Author: Scott Sidman
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8 Things You May Not Know about Building Engines (from our VentureFizz Feature)
The team at Building Engines is celebrating an exciting feature story in VentureFizz “Building Engines: A Property Management Software Success Story“ Even with a growing number of real estate tech companies in the Boston area, it’s clear that Building Engines has solidified itself as a major player in the industry. It has a platform built…
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Highlights from Building Engines’ Office Grand Opening
Building Engines’ has shipped off to Boston! (Read the announcement.) We wanted to bring together our large community of Boston partners, customers, and neighbors with a grand opening event. Thank you to all who came out, especially our panel “Making a Move to the City: Expectations of the Modern Tenant” featuring: – Ryan Romano, Cushman…
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98% Customer Satisfaction Rating Across 30M+ Square Feet: The Highwoods Story
Highwoods Properties, Building Engines Client Spotlight Series Transcription “My name is Catherine Bradshaw. I’m the manager of customers service at Highwoods Properties. Highwoods Properties’ corporate office is located in Raleigh, North Carolina. We manage over 250 properties all throughout the Southeast in just over 30 million square feet. Our focus is commercial real estate and…
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Q&A with 2018 Maintenance Hero, Julio Salazar
According to his peers, “Julio embodies everything a true Maintenance Hero should have; intelligence, a sense of humor, creativity, mechanical ability, wrapped up in superior customer service.” We had the opportunity to sit down with our winner to find out more. 1. Congratulations! Is there anyone you’d like to thank? First of all I…
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WeWork Acquires Conductor: What that Means for the CRE Industry
What does the WeWork acquisition of Conductor mean for the Commercial Real Estate industry? While WeWork’s ambitious goals should be no surprise to anyone paying attention, this move might seem a little puzzling to CRE. It shouldn’t be. WeWork’s most recent growth has been driven by the enterprise – organizations with 1000+ employees. They now say…
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Q&A with 2018 Management Hero, Kim Callicoat
Kim Callicoat, Assistant Property Manager at Highwoods Properties, recently took home the grand prize in Building Engines’ 2018 Property Hero contest, winning top place in the category of Management Hero. This award recognizes strong commercial asset management and practices that improve the customer experience, asset value, performance and overall efficiency. With multiple nominations from…
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Looking to the Future of Property Management with Building Engines’ New Chief Product Officer, Daniel Cozza
Building Engines is excited to welcome Daniel Cozza as Chief Product Officer. Read the full press release. Daniel is a leader in his own right, having driven product innovation at Vela Systems (where he worked alongside our CEO, Tim Curran) and led the real estate technology division at Autodesk. [Related: 5 Questions for Building Engines’…
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We Respond to 4 Key Thoughts on Digital Transformation from an Industry CIO
Art McCann is the Chief Information Officer at Highwoods Properties, a fully-integrated REIT specializing in the development, acquisition, leasing and management of quality office space, primarily in BBDs (best business districts) throughout the Southeast. He was recently featured in this interesting article in Realcomm, showcasing an important point of view from a leading professional…
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2 Important Trends for Commercial Real Estate Technology in 2018
My position at a technology firm that helps our clients manage over 1.5 billion square feet of property offers me a pretty unique point of view on an industry. I’m fortunate to have this perspective of the Commercial Real Estate (CRE) market, a sector that is quickly changing as the worlds of technology and…
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5 Questions for Building Engines’ New CEO, Tim Curran
It’s been quite a year for the Building Engines team following our latest infusion of capital investment in October 2016. This year, we introduced new mobile innovations with an enhanced mobile tenant services app, The Hive, unveiled the characteristics of high-performing CRE organizations in the industry’s first CRE operations benchmarking research, hosted our community of…