Tag: Chester Avey

The Coordination Overload Quietly Burning Out Facilities Managers

By Chester Avey, Contributing Writer Jul 15, 2026 Maintenance and Operations

Updated: Jul 15, 2026

Ask a facilities manager what they do, and the honest answer in 2026 sounds less like building operations and more like air traffic control. A typical morning means lining up an HVAC contractor, chasing a quote that was promised last week, approving an invoice, fielding a tenant complaint about a meeting room, confirming a fire […]

CrowdStrike IT Outage: Why Facilities Managers Should Take Notice

By Chester Avey, Contributing Writer Jul 29, 2024 Emergency Preparedness

Updated: Jul 29, 2024

Facilities management is one of many industries that have grown increasingly digitized and interconnected over the last several years. Technology is now integral to ensuring smooth facility operations, maintaining safety, tracking assets in real-time using the Internet of Things (IoT), optimizing the utilization of resources, and so on. As recent events have shown, when essential […]