The Hidden Costs of Non-Compliance: Fire Safety and Your Bottom Line
Fires cost businesses billions of dollars annually, not just in direct damage, but also in lost revenue, legal fees, food security, and reputational harm. Consider the devastating fire that ripped through a food processing plant in Moses Lake, Washington in 2023. The blaze, which took dozens of firefighters to battle, not only destroyed the facility […]
Operational Assessments Are the Most Overlooked Profit Machine in Your Facility
Picture this: You’re the facility manager for a thriving company. Every day feels like you’re running a complex machine with a thousand moving parts—HVAC systems, security protocols, maintenance schedules, compliance reports. You keep everything running, fires get put out, and at the end of each day, you can say “mission accomplished.” But here’s the million-dollar […]
7 Practical Steps for Facility Managers to Cut Through the Sustainability Noise
Intro: Too Much Noise, Too Little Clarity Terms like ESG, Net Zero, Circular Economy, Sustainability, BIM, IWMS, CMMS, IoT, Sensors, IEQ, and Data are everywhere. Yet for many facility managers (FMs), this flood of buzzwords brings confusion rather than clarity. Budgets are tight. Staff resources are limited. Meanwhile, executives are demanding measurable progress toward sustainability […]
Washington’s Clean Buildings Performance Standard: A Compliance Roadmap
Washington’s Clean Buildings Performance Standard sets a clear expectation: commercial buildings must cut energy use—and show the results. For property owners, that means tracking current consumption, planning targeted improvements, and funding strategic capital expenditure projects—like HVAC and controls upgrades, better insulation, and high-efficiency lighting—that actually reduce demand. The payoff is straightforward: lower utility bills, smoother […]
Facility Management (FM) is Changing
Facility Management: As It Used To Be Picture this: once upon a time in a building not so far away, a custodian worked out of a cramped office in the basement—and I mean a real basement, the kind where you’d hit your head on the low-hanging pipes if you weren’t careful. The air was thick […]
The Ultimate Guide to Creating a Winning Facility Management Plan + Free Template
Download Your Free Facility Management Plan Template Take the guesswork out of facility planning. Use our ready-to-edit .docx template to quickly build a structured, professional facility management plan tailored to your organization. Download Facility Plan Template A strategic approach to facilities management focuses on optimizing resource utilization and maximizing asset value. This article will explore […]
LEARN FROM THE PAST, ACTION THE PRESENT, PREDICT THE FUTURE
Maintenance in a Facility has almost become as critical as on a jetliner. People’s schedules, lives, business meetings, are being affected. Now granted, failure to repair the closer on the front door of your building won’t shut the building down like it could a jetliner. But it still affects our customers, they might not miss […]
Regulatory Compliance, HELP!
Navigating the Complexities of Business Compliance and Asset Management Understanding and adhering to legal and regulatory requirements is a critical yet often underestimated aspect of business ownership. Ignorance is not bliss, and ultimately, the responsibility for compliance rests firmly with you, the business owner. Recent inspections for asset inventory and compliance have revealed alarming oversights […]
Preventative Maintenance, Obsolete?
Preventative Maintenance is now considered a basic form of maintenance, it is being bypassed with Predictive and Prescriptive Maintenance since they are more efficient, cost effective. That being said, Preventative can still be critical. Sometimes we think of Preventative as maintaining Capital Assets to ‘prevent’ breakdowns. That is a piece of the pie, but often […]
Focus: Energy Consumption
We’re Missing Opportunities in Energy Management Energy consumption is getting a lot of attention these days, and for good reason. Utility bills keep climbing, sustainability mandates keep tightening, and everyone from the C-suite to the front desk wants to know what we’re doing about it. So we’re doing what we’re supposed to do—adjusting setpoints, installing […]
