Go Green: Keeping your Warehouse/Distribution Center in Efficient Condition

Posted on February 22, 2012 by admin

Warehouses are facilities that store products – so why should they require much energy? Step inside a distribution center and you’ll find that things are usually on the move. Large spaces with frequent entry/exit, sophisticated equipment, and continuous operations rack up high utility bills.

Warehouse/Distribution center operators can pursue energy and sustainability initiatives in numerous fashions:

  • Use improved lighting and HVAC technologies to reduce energy consumption
  • Minimize unconditioned air entering, or conditioned air exiting the building
  • Maximize conveyor system operations
  • Optimize battery charging stations     

     

Find out more information at www.fischergreen.com to see how you can save money on your warehouse or any other facility.

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Step One to GO Green: Saving Power Consumption

Posted on February 10, 2012 by admin

To maintain top of the line sustainability for your company’s buildings, you must make the initial step of executing Energy Audits. Energy Audits are the first step to targeting operating expense savings and increasing net operation income.

Fischer’s alliance with GreenPoint Partners achieves Better Audits, getting Better Results.

Experience – Audited millions of Square     footage across hundreds of commercial buildings

Unbiased – Not a representative of a product, manufactuer, or utility

Comprehensive – Audits include efficiency, renewable energy, water, waste

Actionable - Present findings in thorough financial terms from start-to-finish

 

Learn more about how you can lower operating expenses, capture incentives, and increase employee productivity. Go to www.fischergreen.com or email us at info@fischercompany.com

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Go Green: Property Life Cycle

Posted on February 8, 2012 by admin

Fischer & Company has learned to adapt to the economic change in real estate. We will create a path of sustainability to fit your property. Sustainability services are available for all property types but with each situational facility, we have determined the needs of each to follow a similar and standard course:

Analyze Your Properties

  • Have an initial assessment            
  • Benchmark your property
  • Get an energy audit

Reduce Energy Consumption

  • Make operational improvements
  • Perform efficiency retrofits

Generate Renewable Energy

  • Install solar, wind, or geothermal
  • Applicable to specific properties in select geographic markets

Get Financing and Incentives

  • Secure funding for capital projects
  • Capture financial incentives

Report Success

  • Get LEED and ENERGY STAR certified
  • Monitor and verify energy savings

For more information go to www.fischergreen.com or http://www.fischercompany.com.

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Go Green: Fischer teaming up with GreenPoint Partners

Posted on January 30, 2012 by admin

Fischer & Company has chosen GreenPoint Partners as their alliance for energy and sustatinability services.  For 2012, Fischer has taken sustainability to the next level. The alliance will gain the necessary knowledge and provide solutions to environmental stewardship.

We have divisional property solutions to better serve each type of facility -

We will be able to provide turnkey energy efficiency solutions from the initial assessment to monitoring and verifying each facility with:

  • Energy Trends
  • Solar & Renewables
  • Building Certification
  • Finance & Incentives                                                                                                                                               

Go Green and improve energy efficiency for your buildings;                                               Contact a FischerGreen Representative today.

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Go Green: Introducing GreenPoint Partners

Posted on January 25, 2012 by admin

“The Real Estate industry has to take necessary measures of understanding the basic costs and benefits to uphold the dynamic growth of cities and property owners. Corporate tenants have laid the groundwork for growth and success.”                                                                                                        –Representative of Green Point 

GreenPoint is an energy management company who offers consulting services to commercial real estate owners and users. They help properties profit from energy efficiency, renewable energy, and sustainable real estate operations by:

  • Identifying Operations
  • Quantifying Resources
  •  Executing Initiatives

Additionally, they assist clients to strengthen their brands by demonstrating environmental leadership. Fischer & Company looks forward to the relationship with GreenPoint; it will better serve its clients.

Click on GreenPoint for more information on how you can benefit from their services.

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Escalation Management Module Blog Series: Monthly Performance

Posted on January 20, 2012 by admin

What is it?

The Monthly Escalation Performance screen for desktop audits is designed to capture performance measurements that are used to gauge efficiency. 

Benefits:

  • Provides insight into areas of strength and potential opportunities
  • Timely statistics are calculated on a monthly basis
  • Isolated views  of an individual region
  • History captures year-to-year trends and analysis

                                                   (performance is shown in a number of interactive options)

 

To Learn more about the CREDashboard, contact us at www.fischercompany.com or email us at info@fischercompany.com.

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Escalation Management Module Blog Series: Escalation Log

Posted on January 18, 2012 by admin

What is it?

The Escalation Log is to record key measurements resulting from the escalation validation process and to ensure expense reconciliation documents for each lease are received from the landlord vendor.

Benefits:

  • Track an escalation package from the time it is received from the landlord through the review and approval of the client
  • Build a report to show which landlords have yet to submit expense reconciliation documents
  • Identify inconsistencies between the billing package and the lease in real-time
  • Data filters drill down specific expense types onto your choice of an interactive map, list or graph view

For more information, visit our website www.fischercompany.com or email us at info@fischercompany.com.

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CREDashboard™ Blog Series: Escalation Management Module: Leasehold Audit Module

Posted on January 16, 2012 by admin

What is it?

 The Leasehold Audit module manages the review and audit process across a real estate portfolio.

Benefits:

  • Providing the ability to filter leases based on their size, rent amounts and escalation increases
  • Identifying an appropriate sample of leases for review and audit
  • Providing a graphic description of audited properties for a given year and tracks progress

Information relating to the lease terms, project details and status updates are displayed by map, chart or list view.  Projects that have not received the required status update in the past 30 days are easily viewed.
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CREDashboard™ Blog Series: Escalation Management Module

Posted on January 11, 2012 by admin

What is the Module?

The Escalation Management Center is a management dashboard that provides a centralized solution for administering the leasehold escalation and audit administration process.

What does it do?

The tool is a single control panel for providing all information relevant to managing the pass-through expenses associated with a lease including documents, approvals, communication, history, disputes and the results of all formal audits and reviews.

 

Why is it important?

  • All information can be seen:                            

                     – Leasehold Audits
                     - Escalation Log
                     – Monthly Performance
                     – Operating & Tax History
                     – Savings History

  • Saving operating and tax expense escalation costs
  • Comprehensive approach to both expense management and business controls

For More Information contact info@fischercompany.com or visit our website www.fischercompany.com

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Banking Module Blog Series: Compare Branches Against Competitors

Posted on December 22, 2011 by admin

Fischer has included a Competitor Benchmarking section in the Banking Module.

Six Graph Executive Summary

It gives the user the ability to select and compare how their portfolio measures up against the competitors they desire.  The user can choose from any of the 6,000+ banks in the United States comprising of over 90,000+ branch locations.

The Six Graph Executive Summary represents the following valuable information on one screen:

  • Number of Branches
  • Number of New Branches
  • Total Deposits
  • Dollar Deposit Growth
  • Percent Deposit Growth
  • Average Deposits per Branch
  • Bank Comparison Rankings

                         - Ranks each bank selected against the group banks options
                         – Choose banks to compare
                         – Choose states and/or markets to compare banks in

  • Select desired time frame (2011 Deposits or 2007-2011 Deposits)
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