Building & Facilities Operations

Do you know the Fiery Five? No, they don’t occupy an attractive, elite table in cafeteria, but checking them out will be much more rewarding. They represent our latest and greatest in educational resources to help you properly assess and optimize your Fire & Life Safety systems. Not lighting your fire? The importance of Fire & Life Safety improvements can be summed up in four words: property loss and occupant injury.

The Fiery 5 in Fire & Life Safety:

1. Video (1:38)

3 Must-Do Fire & Life Safety Activities

Peter Harrod of RJA outlines three important steps to take when assessing your Fire & Life safety system, features and compliance.

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2. Microsite

Assessing the Condition of Your Fire & Life Safety Systems

View the complete Conquering the Code webinar presentation, bonus videos, a sample Fire & Life Safety Assessment Report, resource links, and more Risk Management tools!

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3. Video (2:07)

Potential Costs of Not Following FLS Best Practices

Peter Harrod of RJA speaks to the risk involved when fire life safety due diligence isn’t achieved.

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4. Blog Post

10 Biggest Mistakes People Make with Fire & Life Safety Systems… And How to Avoid Them

Fire & Life Safety systems are in place because unplanned incidents and mistakes happen. Those mistakes shouldn’t be the way you use your system. See if you’re guilty of the 10 common mistakes building owners and managers make with their Fire & Life Safety systems.

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5. On-Demand Webinar (35:40):

Conquering the Code with Peter Harrod, Fire Protection Engineer at RJA

This complimentary webinar will share how to recognize deficiencies in your equipment, identify code violations, and plan the retroactive and forward thinking changes that will attract and retain tenants, mitigate risk and positively position your property for resale.

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Manage fire & life safety, visitor access, incidents, certificates of insurance and more with Building Engines Risk Management Tools.

While this time of year has most focused on reflections (both in the mirror and on the year gone by), Building Engines has its mind on Inspections. This evening, Building Engines proudly introduced The Inspections Module!

This brand new module will support:

Inspections of all types (Property, Environment, Tenant, etc.)

Mobile and iPad compatibility

Easy set-up and deployment

Highly flexible formatting and question types

Summary reporting with drill down capabilities

Save time and paper!

Based on client and market demand, this rich set of new features to our application will facilitate the creation and processing of paper-based property and tenant inspections. By digitizing this data and its associated processes, users will be able to build a wealth of information that can be easily consumed through our new inspections reporting dashboard. Take a look (or inspection):

Inspections Module Mobile Interface

Inspection Builder

Inspections Summary Reporting

We look forward to 2012 where we will continue to build new features and functionality into the application.

This season we are revving our engines for 2012, including a great plan to continue to build new features and functionality into the application. On December 22nd, we will introduce a new module! (hint: it rhymes with “schminpections”)

A theme you will see throughout the year, however, is technology-enabled best practices for building operations. For unlimited access to our operations best practices content, live and archived webinars, demonstrations, and more, you can join the Building Engines Inner Circle for free! We will ramp up our scouring of industry experts to gather more statistics, trends and best practices in property operations and workflow management than ever.

One major focus for the new year will be making data visible and actionable. You know all that data you’ve been collecting in your closet? Well, it’s time to make sense of it all! We will continue to evolve our analytics model and further develop the Building Health Quotient concept that we released in the latter half of 2011.

As we evolve the model, we will introduce functionalities including the ability to set your own benchmarks and targets, and then report against them. Over time, you will be able to use this data to create meaningul reports that reveal trends and reflect your progress in relation to set goals.

We are very excited for our plans in 2012, and we look forward to providing you with more visibility after the New Year.