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The Hidden Costs of Deferred Maintenance: Why It’s Essential to Budget for Annual Upkeep
As a property manager or building owner, it's tempting to prioritize immediate cost savings by deferring maintenance, but that's a gamble that rarely pays off. Deferred maintenance often leads to...
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Proactive Maintenance: How to Plan Your Annual Building Maintenance Budget
Whether it's unexpected repairs or a backlog of deferred maintenance quickly escalating to costly problems, forces are at work that will derail your annual building maintenance budget. One of the...
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How SafeSite Eases Compliance Oversight for Building Owners
Want to reduce your compliance workload while improving your building’s safety? Our SafeSite program simplifies OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) safety compliance for buildings, specifically for façade access and...
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Benefits of Turnkey Fall Protection Systems: Design, Installation, and Certification
In the book How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between, researchers analyzed...
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How Expertise Drives Safety Compliance Across Building Services
At Scotties, we specialize in various building services, including window washing and facade repair. This work requires our teams to traverse over 13,000 building facades yearly, and it's not a...
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Project Profile: Historic Facade Restoration Updated: May 15
The Overview Located in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina, a prominent government building’s façade had significant staining due to deferred cleaning. As the building is 85 years old with a façade...
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Prioritizing Safety of Building Façade Access and Fall Protection
Your building's façade conveys the first impression of aesthetics and serves as your first line of defense against environmental factors. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) requires you, as...
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Understanding Fall Protection: Importance, OSHA Standards, and Compliance
For the tenth year in a row, fall protection citations lead the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's (OSHA) list of most frequent violations. Despite the high human and financial costs...
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How Spring Cleaning Builds Resilience for Commercial Properties Updated: Jun 19
Leap year provided us an early spring this year, while the “prognosticator of prognosticators,” Punxatawney Phil, all but guaranteed it. With spring comes the welcoming, warm weather, losing an hour...
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