Several new "Green Suite" applications are available in this release. These applications focus on sustainable practices, environmental quality management and employee health and safety. In addition, several applications have been significantly enhanced to provide higher levels of support and performance in an enterprise setting.
The following applications comprise this release's Green Suite set of solutions.
This new "Green Suite" application tracks environmental hazards such as asbestos, radon, lead-based paint and mold, and provides scorecards assessments. Additionally, the application catalogs existing conditions and test results, tracks remediation projects and budgets. Use this application, organizations to avoid costly re-tests, delays in renovation, environmental health hazards and potential liability issues.
Help and documentation for this application is located under Environmental & Risk Management / Clean Building. Review the below summary topics to learn more about how Clean Building can be integrated into your ARCHIBUS framework.
This application improves workplace health and safety by providing an audit trail from generation through final disposal for hazardous waste The application documents an organizations' compliance with complex regulations governing these materials and helps you avoid even simple infractions that can cost thousands of dollars in fines.
The application can also track recycling initiatives, measure progress towards corporate benchmarks and use objective measures to identify which business units are not complying with mandated recycling changes.
You'll find help and documentation for this application under Environmental & Risk Management / Waste Management. Review the below summary topics to learn how Waste Management can be integrated into your ARCHIBUS framework.
Labs and industrial facilities routinely handle hundreds of hazardous materials -- from liquid nitrogen to cytoxic compounds. This application helps facility managers orchestrate the update and distribution of safe-handling instructions for these materials, the distribution and access to staff, and the locations of the materials themselves.
You'll find help and documentation for this application under Environmental & Risk Management / MSDS. Review the below summary topics to learn how MSDS can be integrated into your ARCHIBUS framework.
This application helps safety managers to comply with complex procedures and regulations related to health and safety equipment and training. The application also supports safety incident tracking, medical monitoring, and work restrictions.
You'll find help and documentation for this application under Environmental & Risk Management / Environmental Health & Safety (EH&S).Review this summary topic and select the link at the bottom of the topic to learn how EH&S can be integrated into your ARCHIBUS framework.
The following applications contain changes and enhancements to improve flexibility and performance.
The applications in this domain contain extensive enhancements to handle time-based data and to incorporate hoteling, partial occupancy, multiple room occupancy, and moves seamlessly into space planning processes and statistics. The applications integrate with Space Requests, Move Requests, the Service Desk application, and the Move Management application.
The Space applications can use the new workspace transactions or can use the "classic" method just as 19.3 and earlier versions of the software did. To switch between the two, use this task:
Switching between the two will also change the Space Management Process Navigators to assign different views to the default ARCHIBUS roles.
Note that from a licensing perspective, you will need licenses for the Space Inventory & Performance as well as a license for either Enterprise Move Management or Service Desk to make use of the Workplace Transaction features.
For more information, see Workspace Transaction Method vs. Non-Transactional Method.
This application gives commissioning agents and owners' representatives visibility into and control over the commissioning process. It provides deep visibility into the information that design and construction teams hand over for projects. It provides a Web-based repository for design documents, shop drawings, owners' manuals, and acceptance checklists. And it has a structured process for field verification assignments and data collection.
You'll find help and documentation for this application under Capital Project Management /Commissioning. Review this summary topic and select the link at the bottom of the topic to learn how Commissioning can be integrated into your ARCHIBUS framework.