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Welcome to the BuiltSpace Blog

October 10, 2013

The As-built Drawing Challenge

Do you have a current drawing management system that actually helps find what you need when you need it? Can you find the right one easily? […]
September 26, 2013

Mobile Forms for Health and Safety Inspections

Mobile Forms for Health and Safety Inspections At BuiltSpace Technologies, we believe that using mobile forms on tablet computers or smart phones for safety check-lists and inspections is a better […]
September 13, 2013

BuiltSpace: Better Building Management

BuiltSpace’s integrated, collaborative facilities management solution brings all your building information into one place, in the cloud, available from almost any mobile device or computer. BuiltSpace […]
September 9, 2013

WIFI on the construction site can improve efficiency

Being “offline” just doesn’t work anymore. Constructing a building is as much about managing information as hammers and nails, so on-site communications has become critical infrastructure […]
August 19, 2013

Best Practice in Building Maintenance. Reactive, Preventative or Predictive?

Best Practice in Building Maintenance. Reactive, Preventative or Predictive?.
August 19, 2013

Mobile Deficiency Tracking –

With any construction project, no matter how big or small the ability proactively report, assign, and track deficiencies is essential.  At BuiltSpace Technologies we take a unique […]
July 29, 2013

Managing Buildings Using Mobile Forms Powered by Location Specific Data Part 2

In part 1 we discussed that mobile forms when used correctly, can significantly increase operational efficiencies.   By using digital forms for inspections and data collection on hand-held devices we can give field […]
July 26, 2013

Managing Buildings Using Mobile Forms Powered by Location Specific Data

At BuiltSpace Technologies, we believe that by using mobile technology to deliver location specific information in combination with mobile forms can significantly increase operational efficiencies. Location […]
July 26, 2013

QR Codes – The Perfect Asset ID Tag

Do you have service technicians and service contractors in your buildings installing and maintaining building systems?  Correct information is essential when servicing and maintaining equipment.  In an ideal […]
July 19, 2013

Tag and track service history of your equipment for pennies per year

BuiltSpace makes it easy for you to identify and tag your building assets and equipment, and share that information, by invitation, with other building stakeholders, to […]
July 2, 2013

Putting the fossil fuel energy era in perspective. Four generations beginning to end?

This past weekend I attended a Vancouver Heritage Foundation event to place a plaque on the site of the first gasoline station in Canada, at the […]
July 2, 2013

There’s no magic to reduced energy consumption , just hard work and better business processes.

There are really only five (some would say four) ways to reduce energy consumption in buildings. Energy efficiency – replacing existing building technology with more efficient […]
January 5, 2013

Maintenance matters: The energy cost of HVAC air filters.

Every day your building loses energy efficiency, with occasional improvement as equipment is serviced. The “drift”, if left unchecked, could be as much as 30 percent […]