Your heat dies tonight. What's the plan?

The plan starts with one list: what you own, where, and what condition it's in.

5 hrs ago • Jon Weiskopf, PE

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Is your building running on luck?

Here's what it should run on instead.

Nov 5

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October 2026

Your property manager runs the business. Who plans the big bills?

The repairs get done, but the plan for the next ten years often belongs to nobody.

Oct 29 • Jon Weiskopf, PE

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The Screen Is Not a Sensor

Twenty years reading buildings, and a PE licence in four states.

Oct 27 • Jon Weiskopf, PE

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Everything was engineered except one part

By the time somebody cuts a machine in half, the arguing is over.

Oct 22 • Jon Weiskopf, PE

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How to Find Something That Never Comes Outside

There is an insect that lives in the dirt under buildings and eats wood.

Oct 20 • Jon Weiskopf, PE

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They replaced the one part that worked

A two-inch pipe with under an inch of opening left, and every person in the room was standing around the pump.

Oct 15 • Jon Weiskopf, PE

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Radon, and Why Your Building Pulls It In

Radon is a radioactive gas that comes out of ordinary soil.

Oct 13 • Jon Weiskopf, PE

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The number your whole budget rests on

Every facilities meeting in America quotes a four-to-one rule, and the man it is credited to published one-to-one.

Oct 8 • Jon Weiskopf, PE

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How to Read a Water Stain

There is water coming through the ceiling of my own unit right now.

Oct 6 • Jon Weiskopf, PE

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Nothing was broken. That was the problem.

A tower in New York spent a whole summer hauling heat indoors on purpose, and every screen in the building read normal the entire time.

Oct 1 • Jon Weiskopf, PE

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September 2026

Why the cheap fixes are the ones that get skipped

I grabbed a handrail on a balcony walkthrough, and it moved.

Sep 29 • Jon Weiskopf, PE

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