ARCHIBUS Applications: Clean Building

Clean Building

Streamline the time-consuming and highly-regulated process of identifying and abating indoor environmental hazards

Benefits

• Facilitates a safe working environment for building occupants by reducing potential exposure to hazardous materials
• Minimizes the potential for expensive litigation and monetary damages resulting from regulatory actions and/or occupational illnesses
• Averts costly operating shutdowns, loss of facility use, penalties, or fines resulting from hazardous material violations
• Reduces operational costs for regulatory compliance by streamlining the process of identifying, locating, sampling, documenting, and abating hazardous materials

Quickly identify areas with hazardous conditions using graphical views to streamline sampling and documentation processes in the course of abatement

Successful facility professionals need to actively monitor the potential of indoor environmental hazards, such as asbestos and radon to lead paint and mold. ARCHIBUS Clean Building helps these managers protect the health of building occupants, minimize organizational liability, and avoid costly fines or possible litigation. Unlike spreadsheets or other non-integrated tools, Web-based ARCHIBUS Clean Building provides a flexible and highly systematic process to help ensure all hazardous materials are quickly and accurately located, tracked, and abated using searches that connect directly to graphical views of space and equipment inventories. In addition, Clean Building’s ability to easily share and integrate hazardous materials data with other systems and processes greatly decreases the likelihood of errors/omissions, averts unnecessary shutdowns, and reduces the overall cost of regulatory compliance.

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ARCHIBUS Applications: Compliance Management

 Compliance Management

Manage complex compliance requirements proactively to help mitigate risk, ensure safe work environments, and reduce administrative burdens

Benefits

• Ensures a safe, productive work environment by implementing a structured process to comply with regulations, codes, and/or best practices
• Minimizes the likelihood of regulatory actions including monetary fines and/or costly litigation resulting from inadequate compliance oversight
• Lowers the overall cost of maintaining a comprehensive, defensible compliance program by reducing administrative time spent on data collection, notifications, and document management
• Helps reduce the number of Environmental Health and Safety (EH&S) incidents and insurance premiums associated with them by identifying and correcting compliance gaps

The Compliance Programs Map enables managers to quickly visualize where their highest risk projects are located as well as the regulatory status and priorities

Property and facility professionals are responsible for providing safe, efficient, and productive work environments, yet they can face a bewildering array of codes and regulations with different schedules, costs, and implications for the organization. Unlike spreadsheets or other non-integrated tools, Web-based ARCHIBUS Compliance Management provides a highly scalable solution to easily and efficiently negotiate the substantial data and recordkeeping involved with regulatory compliance programs and permitting processes. This helps reduce administrative costs and prevents costly disruptions such as occupational injuries, property damage, and shutdowns that may result from inadequate compliance practices. ARCHIBUS Compliance Management helps mitigate risk to protect an organization’s reputation and enhance stakeholder value.

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ARCHIBUS Applications: Waste Management

Track and manage waste streams from generation through disposition to minimize health and regulatory risk

Benefits

• Simplifies the process for tracking and managing hazardous waste streams to sustain a safe working environment
• Decreases the risk of fines or litigation surrounding hazardous waste storage and disposal procedures
• Increases the visibility and improves accountability for waste reduction or recycling initiatives to help reduce carbon footprint and improve LEED or other sustainability scores
• Reduces the cost and effort of satisfying waste audit and reporting requirements

ARCHIBUS Waste Management provides defensible information to assess the effectiveness of waste reduction and recycling programs in addition to tracking and managing hazardous waste

Managing waste streams, particularly hazardous waste, is often fraught with risk and possible negative outcomes, if handled poorly. Organizations need not only to cope with the often burdensome regulatory paperwork, but also to avoid the risk of errors, omissions, and accidents that can lead to injuries, penalties and/or potential litigation. Web-based ARCHIBUS Waste Management provides a streamlined and integrated approach to tracking, managing, and reducing both hazardous and non-hazardous waste. It helps smoothly process the information flow, starting from the point of generation, through accumulation, storage, shipment or emission, and final disposition. And it provides defensible information to assess the effectiveness of waste reduction and recycling programs that, in turn, help reduce carbon footprint and increase LEED™ or other sustainability scores.

ARCHIBUS Applications: Green Building

The goal of the Green Building Application is to achieve carbon footprint and environmental sustainability certification goals for individual buildings or across an entire portfolio.

Benefits

• Delivers an information framework to help reduce overall carbon footprint
• Facilitates compliance with internal or external reporting requirements
• Streamlines the computation and comparison of greenhouse gas emissions for all buildings in a portfolio and tracks changes over time
• Tracks progress, evaluates payback, and identifies best practices to simplify sustainability certification and requalification initiatives

Compare emissions by building, scope, and year at a glance and drill down to emission scope detail to identify key drivers and areas for improvement

Managers are increasingly being tasked with achieving carbon footprint goals and managing environmental sustainability certification scores for individual buildings or across their entire portfolio. ARCHIBUS Green Building aids those managers by delivering a highly versatile and robust Web-based platform to provide the information framework for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and managing the environmental sustainability certification and recertification process. The application helps guide users through the processes of defining environmental criteria and protocols, collecting portfolio data, and evaluating results to help make informed and cost-effective decisions to achieve sustainability goals.

