Category: Building Operations

Do you hate sending out RFPs? For a new cleaning service, parking lot repaving, or landscaping, you have to spend days or weeks sending RFPs. To get vendor bids, you need to write an RFP, communicate with sometimes nonresponsive vendors, and hope that you choose the right service provider. However, if you want the best…

Have you used a CRE tech tool that creates more problems than it solves? CRE tech is supposed to make managing your buildings easier. Instead, many tech tools add unnecessary work and frustration. But, CRE tech is becoming more widely adopted – making adopting technology a necessity to stay on top. Having the right CRE…

Building Engines Building Compliance Solutions and Emergency Action Plans ensure property management teams adhere to certain compliance standards, keeping their buildings and tenants safe as well as avoiding penalties and violations. Speak to one of our experts to learn how to comply with your city’s emergency action and fire safety policies. The services we offer…

If you work in commercial real estate (CRE), you know measuring the available area of a commercial building matters. But most people don’t know the difference between the various BOMA standards of the Building Owners and Managers Association. So Building Engines has compared the four most popular BOMA standards in this handy cheat sheet: Are…

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…

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…

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]If your New York City buildings are compliant with city regulations and have a set of Emergency Action Plans (EAP) in place, you’re on the right track. But having an approved plan isn’t enough. These plans must be kept up to date every time there is a significant change in your building.   Changes include:  But before we get into the…

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The last 25 years saw an explosion in Commercial Real Estate technology. While many of the solutions were great, some fell short and others were deployed in organizations not quite ready to evolve beyond Excel. The timing for a CRE tech revolution was off. But that’s changed as pressure has mounted to meet both bottom-line…

It’s another exciting day here at Building Engines – we’ve acquired CRE software firm, Synlio, a welcome addition to our modern building operations software toolkit. You can read the official announcement here. I’d like to be the first to officially welcome Synlio customers, network of providers, and team members to Building Engines – you’re now…

  Last week I had the honor to present the findings of our Tenant Experience Gap report at the BOMA China Conference in Shanghai. The opportunity to share our research on the other side of the planet underscores the fact that CRE companies around the world are grappling with the same competitive challenges that we face here in the United States.   In markets like Shanghai, just as in the United States, CRE pros are asking themselves…