Facility Improvement Corporation

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Businesses need to safeguard their assets, from building operations to data integrity to corporate security. It is criti...
10/07/2025

Businesses need to safeguard their assets, from building operations to data integrity to corporate security. It is critical to success in today’s business world. That’s why it is essential to rely on the partnership of FICO and Schneider Electric to ensure that you have the best business security and continuity of operations at all levels.

EcoStructureTM Security Expert is an online platform developed by the experts at Schneider Electric. The platform enables facility managers to monitor their building operations, view security settings, and check intrusion alerts and access control, all from a single control panel. Facility managers can accomplish this from multiple devices, including desktop or laptop computers, tablets, and even cell phones. This multiple-device capability is vital because facility managers are often responsible for managing multiple buildings and operations.

Learn More: https://facility-improvement.com/index.php/2025/10/07/fico-helps-safeguard-the-integrity-of-your-building-operations-data-and-security/

Facility managers are critically aware that heating, cooling, and controlling the environment in office buildings, hospi...
08/25/2025

Facility managers are critically aware that heating, cooling, and controlling the environment in office buildings, hospitals, colleges, or high schools accounts for an average of 30% of energy costs each month. This slice of the energy-usage pie is one of the fastest-growing cost categories. It is also one of the most controllable, provided that you have a building management system (BMS) and can accurately detect and interpret the data.

Schneider Electric and FICO can help you accomplish this task, showing you how to maximize BMS value with Building Analytics.

Read more: https://facility-improvement.com/index.php/2025/08/25/fico-and-schneider-electric-save-energy-with-building-analytics/

Maintaining a building management system means you’re likely familiar with the total building shutdown, wherein all syst...
07/10/2025

Maintaining a building management system means you’re likely familiar with the total building shutdown, wherein all systems are shut down for maintenance for several days, usually over a weekend. Some repairs, improvements, and upgrades can be best accomplished during a shutdown. For many facility management teams, a building shutdown is a regular part of their building maintenance program.

Regardless of your goals, a shutdown is a significant undertaking and fraught with the possibility of difficulties. You can, however, ensure a smooth shutdown if you adhere to some simple tips.

https://facility-improvement.com/index.php/2025/07/10/twelve-tips-for-ensuring-success-for-your-total-building-shutdown/

Summer is already here for much of the country. The hotter weather presents one of the most critical challenges to your ...
06/09/2025

Summer is already here for much of the country. The hotter weather presents one of the most critical challenges to your building management system (BMS). Components must work extra hard to maintain comfortable temperatures.

We all know the result of less-than-optimal building environments. Employees are uncomfortable and less productive. Heat, however, is much harder for most people to deal with. If the building is too chilly, they can wear a sweater or other warmer clothes, but workers have fewer options when it is too warm. Clients and customers are also affected and less likely to want to visit your office, campus, or facility.

Read on to learn summer tips for your BMS.

https://facility-improvement.com/index.php/2025/06/09/nine-summer-tips-for-fine-tuning-bms/

New Product Alert!!FICO, a leader in facility security and building management systems, has a new addition to its commer...
05/20/2025

New Product Alert!!

FICO, a leader in facility security and building management systems, has a new addition to its commercial security offerings: the XSponse line of monitors, technology, and accessories designed to provide complete security for schools, hospitals, and commercial businesses of all types.

“XSponse is one of the most innovative security companies we’ve seen,” says FICO’s security strategy consultant, Gary Marrone. “The product and technology answer the urgent needs of schools, but we see applications in hospitals and other businesses.”

Read on to learn more about XSponse and how FICO can help!
https://facility-improvement.com/index.php/2025/05/19/fico-adds-powerful-new-system-to-security-offerings/

We love it when we can help local schools!Earlier this year, the experts at FICO helped complete a major BMS upgrade of ...
01/28/2025

We love it when we can help local schools!

Earlier this year, the experts at FICO helped complete a major BMS upgrade of the HVAC System for Havre Public Schools in Havre, Montana.

Providing quality ventilation, climate control, and building management systems (BMS) in classrooms is serious work that is vital to schools’ operations. Fresh air ensures students remain alert and ready to learn. Frequent air exchanges also provide excellent protection against infectious diseases. Well-implemented BMS systems can also help school districts save as much as 30% on energy costs through the efficient operation of mechanical equipment.

Read the full case study: https://facility-improvement.com/index.php/2025/01/14/fico-case-study-havre-public-schools/

We wish you and your family a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
12/24/2024

We wish you and your family a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

FICO has 8 employees who have served in the U.S. Military. We thank you for your service to our country.
11/11/2024

FICO has 8 employees who have served in the U.S. Military. We thank you for your service to our country.

A building management system governing the distribution of electricity and controlling HVAC in your building saves money...
11/05/2024

A building management system governing the distribution of electricity and controlling HVAC in your building saves money. There’s no question about that. However, facility managers can reduce those utility cost savings even more if they understand how their electrical utility determines the charges for the coming year for the electricity to power their building, especially if that utility charges by using ratchet demand.

Many energy utilities, especially those in large cities and regions experiencing higher-than-average growth in the business and industrial communities, use a demand response program referred to as ratchet demand. Ratchet demand can cause you to pay more for your electricity than your business or building actually consumes, and steep penalties from the utility if you exceed your predicted demand. However, by properly applying the tools in their building management system and focusing on energy efficiency in buildings, facilities managers and owners can limit those charges, thus containing the cost of their electricity and, in many cases, lowering it.

We’ll show you how.

What’s inside this blog post:
- What is ratchet demand?
- BMS can help control ratchet demand charges.
- Ratch demand billing is not your enemy.
- FICO: Experts on building management systems.

https://facility-improvement.com/index.php/2024/11/05/make-bms-part-of-your-ratchet-demand-reduction-strategy/

One of the pandemic’s many holdovers was its negative effect on the commercial real estate market in the US. The Great R...
10/21/2024

One of the pandemic’s many holdovers was its negative effect on the commercial real estate market in the US. The Great Resignation, coupled with the number of businesses that have either adopted a hybrid work environment or allowed many employees to work from home, has created smaller real estate footprints for many companies and lower occupancy rates in many office buildings. Moody’s reported an office vacancy rate of 19.8% in Q1 2024. Moody’s predicts vacancy rates will reach 24% by 2026.

How can owners of existing and future projects combat this declining occupancy trend? How can they see higher occupancy and lease values in their inventory? How can they make their buildings more attractive in the eyes of tenants, increase tenant satisfaction, and present a more desirable workplace for employees who don’t always have to be in the office?

At least one of the answers is simple: incorporate a building management system into your next building or space. It makes a difference.

What’s inside this blog post:

- A clarification of terms
- A look at the numbers.
- Tenants pay lower utility rates.
- BMS means happy employees.
- Energy-efficient buildings help tenants attract new employees
- Owners benefit from BMS in other ways
- Consult the experts—call FICO.

https://facility-improvement.com/index.php/2024/10/21/building-management-systems-give-an-advantage-to-commercial-real-estate-projects/

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