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ARCHIBUS Applications: Energy Management

The purpose of ARCHIBUS' Energy Management Application is to track and manage energy use to control costs, reduce carbon footprint, and mitigate risk, something we all want to do!

Benefits

• Lowers annual energy costs, typically by 5% (or approximately $0.10 – 0.20 USD per square foot of space/year) and reduces carbon footprint
• Provides audit capabilities to easily access, aggregate, and evaluate consumption patterns as the basis to renegotiate rates and consolidate energy providers
• Reduces business risk and exposure to changes in energy costs or carbon emissions regulation through “what-if” analyses
• Improves decision-making by aligning energy spending to organizational priorities
• Energy Management Screenshot

Graphical dashboard views, such as Utility Cost with Consumption (by building and billing period) shown above, simplifies visualization and analysis while improving decision support for energy management strategies

With increasing utility costs, mandates to reduce carbon emissions, and sustainability efforts gaining more visibility, effective energy management has become even more important for organizations. ARCHIBUS Energy Management provides the means to easily aggregate, evaluate, and optimize energy and utility spending decisions to reduce unnecessary consumption and costs. Unlike spreadsheets or finance software alone, Energy Management helps users correlate and manage extensive cost data with real-time facility and infrastructure portfolio information to track energy expenditures against a business plan or objective benchmarks.

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ARCHIBUS Applications: Environmental Sustainability Assessment

Measure performance indicators and mitigate risk to reduce an organization’s carbon footprint and achieve other environmental goals

Benefits

• Establishes proactive sustainability processes that can improve operational efficiencies, enhance stakeholder work environments, and boost asset value
• Identifies which assets should be repaired, renovated or replaced to achieve environmental efficiency goals or support an existing LEED™ or BREEAM® rating program
• Improves capital budgeting and planning capabilities by tracking costs and budgets associated with environmental deficiencies
• Increases efficiency of sustainability efforts by integrating assessment with work order management and by using a unified data repository

The Assessment Scoreboard provides users with a graphical approach to evaluate high-priority environmental sustainability items objectively and then drill down for more detailed information on individual items

An increasing number of organizations are recognizing the strategic value of reducing their carbon footprint to protect the environment and enhance their bottom line. Web-based ARCHIBUS Environmental Sustainability Assessment helps make the concept of environmental sustainability a reality by tracking, ranking, and documenting details on the condition and use of physical assets so remedial action can be taken. Unlike spreadsheets and other manual processes, the application provides a truly objective and systematic method of identifying and prioritizing facility replacements, upgrades, and renovations, based on environmental sustainability criteria while leveraging other ARCHIBUS facilities data from its central repository.

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ARCHIBUS Applications: Telecommunications & Cable Management

Manage every aspect of your network infrastructure to facilitate planning, improve asset management, and enhance customer service

Benefits

• Shortens the planning process by maintaining a well-documented physical network and simplifies trouble-shooting tasks
• Extends the lifecycles of telecommunications and data assets by facilitating reassignment of surplus items
• Coordinates information and resources among responsible departments to ensure employees get network access quickly
• Manages telecom inventory from the Web or intranet to facilitate organizational efficiency

With the rapid pace of technological change and adoption, it is critical that updates to your network are accurately reflected to facilitate planning, improve inventory control, and enhance network up-time. With the ARCHIBUS Telecommunications & Cable  Management application, you can manage the network’s system capacity information, the location of system connections, maintenance histories, upgrades, and much more. This indispensable solution does everything from simplifying trouble-shooting to eliminating communication discontinuities during the move/add/change process so you gain more control over your network instead of letting it control you.

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ARCHIBUS Applications: Furniture & Equipment Management

The purpose of ARCHIBUS' Furniture & Equipment Manager is to monitor and control physical asset cost and utilization to increase organizational accountability.

Benefits

• Manages asset ownership and usage to increase organizational accountability and reduce costs
• Reduces the need for write-offs by tracking the location and depreciation of assets
• Facilitates trial layouts for analyzing various move options before executing them
• Executes simple moves, adds, and changes to maximize/minimize disruption and sustain productivity
• Analyzes the financial impact of furniture and equipment inventories

Effectively managing physical assets, such as furniture and equipment, is vital to maintaining the financial health of an organization. Yet trying to track the changeover of assets and staff while keeping an eye on costs can often seem overwhelming. The ARCHIBUS Furniture & Equipment Management application is an AutoCAD®-based solution that helps you manage those assets cost-effectively and design more productive work environments. This application also helps minimize costs and maximize productivity in the planning and execution of individual or small group moves,
adds, and changes. Organizations encountering large group moves or complex move/add/change processes can also implement the Web-based ARCHIBUS Enterprise Move Management application.

