ARCHIBUS is Headed in an Exciting Direction

As a CEO and business partner with ARCHIBUS, I have been watching the development of the company very closely for the past 20 years. As I discussed in my previous article, "Why ARCHIBUS is here to stay!", Bruce Forbes laid a solid foundation destined for success, paving a road for Wise Cho, the new CEO of ARCHIBUS, to follow and lead the company to continued profitability and reputation as a leading and innovative IWMS provider.

I was very impressed with Wise Cho's presentation at the 2016 NEXUS Conference. I looked for a few key factors in his presentation, and I was not disappointed. The four main concepts that I was looking for, and which were presented were:

1. A defined mission statement
2. A connection back to the core values of the company
3. A clear idea of the direction to where the company is headed
4. An ambient of collaboration by allowing other leaders within the company lead key discussions

Being a CEO myself, I understand the pressure felt and the responsibilities placed within that world, and I empathize with those put into that position. It can be a difficult, and sometimes lonely, road, as many decisions must be made that require careful thought, planning, and execution, and occasoinally cannot be discussed with anyone else because of legal obligations. I see in Wise Cho a leader who is capable of filling the role as ARCHIBUS' new CEO and a leader who is capable of making these decisions essential to ARCHIBUS' continued success. 

We at RSC are excited to see what new direction Wise Cho will take ARCHIBUS in the coming years!

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Success with energy management

Bob: You just completed a really good installation of energy management module for one of our government clients in Southern California. Talk to me about some of the successes that happened there.

Todd: It was exciting to see them get their utility information available in ARCHIBUS in a way that would allow them to do some reporting that had previously taken them weeks or months. It can now be done in minutes or hours. One example is that the two most common questions they were asked were “Tell me how much a building of this type costs in terms of electricity and gas usage.” Those used to take them quite a few days to put together the report that was necessary and we built them a report that took just a couple of minutes. 

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What sets RSC apart?

Matt: What sets RSC apart from other IWMS consultants?

Bob: I think that what we do really well is deliver quickly and with good quality. I think a couple of other things are we listen to our clients, synthesize what they say to us, analyze it, and then provide them the solution they asked for, instead of giving them a “cookie-cutter” or “out-of-the-box” answer. 

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Advantages of energy management

Bob: If you were to talk to other clients about the energy management module, what would you say are some advantages of using the system?

Todd: One of the things that ARCHIBUS brings that’s unique is the ability to pull in data from external weather agencies to compare energy usage to actual climate models. That’s a great thing. You can actually look at the energy, gas, and electricity usage and you can plot that against what the cooling degree days for that same period were and see that your energy usage may be a bit off the charts this year but maybe that’s because it was a hotter year than last year. That’s a useful thing to be able to do. It’s difficult to do in the client’s old system, but easy to do in ARCHIBUS. 

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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.

*Information for this article provided by ARCHIBUS*

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Why do companies need IWMS?

Megan: Why is there a need for an IWMS system and what you provide?

Bob: It’s really an infant application. It’s not like accounting or architecture that have been around for decades or centuries. It’s only been around for about 35 years. What happens is when a company gets to about 2,000 employees, they begin to lose track of things. So their strategic planning, their acquisition, or reduction is very difficult for them to understand. What this system does is it allows you to graphically show your occupancy, your vacancy, where your division and departments are, your organizational breakdown visually on a floorplan, and it is live against a database so you can do some very good strategic reports. The beginning claim to fame is helping these companies to make these strategic decisions as they are growing or reducing at about 2,000 employees or greater. Now we have some companies that have about 60,000 employees, 30,000, 20,000, even 10,000, but 2,000 is the break. 

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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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