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One Good Turn Deserves Another:
Find Shut-offs Fast
As if you don’t already have enough on your plate, knowing the locations of your facility’s gas, water main, water isolation valves and med gas valve is more difficult than it sounds. Renovations, the number of years you’ve been on the job and the vastness of some campuses all contribute to the difficulty of finding these devices – coupled with the unavailability of location documentation. In facility emergencies, often times, the first thing that needs to be addressed are shut-offs....
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After a year-long lockdown, Spring is here.
Time to explore different opportunities.
Whether you are looking for an O&M manual for the air handler or the 1986 remodel plans for the nursing station or even the emergency evacuation plan we seem to be doing the same thing -- walking back to the document storage room. We know the information is there, somewhere....
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Retirement Redux for Facility Managers
Facilities knowledge is as much technical as it is physical or industrial. Requirements for building engineers have never been greater as equipment grows increasingly more sophisticated, but the clock is sped up with the creeping up of retirement....
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ARC Facilities Announces New Patents for optimizing
data transfers and synchronization of information
Facilities professionals work in multiple buildings, across large campuses, school districts, towns and geographical regions. Lack of immediate access to critical building information is often cited as the cause for maintenance delays and repairs, which compromise safety....
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Access to Building Information in the
Built Space
Fast access to building information is a critical component of facilities management that has never been addressed....
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Technology Team Gets an "A" for
Simplifying School Safety Reports
The safety of our schools is a subject the technology team at ARC Facilities has mastered from a deep inside-the-facility perspective....
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Short-Staffing Due to COVID
Demands Resourcefulness
Use all 5 Senses, Share Building Information COVID is having a profound impact on building knowledge among facilities teams, many of which are still onsite every day, but may be short-staffed....
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A glimpse into 2021 and beyond from
ARC Facilities CEO Suri Suriyakumar
What can we do minimize stress and maximize time management for our nation’s facilities teams? The key is to organize all the building information in appropriate categories, extract intelligence from these documents and deliver info to the end users through a simple user interface....
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Preventing Manufacturing Disruptions with Inside Building Knowledge
Facility Management Mobile-First Platform Helps Manufacturers Run Safely and Smoothly
Manufacturers come in all shapes and sizes. Some run 24/7/365. Some have multiple shifts. Large manufacturers are like small cities with multiple buildings serving different purposes, including offices and warehouses....
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Ten Winter Facility Preparation Tips
A Cold Weather Checklist for Facility Teams
Preparing your facility for winter is all about predictive and preventive maintenance, according to Goodway, a facility maintenance cleaning product manufacturer, and other sources....
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Handling hospital emergencies is a tough job. Here are six safety questions all hospital facility managers should be able to answer.
How to handle six hospital emergency situations Knowing the answers to these hospital emergency questions can save lives: Do you have an easily accessible COVID-19 screening area for recording temperature checks? ...
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Here's why you should always be prepared if you oversee an old building
A Chicago polling place was the site of a burst overhead pipe on election day – causing a huge mess, showering paper ballots, disrupting voters and triggering a visit from the local fire department for damage control. Voters were redirected to another building. ...
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