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What does “best practice” facility management actually look like—and why does it rarely match reality? In this podcast, Josh Lowe and Nic Guedenet tackle the gap between the FM lifecycle as it’s taught in textbooks and how it actually plays out on the ground.Join us for candid discussions about how emerging technologies and smarter practices can help bridge the gap between FM theory and FM reality—before it’s too late.
AkitaBox hosts Facilities Unfiltered - The Built Reality, a technology show with 27 episodes published.
FM software has been around a lot longer than most of us think—nearly 60 years—starting with preventive maintenance schedules on mainframes and punch cards. In this episode, Josh and Nic trace the surprising evolution fr
Facility Condition Assessments (FCAs) can be the difference between clear, fact-based capital planning—and endless “political harangues” over who gets what. In Episode 27, Josh and Nic sit down with architect and FCA/PCA
Why do so many Facility Condition Assessments (FCAs) miss the mark—before anyone even steps on site? In Episode 26 of Facilities Unfiltered, Josh and Nic sit down with Shay Rankhorn (Partner at Facility Diagnostics, form
In celebration of our 25th episode, we're going back to one of our most popular episodes "The Value Engineering Hangover." We'll be back with a new episode next week! Chapters (00:00:00) - The VE Hangover (00:00:33) - Fa
Facilities teams often lose budget battles because the message is too complicated. In Episode 24 of Facilities Unfiltered, Josh and Nic make the case for keeping facility condition assessments and capital planning “first
Josh and Nic tackle the elephant in the room for both building owners and AEC firms: the traditional FCA deliverable report is eating up engineering hours, killing profitability, and producing a product that goes stale t
Grounds work is getting harder to staff—and the riskiest areas (steep slopes, roadside embankments, fire-abatement hillsides) are often the toughest to maintain safely. In Episode 22, Josh and Nic sit down with Neil Simo
Food service is more than menus and meal counts—it’s a massive, fast-moving operation that lives and dies by the facilities behind it. In this episode, Josh and Nic sit down with Thomas Arganda, Director of Child Nutriti
What does a truly useful facility condition assessment actually look like? In this episode, Josh and Nic sit down with John Hajduk, VP of Support Services at Geisinger Health System, to dig into a topic that trips up bot
HVAC touches every corner of facilities management, and in this episode of Facilities Unfiltered, Josh and Nic sit down with Richard Boothman (Sales Director at Modine) to get practical about what actually matters in the
What's the number one thing every facility manager should know? Josh and Nic went digging — through AI, Google, articles, job postings — and the answer was so obvious it actually caught them off guard. It wasn't PM strat
Fire life safety can feel like a “set it and forget it” line item—until a panel dies, an inspector interprets code to the letter, or a proprietary system leaves you stuck on fire watch with no fast (or cheap) options. In
We've all been there: the 2 a.m. call, the overheating server room, the frantic scramble to save the day. In facility management, being the hero feels good — but what if that hero complex is actually holding your facilit
Facilities teams everywhere are approaching “the staffing cliff", and it’s not just about hiring more people. In Episode 15, Josh and Nic unpack why staffing shortages, turnover, and an aging workforce are colliding with
Six years after COVID was declared a national emergency, Josh Lowe and Nic Guedenet look back on how the pandemic reshaped facilities management—overnight. From the split reality of “essential worker” life versus remote
In the finale of our AI Across the Lifecycle series, Josh and Nic sit down with AkitaBox product expert Dan Cooper to cut through the noise around “AI-enabled” facility management software. With AI suddenly everywhere—fr
Capital planning has always asked facilities teams to “predict the future” with tools that weren’t built to be maintained—binders, spreadsheets, PDFs, and one-time assessments that quickly go stale. In this installment o
In this AI Across the Lifecycle Series installment, Josh Lowe and Nic Guedenet unpack where AI can genuinely help PM teams right now: accelerating calendar-based schedules by pulling from trusted sources like manufacture
AI promises to help facilities teams do more with less—but only if the foundation is solid. In this second episode of the AI Across the Lifecycle series, Josh and Nic sit down with AkitaBox Director of Product Geoff Baro
AI is everywhere in facility management right now—but hype doesn’t equal reality. In the kickoff of our “AI Across the Lifecycle” series, Josh Lowe and Nic Guedenet cut through the buzzwords to talk about what AI can’t d
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