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Intelligence and Coordination for Facility Emergency Response Preparedness is everything in an emergency situation where swift action is necessary to resolve any situation. Whether it’s a medical crisis, natural disaster, system failure or an unfortunate security threat, having intelligence and ...
Read more When Every Second Counts It’s an emergency because you aren’t forewarned. The facilities manager must respond to every one of these emergencies. We aren’t talking about the CEO complaining about the temperature in the board room, that’s an emergency that might affect your annual performance ...
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February 27, 2024 You’re at the airport to catch a flight. You pay for parking, check in and check your bag, locate your gate in the terminal, and get an update on the plane’s ETA. At every step of the way, there’s a kiosk ready to provide the service or information you need. Advertisement ...
Read more The Best Third-Party Contractor Third party contractors play a vital role in facilities management. They are used for a variety of important tasks ranging from specialty equipment servicing to inventory auditing, compliance testing, routine servicing, and preventive maintenance. What are we looking ...
Read more There Are Maps and There Are Maps Digital maps for wayfinding, to track assets, to enable inventory audits, for equipment maintenance and services has been desired by virtually every facilities manager that manages large buildings. But the vast majority still use paper maps or static plans, assets ...
Read more Kiosks for Hospitals Hospitals are unfamiliar places for most of us as we don’t visit them out of choice. They tend to be large buildings with complicated layout and multiple buildings connected by a labyrinth of corridors, elevators, lobbies, and nurses’ stations. So, when we do visit a hospital, ...
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Improved Convention Navigation Convention and event management is a unique kind of facilities management responsibility. Usually, they are held in dedicated convention facilities like the Las Vegas Convention Center for example. Many large hotels also have convention/event ...
Read more Why Settle For A Mere Floorplan? Most facilities managers use paper maps, blueprints, and spreadsheets to do their job. They see tremendous value in digital maps, find assets quickly, to navigate, etc. and many have digitized their floorplan. But a digital floorplan is just the paper version on your ...
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Founded by MIT and Caltech engineers, InMapz is a proptech software platform thatcreates digital twins of commercial buildings through an automated process. InMapzintegrates floor plans, mechanical layouts, devices, sensors, and controls into one wholistic digital model of a building. Each element in ...
Read more Navigating Event & Convention Facilities Managing facilities that host events presents unique challenges and opportunities for the facilities/event manager.Many large hotels also have convention/event related facilities collocated whereby they can rent out convention halls, conference rooms, ...
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