Smart Building Technology Can Help State and Local Government Facilities Teams Reduce Deferred Maintenance in Their Buildings
Shutdowns during the pandemic, budget cuts, early retirements, shortage of skilled labor – all of this is compounding the challenges of state and local government facility management teams. Backlog in regular maintenance continues to rise resulting in a higher level of deferred maintenance. The ARC Facilities Smart Building Technology solution can help increase efficiency and reduce maintenance backlogs quickly
Create Instant Access to Building Information for Facility Management Teams in the Field, While Eliminating Productivity Bottlenecks Caused by Data Trapped in Storage Rooms and File Servers
There are over 130,000 state and local government buildings across the United States. Managing these buildings is a significant challenge for government facility management teams. They all face one single challenge –doing more with less. As state and local government buildings continue to age, the maintenance requirements grow, while facilities staff and resources continue to diminish. Smart building technology like ARC Facilities will help reduce bottlenecks and increase efficiency for facility management teams to do more with less.
Aging State and Local Facilities Without Regular Maintenance Can Compromise Safety and Security of Occupants
Aging facilities, which lack regular maintenance over long periods of time, can become traps for the employees and visitors of those buildings. Most of these facilities also do not have building information organized and streamlined. Therefore, accessing building information in emergencies or even for routine maintenance becomes a challenge. Something as simple as a burst water main or a leaky gas pipe cannot be contained immediately in the absence of building information. Smart building technology can provide instant access to building information through a simple app from anywhere anytime.
Improve Asset Maintenance with Quick Access to O&M Information from the Field
Aging buildings also means aging assets in facilities. Air conditioners, heaters, boilers, elevators, escalators, etc. all require routine maintenance as they age. Field technicians in these buildings need instant access to O&M information on a regular basis from the field to address maintenance issues. When technicians must go back-and-forth between document storage rooms and field assets, it significantly reduces the work orders they complete daily. ARC Facilities smart building technology can solve this problem by providing instant access to O&M information from the field.
Lack of Instant Access to Building Information Can Also Turn Simple Incidents into Life-Threatening Emergencies During Natural Disasters
Simple emergencies such as a leaky gas pipe or a faulty electrical panel can become a major hazard during natural disasters or in a crisis such as an active shooter on site. It’s not uncommon for facilities teams to be scrambling around looking for building information when first responders arrive. Having building information readily available for security personnel and first responders not only helps emergency and life safety personnel but can save lives. ARC Facilities smart building technology enables access to building information instantly from anywhere any time. More importantly, the information can easily be shared with others via mobile devices within seconds.
Software for Local Government Facilities Teams Should Incorporate Smart Building Technology to Protect and Preserve Historical Information from Being Lost When Employees Leave
When tenured employees retire or leave, historical information in facilities will be lost forever. This is a major problem in state and local government facilities since most of these facilities are aging and have gone through a significant amount of changes in terms of renovations and retrofits. Therefore, loss of such historical data could hamper the ability of facilities teams to contain the situation in emergencies.
Timely Incorporation of Closeouts and As-Builts is Critical to Maintain the Integrity of Building Information in Facilities
As facilities age, building information keeps accumulating. Renovations, retrofits, code upgrades and more, must be done over the years. After every project, there will be additional building information submitted to facilities managers and it will need to be incorporated into the main facility drawings. Unfortunately, as-builts and closeouts are often placed in boxes and stored in document storage rooms. This makes things very difficult and inefficient for facilities teams not only during emergencies, but also routine maintenance.
Government Facilities Will Ultimately Require Instant Access to Building Information, Not Only to Boost Productivity in Facility Management, But Also to Protect Employees and Occupants
Access to critical building information in state and local government buildings is likely to become mandatory in the future. Building information will continue to accumulate over the years, and access to such information becomes even more difficult in terms of regular maintenance or in emergencies. ARC Facilities smart building technology will help facilities management teams not only access the data, but will also help them manage critical information over the years. This will enable state and local government facilities teams to always have accurate and reliable building information readily available.
Boost Team Productivity with ARC Facilities
Our facilities focused software empowers your team to complete more work orders, improve building safety, and capture legacy knowledge that would otherwise be lost when key individuals retire. Our teams do the work while you stay focused on maintaining safe, efficient facilities.
