Category: Announcements
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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…
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Justify Your TRANSFORM 2017 Attendance
Become “Measurably Better” at TRANSFORM 2017. The Building Engines 2017 Client Summit will feature best practices and benchmark data, industry leader panel discussions, full access to the Building Engines Client Success team in our Training Zone, a Product Launch, and much more! Use this letter below to outline some of the amazing sessions highlighted at…
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Music City Musings from BOMA 2017
The 2017 BOMA International Annual Conference & Expo was a great one for the Building Engines team, and there could hardly have been a better host city than Nashville. We were there for the duration, seeing the sights and catching up with clients. Here are a few high points: Notes on Nashville Conference Themes and…
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All in One Rarely Results in One for All
Recently, we’ve all been witness to a global conversation about macroeconomics, as countries decide how to do business around the world while protecting interests at home. Between the elections here in the US, to those happening overseas in Europe and related to Brexit, it’s a fascinating time of change and reflection. For those of us…
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When Launching Your Vision, Aim High but Keep Your Feet on the Ground
On September 12, 1962, in Houston Texas, in front of 35,000 people, many of whom were scientists and politicians, John F. Kennedy charged a nation when he said, “We choose to go to the moon.” That speech, the “Moon Speech,” is a great illustration of executive leadership, as it embodies an important planning principle called…
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The “Why” Behind Real Estate Conferences (Plus 5 Takeaways from the IREM Asset & Property Management Symposium)
I was asked an interesting question last week at the IREM Asset & Property Management Symposium in New York. “Why would groups of people, many of whom directly compete with each other, get together to share ideas, best practices, and concepts that might erode some competitive advantage?” The individual behind this query was a new…
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Top 5 Trends Affecting Commercial Real Estate in 2017 (Takeaways from CRE.Tech)
It’s not that I expect to learn something new at every real estate or technology conference I attend, but the conversations that took place at CRE.Tech’s event on “Next Gen Property Management” in New York last month helped to shine a light on what I believe are several key trends affecting in the Commercial Real…
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We Confess Our Holiday Traditions and Say Goodbye to 2016
2016 was a big year here at Building Engines. We might even say huge. (Yuge) We released several great new features and improvements to our commercial property management software platform (Dispatch, QR Code equipment lookup in BE-Mobile, introduction of the TenHub tenant mobile app), doubled-down on information security by successfully completing a SOC II audit,…
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The Outstanding 2016 Property Hero Award Winners, Unmasked!
It’s a wrap! With over 2,708 votes cast, 32 finalists, and 212 nominations in the “Maintenance” and “Management” categories, we now have our two 2016 Property Hero Award winners. We’d like to take a moment to thank our co-sponsors: Genea, The News Funnel, ITS, and Realpage for their contributions to this year’s awards. Before we…
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Unmasking the Amazing 2016 Property Hero Award Finalists
It’s usually considered taboo to unmask a hero in comic books and comic book movies, but this is the real deal. The 2016 Property Hero Awards, where amazing commercial property management professionals in both maintenance and management can be publicly recognized, is coming to a close. But don’t worry – it isn’t too late to…