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3 Technologies Keeping People Safer in CRE Buildings


From the beginning of time, man’s earliest ancestors built structures designed to keep themselves safe from all sorts of elements and conditions. 

 While those elements have certainly changed over the years, fortunately, there are still a number of ways that you can help to keep your building — and its occupants — safer.

Today, technology is being used in all stages and phases of the commercial real estate industry, to help keep people safer and healthier. Let’s take a closer look at 3 of the ways that technology is being used to make commercial real estate safer.

Wearable technology

Commercial real estate construction can be a dangerous industry. All commercial construction workers have heard of the “Fatal Four,” or falls, struck-bys, electrocution, and caught in-betweens — all of which are major causes for concern in the industry. As a result, Human Condition Safety has created a unique line of construction wearables including safety vests and hard hats with built-in sensors, GPS, real-time locating, and more. What’s more, the equipment can be charged simply using solar and kinetic energy.

This line of smart personal protective equipment (PPE) can serve to keep its wearers safe, sensing if particulates in the air become toxic and serving as an airbag in case of a dangerous fall or a location device if someone happens to go missing. 

 Peter E. Raymond, CEO of Human Condition Safety, has been quoted as saying “We built Human Condition Safety to really help the serious issue of construction workers being injured and killed on job sites. It just feels like such an old problem that needs to be addressed, and we’re aiming, by 2025, to eliminate deaths on job sites globally.”

Mobile technology

It comes as no surprise that safety has become a huge application of mobile technology. Today, smartphones and mobile apps have made it infinitely easier to communicate and collaborate with your team remotely and in real time. Being able to communicate in this way helps to ensure that any issues get resolved quickly and effectively — and that every stakeholder has a say in the decision.

What’s more, there are a number of apps that have been designed especially for the commercial real estate sector, helping to quickly disseminate important information in the unfortunate event of a natural disaster or some other kind of emergency (e.g., active shooter, a structure fire, etc). By connecting these types of platforms to smartphones, owned by nearly 80% of the US adult population, technology can play a huge role in helping to keep the occupants of your building safer.

Drones

Drones are another type of technology used throughout commercial real estate, especially at construction sites to help inspect the area and look for hazards, and also monitor the workers and their progress. However, a newer application is coming forward for drones — assisting in the safety department of commercial buildings to help make sure that employees are safe.

Jason Galoozis, Safety Director of F.E. Moran, explains how his team is putting this type of technology to work: “Drones can help eliminate the need for company employees or the safety team to conduct high-risk pre-project start inspections on elevated surfaces. These elevated surfaces could be older or abandoned structures — which could pose serious hazards to our employees.”


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