Lance Ollivierre
Director of Facilities Operations, Central Piedmont Community College
Once we learned about ARC Facilities, it was like a light bulb went off. We had a solution to our problems.
Warren Sun
Senior Director of Operations, Lodi Unified School Disctrict.
We wouldn't go back to paper for a minute and we look forward to utilizing other ARC Solution capabilities in the not-to distant future.
Jonathan Westall
Vice President, Ancillary Services, MLK Community Healthcare
ARC is easy to use with all of our devices intergrated onto one tracking platform. Ipad and CarePhone makes it a seamless mobile solution
John Crouch
Director of Facilities, AdventHealth Wesley Chapel
In the world of maintenance, I need to get as much work done correctly, safely and as quickly as possible.There’s a need to reduce the amount of time spent looking for information.With ARC Facilities I can achieve that.
Arthur Blue
Director of Plant Operations and Facility Services, Cone Health
The ARC Solution is tremendous in the sense that not only does it capture our legacy information, it gives us visibility and control how to manage our utility system and orient our teams.
Mark Reed
Senior Manager Enterprise Security Operations, City of Hope
The ARC Facilities platform puts needed information in the hands of staff to quickly locate shut-offs, access points, and equipment
John Sinutko
Director of Facilities, Maintenance & Operations, Moorpark College
Implementing the ARC Facilities solution is providing an extreme time saver for my team. I've learned that effective changes happen over time
Powerful Features of Facility Management Software for Government
Preventive Maintenance
Share real-time data on equipment with contractors on the move and access asset maintenance logs to facilitate planned preventive maintenance.
Mobile First Solutions
Our robust government facility management software gives you instant access to government and federal facility data anywhere.
Emergency Mitigation
Access emergency plans and equipment, safety logs, training manuals, evacuation routes, refuge rooms, etc. to limit the damage caused during government building emergencies.
Government Equipment Maps and Shut-offs
By finding shut-off locations quickly, you can stop plumbing failure or water leaks in government facilities on the go.
QR Code Scanners Available
By scanning QR codes, you can access government maintenance and operations documentation for every piece of equipment; so that you can supervise, maintain, and repair it whenever necessary.
Renovation Data Access on the Go
Maintain the efficiency of your construction teams and contractors by accessing renovation or retrofit government project data quickly.
Instant Data Sharing
Share government facility data anytime, anywhere with contractors, first-emergency responders, field workers, occupants seamlessly through our government maintenance management software.
Improve the Performance of Government Buildings with our Facility Management Software
ARC Facilities government facility management software enables instant access to critical building information. Access facility data quickly and share it instantly with all stakeholders.
Smart Tool That Compliments Existing Software
If you are using a CMMS or BAM (Building Automation Management) to manage a government building, our facility management software is a great choice to fill the gaps for instant access to critical information for on-the-go facilities teams.
Real-Time Information
Government facilities have countless document storage rooms and accessing building data is time-consuming. This delays project work or pending operations, which creates facility management roadblocks. Overcome Avoid this challenge by gaining access to real-time information via mobile devices with our facility management mobile solutions.
Intuitive and Agile
You can access all your government facility information anywhere, anytime with our mobile-friendly document management software. With just a few taps on your mobile device, you’ll have the facility information you need.
Why Choose Us
The Facility Management Leader Trusted by the Government
ARC Facilities is trusted by various government entities across the United States.
Frequently Asked Questions
We provide real-time building information to all government facilities, which is available via a mobile app instantly, leading to improving productivity and boosting the functionality of facilities teams.
Preventive maintenance can be accomplished with a facility management app as it allows users to scan equipment data revealing asset details like maintenance logs, charts, equipment data, and contractor information.
The ARC Facilities app helps plan with smarter preventative maintenance as it provides instant access to all your critical equipment data. It can easily keep everyone on the same page about all assets information and ensure that a government facility equipment is well maintained.
ARC Facilities offers instant access to compliance data at the fingertips using our compliance management software. Access compliance details and logs created using a mobile, tablet or PC.
The ARC Facilities smart building management app reduces operating costs by providing accurate data to all facility managers and teams. By leveraging this data, operation managers can make smarter budget plans that reduce hidden costs.
ARC Facilities leverages a secure scanning software and combines it with impenetrable cloud security that ensures all building data stored is kept secure.