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Space Planning and Management
Space is a vital business resource.  This is true whether we are talking about headquarters facilities of global businesses, laboratories where experimentation is vital to the success of the biotech firm, nuclear facilities producing energy for a region of the country, retail stores, manufacturing companies, hotels, hospitals.  They all need space to conduct their business. It is therefore critical for a facility management organization to be able to understand the cost, amount, quality, environmental effectiveness and utilization of all of their space in a real estate portfolio, either in a building, on a campus or on sites scattered around the world.  

CenterStone was created for the spatial planning and management of real estate and is the number one solution provider in this arena.  With CenterStone’s Space Planning and Management module, facility leaders can produce up-to-date information to answer boardroom and shareholder concerns about cost controls, regulatory compliance and the effect of facilities on earnings per share.

That is why some of the world’s largest corporations-market leaders like Bank of America, Dell, EMC, AIG, Merck and sanofi-aventis rely on CenterStone’s integrated , Web-based solutions to manage their space portfolios, from the global portfolio to the individual workspace.  

With visual, interactive, configurable formatting, updating and reporting, CenterStone allows you to measure space efficiency and quickly identify vacant and underutilized space which can be used for consolidation opportunities or on-boarding a new employee. CenterStone comes with over 100 preformatted reports created for understanding business unit allocation, lease obligations, BOMA measurements, deployment and tracking of assets  and work orders.  Web-based access to information lets you benchmark facility performance, drill down on space consumption, determine the total cost of occupancy and compare the supply of space with the business’ demands in the future.

Space Planning and Management allows you to:

  • Relate space information to personnel, assets and business units for allocation, chargeback, security and strategic planning purposes
  • Gain an immediate, accurate, actionable view of any critical facility information to allow for faster, more informed decision making
  • Interface with a computer-aided design (CAD) system and associate space, personnel, asset, EHS data with floor plans and easily update this data with no CAD training
  • Allocate space efficiently and provide reporting on consumption and provide optimal utilization
  • Map space supply (including location, amount, condition, utilization, function, attributes and associated assets) with space demand (what type and amount of space an organization may need in the future
  • Work closely with business units to anticipate changes and determine any “stealth growth” that might be happening in the organization (i.e., contractors added to a business unit who just appear one day for work)
  • Easily collaborate with 3rd party vendors such as interior designers, architects, move management companies and furniture vendors through full compatibility with other CAD systems
  • Increase accessibility and security of workplace information to reduce overall costs and plan disaster recovery
  • Increase agility to respond to any changes in the workplace

CenterStone Space Management Module (PDF: 932.81 KB)