ARCHIBUS TEAMS Makes Buildings Magazine Top 100
 BOSTON,
MA, Jun 5, 2009 - ARCHIBUS, Inc., the #1 software developer worldwide
of real estate, infrastructure and facilities management solutions, announces
that its TEAMS environmental software suite has been chosen as one of Buildings
magazine’s Top 100 Products/Services for 2009, an annual review that will be
featured in its June issue.
Thousands of products were reviewed by the publication’s editorial staff,
after which an elite group of 100 products and services was selected based
upon a number of factors.
TEAMS demo: click here.
 Developed
and supported by the ARCHIBUS Solution Center — Environment + Sustainability
Services (ASC-E+SS), the TEAMS comprehensive suite of environmental
applications also integrates with geographic information system (GIS)
applications from leading geospatial software developer ESRI.
The result is an advanced environmental technology platform that also
provides invaluable geospatial context for tracking and managing building
data, hazardous materials inventories/procedures, waste streams,
sustainability projects and more.
“The combination of TEAMS with other ARCHIBUS real estate, infrastructure
and facilities management solutions gives users the ability to dramatically
increase ROI through cost-effective asset management,” emphasizes Joe Kolmer,
COO of ASC-E+SS. “It also provides proactive and strategic approaches for
compliance with regulatory requirements.”
TEAMS Comprehensive Application Suite
The TEAMS family of environmental applications consists of:
- Compliance & Financial Management: For consolidating Environmental
Health & Safety (EHS) programs and tracking permits, orders, corporate
initiatives; includes calendar with e-mail notifications
- Material Data Safety Sheet (MSDS) Management: Web-based MSDS
inventory; search by location or chemical manufacturers
- Green Building: Tracks and documents progress toward LEED
certification and Green Rating projects, as well as carbon footprint
metrics
- Environmental Health & Safety (EHS): Collects information on
training, incident reporting, as well as medical monitoring
- Waste Management: Manages any wastes/discarded materials; recycling;
tracks storage, transportation, and final disposition/storage
- Clean Building: Manages asbestos, lead-based paint, and other
hazardous materials
- Environmental Monitoring: Consolidates monitoring data, manages data
for any media, compares data to standards, plots and reviews trends
NASA, Duquesne Light Company among TEAMS Users
A field-tested and proven solution, the TEAMS MSDS Management application
is a key component of the ARCHIBUS-based First Responder system at NASA’s
Goddard Space Flight Center. MSDS Management tracks the location and
contents of Goddard’s toxic chemical inventories on its 1,200-acre campus.
Accessible over the campus wireless network, the chemical materials
information is easily accessed by first responders to inform appropriate
procedures during spills or fires.
“TEAMS provided an easy-to-use method of accessing our data, while
integrating with our existing systems to save labor,” reports Gary A. Craig,
a Programmer/Analyst at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
Pittsburgh-based Duquesne Light Company (DLC) has also deployed TEAMS
Compliance, Monitoring MSDS, and Waste Management applications to support
300 environmental compliance programs at 190 operating and closed facilities
in its service area. Compliance issues included management of underground
storage tanks, monitoring and maintenance of legacy disposal facilities,
permits, tracking waste shipments, distribution of MSDS materials and other
tasks.
“We were able to downsize and still actually improve our record-keeping,”
says Edward Kappler, former Manager of Environmental and Real Estate
Projects at Duquesne Light Company.
TEAMS has helped DLC replace a much more costly service for managing MSDS
data; reduced duplication of effort by allowing everyone to tap into a
central database; and improved efficiency of operations. Overall, TEAMS has
allowed DLC to better manage its environmental responsibilities with fewer
resources and at lower cost.
“With TEAMS,” observes ARCHIBUS President and founder Bruce K. Forbes,
“organizations gain enhanced decision-making capabilities that reduce risk
by providing ready access to consistent and credible environmental data.”
About ARCHIBUS
ARCHIBUS is the #1 global provider of real estate, infrastructure, and
facilities management solutions and services with expenditures for
ARCHIBUS-related products and services exceeding $1.7 Billion (USD). With
ARCHIBUS, organizations of all sizes and their outsourcing partners can use
a single, comprehensive, integrated solution to make informed strategic
decisions that optimize return-on-investment, lower asset lifecycle costs,
and increase enterprise-wide productivity and profitability.
More than 4,000,000 ARCHIBUS users collectively manage over 5,000,000
properties, with organizations reporting facilities-related cost savings as
high as 34%. With over 1,600 ARCHIBUS Business Partners, local and regional
support worldwide is available in over 130 countries and in over two dozen
languages. Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, ARCHIBUS, Inc. has
pioneered real estate, infrastructure and facilities management software
technologies since 1982 - when it developed the world’s first integrated
CAFM (computer-aided facilities management) system.
For more information, visit
www.archibus.com.
About ARCHIBUS Solution Centers
ARCHIBUS Solution Centers is an elite, worldwide network of highly
qualified facilities management, information technology, and business
consultants providing ARCHIBUS products, training, and consulting expertise
to a wide variety of industries seeking greater productivity and
profitability. The ARCHIBUS Solution Centers program now includes Centers in
Spain, Germany, South Africa, Australia, Korea, and Romania, as well as
U.S.-based ARCHIBUS Solution Centers-Research Triangle and ARCHIBUS Solution
Center — Environmental + Sustainability Services.
For more information, visit
www.archibus.com/comp/solutioncenters.cfm.
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