The HeatTrak Industrial Blog

Key Steps Facility Managers Should Take for Emergency Preparedness

Emergency preparedness is a year-long concern for facility managers, but when it comes to natural disasters and other threats to the safety of your building and the people who are in it, winter is ...

Pros and Cons of Outsourcing Commercial Snow Removal

One of the major decisions that facility managers must make every winter is whether to do all commercial snow removal tasks in-house or to outsource the job to a third-party provider. Given the cru...

Commercial Property Insurance: What You Need to be Covered for Winter

Facility maintenance during winter involves a multitude of tiny details along with the major task of snow and ice removal from facility grounds. Yet, one of the ways to protect your company's prop...

The Other Winter Concerns: What to Prepare for Besides Snow and Ice

Dealing with snow and ice removal may be the number one challenge that facility managers face every season, but there are other dangers and concerns that winter brings. Low temperatures, cold rain...

4 Ways to Prepare Your Commercial Snow Removal for A Salt Shortage

When facilities under-prepared for a wintertime rock salt shortage are suddenly faced with an unusually snowy and long-lasting winter, the results can be disastrous. Building access, ADA complianc...

ASCA Industry Standards for Snow and Ice Management

One major tool that facility managers can avail themselves of is the Accredited Snow Contractors Association (ASCA) and their "legal defense mechanism" known as the System Requirements for Snow and...

Why To Have a Snow Removal Equipment Training Day Before Winter Hits

As a facility manager, you understand that winter weather can hit without warning, and that even when the forecasts are accurate, your operations can be halted in the aftermath of a major storm. E...

Power Problems: Electricity Concerns That Facilities Face in Winter

Facility managers may experience electrical problems at anytime throughout the year, but winter brings with it an increase in both the number and severity of power problems. During cold weather, ...

How to Choose a Commercial Snow Removal Contractor

Winter is officially upon us, many parts of the country have already been blanketed in snow, and your facility’s commercial snow removal plan has likely gone into effect already--or else is primed ...

Breaking Down SIMA's Snow and Ice Glossary

There’s one resource that you’ll notice continually popping up in our blog posts and articles--SIMA, the Snow and Ice Management Association. We’ve shared their Key Performance Indicator checklist ...

The Importance of Building Resilience To Your Facility This Winter

During the winter, day-to-day wear and tear and expected seasonal challenges like heavy snowfall on the facility roof or the effects of salt and the freeze/thaw cycle on pavements, certainly do mos...

How to Cut Your Facility's Energy Costs in Winter Without Skimping on the Essentials

Facility managers are well aware of the need to keep energy costs low during winter, which is the most expensive season of the year in terms of energy costs, but they cannot afford to "skimp on the...

Building a Snow-Site Engineering Plan For Your Facility

Snow removal at your facility requires detailed planning to be optimally effective. A "snow-site engineering plan" refers to a plan that maps out in advance where to plow and pile snow, what areas ...

Will Your Ice & Snow Removal Plan Stand Up to Old Man Winter?

Having an effective snow removal plan is a necessity with today’s unpredictable weather. A last-minute storm can have personnel scrambling to clear parking lots, sidewalks, and other areas before t...