make better, more informed decisions for your tenants? Because of the recent rise of customer expectations, every CRE firm puts…
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Building Buzz: 05
[vc_cta h2=”Trivia Corner”] What building is so tall that you can watch the sunset from its base, take the elevator to the top, and watch the sunset all over again[vc_column_text] [/vc_cta][vc_column_text] What We’re Reading This Week The Need for Tech Innovation – Commercial Observer “Investment in real estate technology increased 607 percent in Q1 2019…
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7 Quick Tips for Busy CRE Professionals to Keep Tenants Happy, and Make them Stay
Replacing a tenant costs 3x more than retaining an existing one. In commercial real estate (CRE), tenants, and the revenue they generate, are the lifeblood of the business. That’s why in our State of CRE Operations Report we asked over 900 CRE professionals what they do to make their tenants happy. Bottom line: We found that when it comes…