Serving Clients / Asset, Property and Facility Managers

We work exceptionally well with asset, property and facility managers because we understand their day-to-day pressures. Our jobs are much like theirs – attendant to the slightest detail, management of large and expensive systems, responsible for substantial sums of money, and answerable to demanding overseers. Like us, asset, property and facilities managers must assume the role of owner – they administer a property with a firm view of the vision that has been laid out for the asset. As in all of our other practice realms, we are constantly mindful of the Real Estate Life Cycle that the property is in – this deeply informs all of the work we do in collaboration with the asset, property and facility managers.

Understanding Different Roles

Property and facility managers tend to be day-to-day managers of a property and keep it running smoothly such that tenants and users are comfortable and accommodated. By contrast, asset managers must step back and take a longer term view as to the real estate life cycle and establish and execute a long-term vision for the property.

Understanding Different Roles

Asset, property and facility managers are accountable to owners. In turn, Owners and Investors of commercial real estate, for example, are under tremendous pressure to provide returns, be they REITs, pension funds, insurance companies or other investors who are accountable to clients expecting results. REITs, for example, must deliver high returns and are accountable to public shareholders. Pension funds are also held to account, but more on a level of delivering long-term returns for plan participants.

As in our other client groups, we always take on the Owner’s Mindset and the Engineers Skillset. Our combination of technical and financial expertise is unique in the engineering industry.