Tips to Maximize Your Facilities

Summer 2014

In This Issue

Three Green Initiatives to Take This Summer

Why PCAs are not the Right Report for Common Interest Real Estate

Examples of Good and Bad Rooftop Penetrations for Refrigerant Lines

What's the Right Type of Funding Plan for You?

"SEE" How Thermal Imaging Helped Owner Evaluate Construction

zumBrunnen Proud to Announce New Projects

Visit Us at LeadingAge Florida

Three Green Initiatives to Take this Summer

How "green" are your facilities? There are easy ways to become more green each time you renovate.

Have You Considered all Three Items on Our List

for Your Next Project?

Why PCAs are not the Right Report

for Common Interest Real Estate

Learn why Common Interest Real Estate Properties benefit from a combination of Transition Reports and Reserve Studies instead of a Property Condition Assessment Report.

Learn Why a PCA is Not the Best Report

for Common Interest Real Estate Properties

Examples of Good and Bad Rooftop Penetrations for Refrigerant Lines

Refrigerant lines for rooftop condensing units must penetrate the roof at some point. There are proper ways to create this penetration, and others are not-so-appropriate.

See Examples of Proper and Improper Rooftop Penetration

What's the Right Type of Funding Plan for You?

Did you know there are five different types of reserve study funding plans? This summary provides a quick overview of the different types of plans. If you need assistance in selecting the best type of plan, we are eager to help. Please call 404-601-4050.

Summary of Reserve Study Funding Plans

"SEE" How Thermal Imaging Helped Owner

Evaluate Construction

How do you make sure facilities are built correctly prior to making the final payment to the contractor? Here's a unique example where an Owner asked us to use our thermographic equipment to evaluate their new facilities.

"See" What Our Thermal Imaging Equipment Uncovered

zumBrunnen Proud to Announce New Projects

Smart facilities planning is critical for ALL types of business, and we are proud to announce a large number of new projects with clients across the country. We are assisting in many industries including: senior living, healthcare, multifamily, churches, condos, home owner associations and more! We want to extend a warm welcome to our new clients and express our extreme gratitude to our ongoing clients. We appreciate the opportunity to serve you!

Learn More About Our Projects and Services

Visit Us at LeadingAge Florida

July 29 - 30, 2014 - LeadingAge Florida Annual Convention & Exposition, Orlando, FL. We will be co-presenting an educational session titled Can We Afford our Strategic Plan? Using the Tools of Capital Assessment and Financial Planning on July 28 from 8:30 am to 10:00 am. We will be exhibiting at Booth #304.

Summer is here, so keeping facilities cool and landscape maintained become higher priorities. With proper planning and diagnostics, anticipating seasonal facilities and grounds issues becomes an easier task.

Regardless of the season, maximizing the efficiency of your facilities is always a smart move. Please see our new white paper and Facility Management Performance Self-Assessment Tool to see how you are doing.

In each newsletter, we are delighted to announce new clients. Smart planning is critical for every market niche, and we are pleased to serve as a partner and help with facilities assessments and other planning services.

As always, we welcome your feedback and suggestions. We also appreciate our friends following us on Facebook and participating in our Blog. Thank you for choosing zumBrunnen as your Independent Building Consultant! We appreciate the trust you place in us to maximize the value of your facilities.

Sincerely,

John zumBrunnen
Managing Partner
404-601-4060
jzumbrunnen@zumbrunnen.com