If your maintenance team spends most of its time putting out fires, you’re not alone. In a recent webinar, a facilities and asset management expert broke down why so many organizations stay stuck in reactive mode — and what it actually takes to move toward a smarter, sensor-driven approach to maintenance. The Real Cost of…
Every local government agency, regardless of size, is responsible for managing a portfolio of public assets that took decades to build and will take just as long to replace. Roads, water systems, buildings, fleet vehicles, parks — the list is long, the dollar value is enormous, and the resources available to manage it are almost…
Ask a parks director what makes their asset management challenge different from, say, a facilities manager’s, and the answer usually comes down to geography. A building’s assets sit inside a footprint you can walk in a few minutes. A parks system’s assets (trails, athletic fields, playgrounds, park lighting, signage) are spread across dozens of sites…
Parks and recreation teams are under more pressure than ever: rising maintenance costs, aging infrastructure, tight staffing and budgets, and community expectations that keep climbing. It’s easy to feel like problems are piling up randomly, one emergency after another. But the challenges most parks teams face aren’t random at all. They’re patterns — and the…
Every municipality — whether it serves 10,000 residents or 500,000 — is responsible for an enormous portfolio of physical assets. Roads, water mains, sewer lines, stormwater systems, bridges, sidewalks, traffic signals, buildings, parks, playgrounds, fleet vehicles, and the equipment used to maintain all of it. These assets represent decades of public investment, and they’re the…
This year, we launched something new: Code Jam, a dedicated week where our engineering teams step away from the regular release cycle to chase real customer problems and build something worth shipping. It’s the first year we’ve run it, and it went well enough that it’s here to stay: expect Code Jam to become an…
If you’ve spent any time researching asset management or maintenance management software, you’ve almost certainly come across two acronyms: EAM and CMMS. They show up in the same product comparisons, the same buyer’s guides, and sometimes even the same product descriptions — which is why so many organizations struggle to understand the difference between them….
Roads, bridges, water mains, stormwater systems, traffic signals, sidewalks, retaining walls — the infrastructure that communities depend on every day represents an enormous investment of public resources. For the agencies responsible for maintaining it, the challenge isn’t just keeping things in working condition today. It’s making smart decisions about where to invest limited dollars to…
Managing public infrastructure has never been a simple proposition. Assets age on their own schedule, budgets don’t always follow, and the list of legitimate priorities competing for limited capital dollars is never short. In that environment, some maintenance gets deferred — not because leaders aren’t paying attention, but because trade-offs are unavoidable and something always…
Public works has never been a flashy industry. It’s the work that keeps communities functioning — maintaining roads, managing water systems, caring for parks, servicing buildings, and responding to the infrastructure problems that residents encounter every day. The work is essential, often thankless, and for decades it was managed with paper, spreadsheets, and institutional knowledge…
