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4 08, 2016

Preventative Maintenance Planning

By |August 4th, 2016|Due Diligence, Property Condition Assessments|0 Comments

Preventative Maintenance plans are imperative for building owners to save time and money.  Without a definitive plan, many facility owners find themselves operating in a reactive mode when repairs are needed.  This causes headaches for the maintenance staff and occupants of a building, sometimes bringing productivity to a grinding halt.  Reactionary maintenance causes everyone more [...]

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17 06, 2016

Multifamily Accessibility: ADA

By |June 17th, 2016|Property Condition Assessments|0 Comments

In a previous blog post we talked about the applicable accessibility codes for multifamily properties.  In this post we start to dig deeper into the codes and look specifically at how the American’s with Disabilities Act (ADA) fits into the equation when assessing multifamily properties. American's With Disabilities Act (ADA) The Americans with Disabilities Act [...]

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8 05, 2016

Accessibility in Apartments

By |May 8th, 2016|Property Condition Assessments|0 Comments

One of the biggest issues that we see as property condition assessors in our day to day work is accessibility violations.  They are everywhere.  The running joke in our office is, if you went to assess the condition of a multifamily property and you didn’t find an accessibility violation, you weren’t looking hard enough.  So [...]

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27 04, 2016

What is Asbestos and Where is it Commonly Found?

By |April 27th, 2016|Environmental|0 Comments

Asbestos is the common term for six naturally occurring fibrous minerals: Chrysotile, crocidolite, amosite, anthophyllite, tremolite, and actinolite. Of these six categories, chrysotile and amosite are the most commonly used for building materials.  It's properties make it the ideal material to use in the building construction setting. Asbestos is fire retardant, high tensile strength, thermal [...]

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15 09, 2014

Holistic Design

By |September 15th, 2014|Holistic Design, LEED & Green Building|0 Comments

One of the biggest complaints that I hear about green building is the cost of implementing green strategies.  There’s some pretty flawed logic in those complaints because our employees have worked for many years to prove over and over again that it doesn't cost to go green, it pays to go green.  The secret to [...]

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29 07, 2014

Green Roofs; More than Pretty Landscapes

By |July 29th, 2014|LEED & Green Building|0 Comments

Purpose Having a vegetative green roof on a building is more than just a novelty and a landscape feature.  Green roofs are very effective tools that can be used to solve several different problems in a sustainable manor. So what does a green roof do exactly?  Aside from being a novelty for neighboring taller buildings [...]

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19 07, 2014

Rain Gardens; a Stormwater Management Tool

By |July 19th, 2014|Holistic Design, LEED & Green Building|0 Comments

Stormwater management has become an ever more important issue in the urban setting.  As our urban areas become more developed and more impervious surfaces like concrete and asphalt are installed the issue compounds itself.  Most of us don’t realize what happens to our stormwater after it touches the ground.  Stormwater experts sometimes talk about the [...]

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18 07, 2014

Air Infiltration Testing in Commercial Buildings

By |July 18th, 2014|Energy Efficiency, LEED & Green Building|0 Comments

In the energy efficiency world, air infiltration in buildings is the elephant in the room that no one is talking about.  We all know it exists, we all know that it can kill energy efficiency in a building….but we’re not doing enough about it. So what exactly are we talking about here?  Air that infiltrates [...]

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15 07, 2014

The Value Of LEED & Green Building Certification

By |July 15th, 2014|LEED & Green Building|0 Comments

There’s a lot of talk these days about green buildings.  We sometimes hear people remark that their buildings have been built to “LEED Standards” but have not gone through the rigors of certification.  It usually makes me cringe when I hear it because all I can think about is the lost opportunity.  But why do [...]

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