Category: HVAC
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Understand your HVAC: What are superheat and subcooling?
If you’re an engineer maintaining HVAC units, you need to understand some fundamental concepts. Two important terms to grasp are superheat and subcooling. These are critical to the refrigeration cycle, but can be tough concepts to visualize. So, what are superheat and subcooling? What are superheat and subcooling? At a high level, superheat occurs when…
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Coaxing Employees Back to a Post-COVID Office
They’re baaaaaaaack! No, not the ghouls of the Freely family in Poltergeist. It’s your tenants, and they’ve changed. With COVID-19 restrictions easing, it’s time to prepare your building for the return of a new class of tenant occupant. This one is more demanding of a COVID-free office environment, of uncrowded common spaces, and constant communication…
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Commercial Real Estate Due Diligence: 4 Focus Areas for Buyers
In a highly competitive real estate market, acquisitions of commercial, retail, and industrial buildings complete in days. Unfortunately, this doesn’t leave much time for commercial real estate due diligence. Why does this matter? The due diligence process is a buyer’s final chance to ascertain risks that might jeopardize an asset’s revenue potential before a deal…
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Mitigate COVID-19 Transmission with Your HVAC System
Tenants are slowly returning to office buildings and commercial leasing deals are gaining momentum. But commercial real estate (CRE) owners and operators aren’t out of the woods yet. Many tenants are still rightly concerned about COVID-19 transmission. If left unattended, these doubts could escalate into tenant turnover. In CRE’s new normal, a well-managed HVAC system…
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4 Tips to Better Triple Net Compliance
How do you keep your tenants compliant with HVAC lease obligations? If tenants send you service contracts as proof of service, you’ve made a common (and potentially expensive) mistake. Requiring a tenant to enter into a service agreement with an HVAC vendor (and even seeing the contract) doesn’t mean that the maintenance is actually getting done. In some…
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Top 5 Myths About HVAC Services for CRE
Believing common HVAC myths can be damaging to your system’s performance and longevity. Without the right maintenance, your HVAC system will break down sooner than it should – costing you more. And in many cases, HVAC operating costs creep up due to time-consuming management processes and lack of visibility into maintenance records. So, to keep…
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Why Is Year-Round HVAC Management Important?
Do you manage your HVAC year-round? Or, is your HVAC management more sporadic – such as when problems arise? Your HVAC is one of the most important systems in your building. If it breaks, your tenants will be uncomfortably hot or cold (depending on the season). Having to deal with an uncomfortable temperature can make…
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Ravti Joins the Building Engines Family
We have been busy at Building Engines. We’ve been helping our customers increase their revenue, deliver the best occupant experience and reduce their operating costs through better building operations. We’ve been innovating on the Prism building operations software platform, even since its launch just a few months ago. And we’ve been continuing to keep an…
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Is Your After Hours HVAC Program Costing You?
By: Emily Hossellman, VP Marketing, Genea As a property team, your top priority is your tenants. You’re constantly looking to streamline your processes to provide the best customer service possible. Technology provides a simple way to automate time-intensive aspects of your responsibilities. One of the processes many office buildings today are automating is managing after-hours HVAC…
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Top 3 Tips to Keeping Cool in the Summer Heat
This summer is set to be more extreme than prior years, with more frequent above-90-degree days on the East Coast while the drought in the West continues to expand.