Category: Building Operations
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Integration and Operations Management
Hugh Morgan recently wrote an intriguing blog post on the lack of integration Google utilizes in its applications. While each SaaS product they roll out is brilliant and useful, they do not fit well together and are difficult to combine and fully take advantage of. In the same manner, an operations management system needs to…
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The Power of Ownership
Ownership is what makes people care about outcomes. If you own your car, you care whether or not it gets scratched, remains clean inside, retains its value, etc. If you own your house, you care about its long term condition, the impact changes on your street will alter its general appearance, and how town policies…
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A Healthy Building for the New Year
If tenants are the heart of a building, than the structure and equipment in that building is its lifeblood. Without properly functioning systems, costs will rise, tenants will become dissatisfied and the property will degrade. Over time it will lose value and become less of a viable entity. Much like your body needs proper care,…
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Supercharge Your Preventive Maintenance!
Date/Time: Tuesday, December 14th at 12:00pm EST • Presenter: Tony Shaker Supercharge your Preventive Maintenance Program! Register Now! Join us as Tony Shaker, founder & CEO of ENfinity Partners and 20-year operations & maintenance veteran, breaks down the fundamental best practices of a Preventive Maintenance Program… learn more. During the Webinar You Will Learn:
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Home Sales and Housing Starts – the Kevin Bacon of Real Estate Value
The idea that everyone is on average approximately six steps away from any other person on earth, is known as six degrees of separation – such that a chain of “friend of a friends” will connect any two people in the world within six steps or fewer. In Hollywood, this small world phenomenon is embodied…
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Real Estate Recovery Starts at the Head
Your real estate management business can learn a lot from a cat. We all know about a cat’s innate ability to always…. always land on its feet, but do we know how a cat does it? Here’s how: It starts at the head. Utilizing its inner ear, a cat first orients itself to the ground. …
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Quarter to Quarter, Clicks are Driving Bricks & Mortar
I just read that the U.S. office market recovery has begun: “…that the third quarter the U.S. office market posted positive net absorption for the second consecutive quarter — 5 million square feet absorbed in the second quarter and 7 million square feet in third quarter.” [U.S. Office Market Enters Early Recovery as Absorption, Demand…
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Put all of your eggs in one basket and watch that basket
The real estate optimist, like Sasquatch and the honest politician, may be no more than myth. Real estate runs on jobs and jobs are a reflection of the economy. With the U.S. economy growing at an annualized rate just 1.7 percent in the second quarter, we appear to be entering another sustained slowdown, or so…
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Cautious Optimism & an Emphasis on Operations
Building Engines sponsored the Bisnow Boston State of the Market event on Thursday, September 30 at the Marriott Copley Hotel. The outstanding event, put on by Bisnow Media, attracted over 1000 of the region’s real estate professionals and included two panels of the most successful and accomplished leaders of the local market. The experts were…
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Risk: A Game of Global Domination
Risk is defined as the probability or threat of a damage, injury, liability, loss, or other negative occurrence, caused by external or internal vulnerabilities, and which may be neutralized through pre-mediated action. In short, bad things can happen due to the decisions that you make or don’t make. We all deal with risk in our…