Enjoying the warm summer weather but dreading your next utility bill? It’s not too late to take control of your building’s energy consumption and minimize the pain of summer prices.
Keep reading to find out some of the best (and often unexpected!) practices from top commercial real estate professionals to help successfully manage your building through the dog days of summer.
Read MoreIce and vending machines are about as indispensable to hotels as sheets and towels – a basic amenity and one of the most standard conveniences for ensuring guest comfort. Yet they’re also major contributors to hospitality energy costs. According to MACH Energy’s 2016 Hotel Industry Survey: Energy and Water Management Best Practices, reducing these types of cost burdens are the highest energy priority for 93 percent of hotel operators. Learn how to put the chill on these energy wasters.
Read MoreIf you’re like most of our customers, you’re probably facing the dreaded budget deadlines for 2017. Chances are, you’re spending too much time collecting data, plugging the numbers into Excel sheets, averaging out the bills from the past three years, and hoping that the results will be close enough.
At MACH, we know all too well the frustrations of energy budgeting, and we want to make your job easier. With our smart forecasting analytics and our industry expertise, MACH’s software can simplify your energy budget reporting, and more.
Read MoreToday, we will continue the discussion of MACH’s design philosophy and delve deeper into how we incorporate customer feedbacks into our design concepts, and translate them into actionable features that make your job easier.
Read MoreMACH’s Energy Management Software (EMS) is designed for YOU, and we pride ourselves on our customer-centered values. This spring, we asked Brian Glynn, MACH’s SVP of Product Management to share with our audience the thought process behind MACH’s design philosophy: the intuitive EMS design that saves time, money, and energy.
Read MoreOakland, CA, June 15, 2016 – In the inaugural NREI (National Real Estate Investor) & IMN (Information Management Network) 2016 Commercial Real Estate Awards, MACH Energy was chosen as one of the top three finalists in the award category of “Innovation: Facilities and Property Management”. With smart energy and water analytics, as well as cutting-edge tenant-billing capabilities and automatic budget generation and forecasting, MACH’s software platform is simple, easy to use, and delivers savings on both time and money for our users.
See all the finalists here.
About MACH
MACH Energy is a leading cloud-based and mobile provider of CRETech energy and water management solutions for commercial real estate property managers, operators, engineers, and owners. With some of the nation’s most iconic buildings under management, MACH counts hundreds of commercial, REIT, hotel and corporate building owners as customers encompassing hundreds of millions of square feet of properties across the country.
The MACH Team welcomes Joseph (Joe) Nugent as Vice President of Business Development. Formerly the VP of Business Development at Genea and a senior sales representative at CoStar Group, Inc., Joe is ready to immediately broaden our already extensive list of industry-leading commercial real estate (CRE) relationships, and to drive MACH’s product impact to help building teams to distinguish themselves in this rapidly evolving industry.
Read MoreThe MACH Team recently gathered in Chicago from all over the country for our bi-annual team meeting in Chicago. We started out with an architectural boat tour of the amazing city, after which we sampled great food and conversation by the river. What could be better than the three 'B's--Boats, Beers, and Buildings?
Read MoreOur Hotel Survey gift card award goes to Mr. Ghassan Sader, congratulations!
Gus (Ghassan) Sader is President and CEO of Sader Hospitality Worldwide. A published international hospitality expert who has received numerous top hospitality awards, Mr. Sader specializes in financial review, receivership, and asset turnaround for hotels, resorts, and restaurants. With over 45 years experience in hospitality management, Mr. Sader previously worked in seven countries for hotel groups such as Hilton, Hyatt Regency and Omni Hotels. A graduate of the prestigious Institut International de Glion of Montreux, Switzerland, Mr. Gus also completed the Professional Development Program "PDP" on a scholarship at Cornell University School of Hotel Administration.
Submeters are the key to an energy management systems (EMS). These small, easily-installed sensors provide detailed information about a building’s energy performance, area by area. EMS platforms like MACH can automate tenant billing based on the data retrieved from submeters. Like many features of EMS, the submeter-enabled tenant billing mechanism is an asset to owners and landlords as well as tenants. Here’s why:
Read MoreMobile application for iPhone/iPad enables real-time, paperless meter logging
OAKLAND, CA, April 19, 2016 – MACH Energy, a leading provider of commercial real estate (CRE) energy monitoring and management software services and solutions, announced today the availability of the MACH Energy tenant billing mobile application. This extension of MACH’s tenant billing platform makes building teams’ jobs easier by solving the time-consuming and error-prone task of manual tenant billing and sub-meter data collection for commercial property managers and engineers. Please register here to join our webinar on Thursday, April 21 at 11:30 a.m. Pacific / 2:30 p.m. Eastern to learn how tenant billing and bill back services are saving commercial property executives time and money.
MACH Energy for iPhone and iPad makes it easy to keep track of building energy use and operating conditions for busy operations professionals. Its simple, on-the-go interface drastically reduces the time burden and data-entry errors associated with manual clipboard-based meter monitoring. In addition, the app enables a streamlined and paperless workflow that functions in tandem with MACH’s comprehensive building energy management system (EMS) for CRETech and property management professionals.
“Manual collection of sub-meter information and data used to be a long, tedious process for building managers and engineers, and often resulted in costly and time-consuming errors,” said Jon Moeller, CEO of MACH Energy. “Our Tenant billing solution works with both communicating and non-communicating meters, streamlining the process and bringing meter data collection and energy management into the mobile era.”
Available for download to subscribers of the MACH Energy service here, benefits of the Tenant Billing solution for both desktop and mobile include:
About MACH Energy
MACH Energy Inc. is a leading provider of CRETech energy management solutions for commercial real estate property managers, operators, engineers, and owners. With some of the nation’s most iconic buildings under management, MACH counts hundreds of commercial, REIT, hotel and corporate building owners as customers encompassing hundreds of millions of square feet of properties across the country.
Water seems to be on everyone’s mind recently, especially when it comes to conservation strategies in drought-afflicted states like California. Yet the monitoring of water is just beginning to be a topic of discussion in the CRETech space. Typically, water is a less significant cost for buildings than other utilities such as electricity and gas. So for a long time,property management teams have not prioritized monitoring water consumption. However, the tide is now turning as building owners anticipate possible new water mandates and realize the savings’ potential in monitoring property water usage.
Read MoreWhether you own or lease a building, you typically need lighting, heating, air conditioning, power for equipment and assets, and other services to keep your business afloat and operational. Energy can vary in cost when it comes to the type of infrastructure you have and how you operate on the day to day. Let’s take a look at a hotel cost break down.
Read MoreOn Feb. 24th, we hosted a webinar featuring Mike Zatz from ENERGY STAR EPA, Sara Neff from Kilroy Realty Corporation and Barry Hooper from the City of San Francisco, where they discussed ENERGY STAR Changes, City Benchmarking and the Human Factor in Energy Management.
We’ve made available the slides, recording, as well as Q&A for download.
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