Basin Street Properties prepares buildings for tenants to return with help from Gridium's software checklists
COVID-19 has changed commercial building operations and Basin Street has responded, with help from Gridium's software, to adapt protocols and procedures and prepare buildings for tenants' return to work.
PETALUMA, Calif., July 9, 2020 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Gridium announced today that Basin Street Properties, a leader in commercial real estate in the northern regions of both California and Nevada, has prepared all its office buildings for tenants operating in an environment changed by COVID-19. From upgrading air filters to improving systems operations under the guidelines set forth from the CDC and ASHRAE, Basin Street's response to COVID-19 builds from its five decades of experience and its newly launched C.A.R.E.S. Initiative.
Focused on preparing buildings for tenants
"Our C.A.R.E.S. initiative is our strategic response to COVID-19 and defines our approach to managing office space for tenants," said Stephanie Burlingame, Chief Operating Officer at Basin Street Properties. "Gridium's technology makes it easier for our management and engineering teams to quickly turn this new approach into action."
Basin Street's C.A.R.E.S. Initiative was launched to facilitate protocols for the health and wellbeing of its tenants and employees. The initiative focuses on five areas: Clean Hands, Air Systems, Restroom Etiquette, Elevator Protocol, and Safe Distance. The program includes hand sanitizer stations, enhanced cleaning protocols, HVAC maintenance and management with a focus on increased ventilation and mechanical systems inspection and monitoring, encouraging stair access and use, where appropriate, and also social distancing in common areas and shared spaces.
Turning expertise into activity that reboots tenant spaces
"Operating office space during the COVID-19 crisis is a challenge unlike any other for a building engineer and dealing with challenges is one of our core responsibilities. The Basin Street Team has really stepped up and we're proud of what we've accomplished," said Jesse Mancillas, Director of Engineering at Basin Street Properties. "Gridium's system has a significant impact on communication and tracking, providing a consistent and searchable source of documentation. In general, this helps all team members to 'push the ball' in the same direction. As a unit, we turned a daunting task into an organized event."
Basin Street's comprehensive checklist spans 10 categories, from HVAC and Plumbing to Fire/Life Safety, Electrical Systems, General Inspections, the Tenant Space, and PPE use and Indoor Air Quality are monitored as well as regional air quality indices, with additional outside air utilized when appropriate for the local conditions and tenant health.
A 52-point checklist to help deliver best-in-class building operations
"Stephanie, Jesse and their teams at Basin Street have risen to meet this major challenge," said Tim Canavan, Director of Operations at Gridium. "It's impressive to see their engineering expertise as reflected in Gridium, and it is motivating to help reboot and prepare productive offices for their tenants."
While Basin Street's team could have relied on spreadsheets and phone calls, deploying Gridium checklists unified all the communication in one place, saving time and quickening the reboot. With Gridium, responsibility for a given tenant space's checklist can be shared, and individual items on the checklist can be assigned and commented on and, in special cases, turned into an entirely separate request for additional tracking. With custom views, every member of the team has a dashboard on progress and project status.
To learn more about Gridium's workflow checklists, please visit Gridium.com/c19checklists.
About Gridium Inc.
Buildings use Gridium to save energy, finance retrofits, and streamline operations. All told, the company directly serves about 300 million square feet of buildings across the United States, and with Gridium, these buildings save millions of dollars on electricity, gas, and water utility bills, extend the useful lives of their assets, and data-drive their sustainable operations.
About Basin Street Properties
Basin Street Properties, established in Petaluma in 1974, is one of Northern California's and Northern Nevada's most prominent developers, investors and managers of commercial properties. The company owns and manages over 5 million square feet of Class A office space. Basin Street is widely recognized for its office, retail, hospitality, multi-family and mixed-use developments. The company offers a broad range of real estate services, including development, property management, construction management, financial and asset management, and property acquisition and disposition. For more information, visit basin-street.com.
SOURCE Gridium
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