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ARCHIBUS Applications: Asset Portal

Track and manage physical assets to improve data accuracy, increase asset utilization, and optimize acquisition or disposition decisions.

Benefits

• Delivers improved furniture and equipment utilization rates, which can reduce capital expenditures by as much as 10% annually
• Tracks and manages asset ownership and usage to increase organizational accountability and promote redeployment opportunities
• Ensures compliance with financial accounting requirements and/or regulatory mandates
• Establishes a coherent process for integrating asset planning, acquisition, tracking, disposal and investment recovery
• Maintains an accurate inventory of network infrastructure to facilitate improved planning and a high level of internal customer support
• Asset Management Screenshot

Asset Portal provides the means to improve data accuracy of the asset registry, increase asset utilization, and optimize asset acquisition and disposal decisions within an overall capital plan

Increasing asset utilization and optimizing acquisition and/or disposition practices are essential to increasing organizational efficiency and achieving superior financial results. ARCHIBUS Asset Portal provides the means to improve data accuracy of the asset registry, increase asset utilization, and optimize asset acquisition and disposal decisions within an overall capital plan. Asset Portal’s capabilities go beyond a merely financial focus and can also trace assets to the entity that is responsible for the asset, the cost center or department that depends on the asset, and/or the physical location where the asset resides. This helps increase organizational accountability and facilitate asset redeployment, when appropriate.

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ARCHIBUS Applications: Space Inventory & Performance

Evaluate and plan space usage to maximize efficiency and decrease total occupancy costs

Benefits

• Delivers flexible, self-service reporting for effective space allocation and cost control
• Improves evaluation of building performance and enables accurate benchmarking
• Enhances design/planning capabilities to use space more efficiently
• Helps achieve business results with ARCHIBUS Quick-Start, a productivity aid which includes tutorial videos and “How To” instructions
• Increases productivity with ARCHIBUS All-in-One Home Page with quick access to 80% of tasks

Use the single view, easy to use space console or mobile interface to manage space assignments to departments and employees, plan for future space needs, and report on portfolio-wide space utilization

Knowing how much space an entity has, and how efficiently it is being used, is essential for managing the organization’s Total Cost of Occupancy. To expedite self-service access to space inventory and usage reports for decision support, ARCHIBUS Space Inventory & Performance provides an integrated Webbased solution for viewing and managing an organization’s different types of space (such as departmental boundaries/rooms/common areas, vertical penetrations, service areas, and more) to ensure optimal space allocation. With this application, managers can plan for greater space efficiency by co-locating departments and identifying opportunities for consolidation.

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ARCHIBUS Applications:Commissioning

 Collect, coordinate and share building information to identify and correct design/build issues prior to occupancy

Benefits

• Streamlines the verification process that a facility and its systems meet the as-designed specifications and owner requirements
• Provides the mechanism to identify and correct problems early in the design/build process
• Reduces costs associated with post-occupancy troubleshooting, claims, and corrective work
• Optimizes downstream building performance by providing the tools to support continuous improvement in energy and operational cost savings

ARCHIBUS Commissioning helps ensure smooth deployment of complex building systems and maintenance practices, resulting in fewer start-up issues and maintenance errors/omissions



Building owners are often hindered by the lack of effective and efficient communication during the design, construction and commissioning stages, resulting in unnecessary costs and operational inefficiencies. The ARCHIBUS Commissioning application helps solve this problem by capturing and coordinating graphic and non-graphic data – including Building Information Modeling (BIM), as-builts, shop drawings, maintenance manuals, space, and equipment information – in one central repository. The application makes all data elements searchable and accessible for viewing using a Web browser or a mobile device. And the application correlates all the information to confirm a facility and its systems meet the as-designed specifications. ARCHIBUS Commissioning also helps lower the costs associated with claims and corrective actions, as well as optimize downstream building system performance.

ARCHIBUS APPLICATIONS: Condition Assessment

Benefits

• Mitigates risk by prioritizing problems for correction, based on objective measures and organizational needs
• Enables proactive identification of deficiencies to extend asset service life
• Demonstrates how costs are associated with corrective measures to justify budgets
• Reduces administrative cost by establishing a closed loop assessment and resolution process costs

Track conditions in the field, identify high-priority items at a glance, and drill down to detailed information for taking immediate corrective action

Could you justify increased deferred maintenance and capital renewal spending based on static, and possibly outdated information? Web-based ARCHIBUS Condition Assessment provides an objective, dynamic process for evaluating physical assets to help substantiate corrective action, based on risk mitigation and operational priorities. Using Condition Assessment’s accurate, timely repository can help increase asset service life, minimize costly downtime, reduce administrative expense, and streamline capital planning and budgeting processes. Successful deployment could deliver improved Facility Condition Indices at a lower total cost of occupancy.

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