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24 May

What To Do If The Fire Marshal Visits

What To Do If The Fire Marshal Visits Some Facilities Managers have been lucky enough to have never experienced a surprise inspection. But the odds aren’t always on your side: code regulations in the San Francisco Bay Area allow the fire marshal to ...

5 Apr

What Facility Managers Need To Know About Fire Pump Engine Maintenance

What Facility Managers Need To Know About Fire Pump Engine Maintenance The fire sprinkler system protecting your property is one of the most critical safety features of your building. Most facilities managers know that fire protection is required by most ...

28 Feb

NFPA 110 Compliance: Your Check-Up List

NFPA 110 Compliance: Your Check-Up List With a new year upon us, most facilities managers are going to test their critical systems to make sure they’re up to operational standards. But your emergency power system (EPS) has a whole other test it needs to ...

9 Feb

Annual Maintenance Requirements For Your Commercial Generator

Annual Maintenance Requirements For Your Commercial Generator It’s a new year, which means new budgets for Facilities Engineers and Property Managers. It’s also the season for new regulations to kick in, and to revisit the maintenance tasks you ...

17 Nov

Insulation Resistance Testing: How To Prevent Catastrophe In Your Emergency Power System

Insulation Resistance Testing: How To Prevent Catastrophe In Your Emergency Power System Insulation Resistance Testing: How To Prevent Catastrophe In Your Emergency Power System Insulation resistance testing is one of the most misunderstood elements in ...

18 Aug

The Five Questions You Must Answer To Ensure NFPA 110 Compliance

The Five Questions You Must Answer To Ensure NFPA 110 Compliance Planned maintenance is a critical part of any backup power system. Regular verification that an installed system is functional is necessary to ensure that standby power will be available ...

25 Apr

The Top 10 Questions About NFPA 110 Compliance

The Top 10 Questions About NFPA 110 Compliance Power outages can mean more than a temporary blackout. For critical commercial facilities, a power outage without a backup generator can result in the loss of revenue and even put lives in danger. The ...

17 Mar

3 Reasons You Need Generator Maintenance In Your Empty Buildings

The last thing a property owner or manager wants is an empty building. A commercial building without tenants is no longer generating revenue, but still incurring most of the costs associated with ownership: loan payments, taxes, insurance, utilities, and ...

8 Feb

Don’t Ignore These 2 to 5-Year Generator Maintenance Events

Don’t Ignore These 2 to 5-Year Generator Maintenance Events Don’t Ignore These 2 to 5-Year Generator Maintenance Events Properly maintained, your standby generator should last from 10,000 to 30,000 hours. But what if your generator is only running 50 ...

14 Jan

Annual Load Bank Testing Could Be The Most Critical Maintenance For Your Generator

Annual Load Bank Testing Could Be The Most Critical Maintenance For Your Generator There’s a saying in the generator servicing business that goes like this: the best generator is the one you never use. In other words, a generator is the kind of asset ...

29 Jul

Generator Maintenance on a Budget: How to Downsize the Smart Way

Generator Maintenance on a Budget: How to Downsize the Smart Way We once received a call from a company that had just purchased a commercial building with a large 1500KW generator in the basement. The generator seemed to be working fine during some ...

21 Jul

Fire Sprinkler System Maintenance: Who Takes Care of the Fire Pump Engine?

Fire Sprinkler System Maintenance: Who Takes Care of the Fire Pump Engine? Most of us know fire sprinklers as the little metal discs with red tongues that hang above our heads in offices and public buildings, waiting to rain down water from above in the ...

17 Jun

Commercial Generator Maintenance: How Much Does It Cost?

Commercial Generator Maintenance: How Much Does It Cost? Tucked away in a basement or outbuilding, it can be tempting to forget all about your generator until the power goes out—but like any other piece of large equipment, commercial generators need to ...

13 May

Is Your Generator NFPA 110 Compliant?

Is Your Generator NFPA 110 Compliant? For many businesses, a backup power system is critical to preventing costly business disruptions and preserving human life. Companies from hospitals to commercial real estate developments all rely on generators to ...