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Moving 8 years of data from one system to another is the kind of project that can keep facilities teams struggling through a legacy system that isn’t working for them. The facilities team at Wheaton College was up to the challenge of consolidating the valuable work order history and institutional knowledge they'd been generating since 2017, so that everyone from leadership to summer interns could actively engage with it. Working with AkitaBox's Customer Success team, they found creative ways to preserve what mattered and move forward, running real-time dashboards, tracking accountability, and giving leadership visibility they hadn't had before. "The data is here, and it's telling us the same story as though we've been using AkitaBox for several years." — Jay Bieszke, Chief Facilities Officer, Wheaton College Learn more in our recent case study. https://bit.ly/44xSdAd #FacilityManagementsSoftware #WheatonCollege

🎙️The latest Facilities Unfiltered podcast is out now!🎙️ A “final” facility condition assessment report starts aging the moment it’s delivered. For many AEC teams, the static report became the default deliverable—and it creates friction on both sides of the table. In Episode 23 of Facilities Unfiltered, Josh and Nic unpack why traditional report-building can: • Consume engineering hours on formatting instead of problem-solving • Drain project profitability for AEC partners • Leave owners with a snapshot that’s hard to keep current—and harder to use for faster decisions If you're a building owner who flipped straight to the charts in an old FCA report or now have one collecting dust, this conversation will also challenge how your organization defines “deliverable”— and what modern capital planning should look like. 🎧 Listen to Episode 23 of Facilities Unfiltered. 👇 #FacilityConditionAssessment #CapitalPlanning #FacilitiesManagement #AssetManagement #AEC

Join us in congratulating Jessica Hamilton on 10 years with AkitaBox! As our Support Coordinator, Jessica's unmatched expertise helps ensure customers get the most out of AkitaBox, whether they're managing assets and operations or delivering facility assessments. Thank you, Jess! 🎉🐕🏢🐕🎉 #WorkAnniversary #OneTeam #EmployeeRecognition

If you're building an FCA tool, you're not building just one tool. You're building seven interconnected systems. That's why the in-house build keeps stalling, and why AI coding tools haven't changed the equation the way AEC firms hoped they would. We broke down the build-vs-buy math: https://bit.ly/4ff6Du6

Every facility team we talk to is being asked to do more with fewer people, tighter budgets, and aging buildings that don't care about your staffing problems. On this week's Facilities Unfiltered, Neil Simons from RC Mowers USA lays out the future of short staffed grounds crews: autonomous mowers handling the acreage, robotic string trimmers on the horizon, maybe even robotic flower gardeners. And in 5-8 years? No rider on top of that mower at all. That same principle applies inside your buildings. Tools like FM software don't replace your team. They give your team back the hours they're currently burning on low-value tasks, so they can focus on work that actually moves the needle. 🎧 New episode: Link below 👇 #FacilityManagement #GroundsMaintenance #DoMoreWithLess #FacilitiesUnfiltered #AssetManagement

🎙️The latest Facilities Unfiltered podcast is out now!🎙️ We sat down with Neil Simons from RC Mowers USA to talk about how autonomous mowing tech is helping short-staffed FM teams do more with the same crew. The machines track their own hours and acres, giving managers real information to make maintenance calls instead of guessing. That's the shift happening across facility management right now. When your assets report back to you, you move from reactive to proactive. From guessing to knowing. 🎧New episode out now: 👇 #FacilityManagement #AssetManagement #FacilitiesUnfiltered #DoMoreWithLess

Lifecycle cost awareness isn't a nice-to-have. It's how you protect the budget you've already fought to get. Everyone gets excited about the shiny modernization, the newest tech, the big capital project. The question you need to ask before the money flies?: What does this cost us in year 5? Year 10? And do we have the people internally to keep it running — or are we paying someone else to do it? Thomas Arganda manages 900+ capital assets across 60 school food service locations for Stockton Unified. He's sat in the facilities chair and the food services chair. His message to stakeholders is clear: if you can't show the real cost of ownership before the commitment is made, you're going to eat into budgets fast. 🎧 Full conversation on Facilities Unfiltered — link in comments. #FacilitiesUnfiltered #AssetManagement #AssetLifecycle

Happy 4th of July from the AkitaBox team! 🎆 In honor of Independence Day, AkitaBox is closed today, July 3. Here's to the people who keep buildings running 365 days a year, holidays included. Enjoy a well-earned day off. Or at least a well-earned hot dog. 🇺🇸 Happy Independence Day, everyone. #HappyFourthOfJuly #4thOfJuly #AkitaBox

Your facility condition assessment has a shelf life, and it's shorter than you think. Most FCAs start losing value within 6 months. The cost estimates drift. The asset conditions change. And the binder sits there, collecting dust, until someone pays to do the whole thing over again. That's the FCA hamster wheel, and building owners are getting off it. A Living FCA, delivered digitally through software, doesn't expire on delivery. It stays current as your facility changes, feeds your capital planning with real data instead of gut feelings, and means the data you paid for actually compounds in value instead of decaying on a shelf. We break down what a Living FCA actually looks like, why the math favors it, and what to demand in your next FCA RFP. 👇 #FCASoftware #FacilityAssessment #FacilitiesData

🎙️The latest Facilities Unfiltered podcast is out now!🎙️ 900+ capital assets across 60 locations. Refrigerators, freezers, combi ovens, milk coolers, delivery trucks — and that's before you count the small wares. On this episode of Facilities Unfiltered, guest Thomas Arganda, MPA, SNS , Director of Child Nutrition for Stockton Unified School District, breaks down what asset management actually looks like when you're feeding thousands of kids daily with no summer break — and why temperature monitoring sensors revealed problems his team didn't even know existed. The takeaway: You can't protect food safety, budget, or warranties without knowing the full picture of what you own, where it is, and how it's performing. 🎧 Listen to Episode 21 now. 👇