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What do you like best about Building Engines?

Ease of use, and implementation of the software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Building Engines?

On the phone cannot access all the screens, I also do events, and I cannot see it on the mobile app. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Building Engines solving and how is that benefiting you?

Property integration . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Building Engines Overview

What is Building Engines?

Why is Building Engines ranked as a leader in commercial real estate (CRE) for property management software? Building Engines, a JLL company, improves net operating income and performance across the world’s most successful real estate portfolios. Customers increase building efficiency, deliver the best tenant experience, and reduce operating costs with Prism – the industry’s most innovative and powerful property management platform. Founded in 2000, Building Engines is committed to helping CRE companies solve long-standing operational problems with market-leading solutions for work order management, tenant experience, sustainability, risk mitigation, vendor management, and more. Put simply, it’s our mission to create exceptional experiences for everyone in every building. Today, more than 1,000 customers rely on Building Engines to manage critical operational needs across more than 4 billion square feet and 52,000 properties worldwide. Get started fast with a customized product demo today.

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Prism by Building Engines elevates property management with modern, powerful solutions that simplify everything from work orders and inspections to vendor management and energy optimization. Our API-first design integrates with in-house systems to create a seamless, centralized property management experience.


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2000
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Boston, MA
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@buildingengines
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169 employees on LinkedIn®
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Building Engines, a JLL Company, is a leading provider of property management software designed to enhance operational efficiency and tenant experience in commercial real estate. Their platform offers a suite of tools for building management, including maintenance tracking, tenant communication, and reporting analytics. With a focus on streamlining workflows and improving collaboration, Building Engines supports property managers and owners in delivering high-quality service while optimizing building performance. For more information, visit their website at [buildingengines.com](https://www.buildingengines.com).


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4.5 out of 5
"Really like the way it handles when I use it online."
Ease of use, and implementation of the software.
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4.5 out of 5
"great application"
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Building Engines is very user-friendly. I like the simplicity of the website, while it still offers some back-end programming options to customize ...
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Eileen D.
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Property Administrator
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Building Engines?

The most helpful thing about Building Engines is the reporting. The system is able to capture and organize information atuomatically which benefits our departments for billing and audits. I enjoy how easy the software is to use. The tranisition for the tenants on Prism was seemless and we have received great feedback on the change. Our tenants and security department use Prism daily and any issues for users has been successfully troubleshooted by the support team. The support has been such an amazing tool for myself and the tenants. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Building Engines?

The downside to building engines is that there are still some customizations that I would like to see particularly on the billing side. I would like to be able to pick all information that is displayed on invoices.

PM setups i find very intimidating. Our property still has not completed PM setup and i wish it had a more user friendly template to start the process. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Building Engines solving and how is that benefiting you?

Mass Communication was an issue that Building engines was able to solve instantly. The communications board has been a great tool for Amenity Advertisement, Realtor showing notifications, & Building Protocol posts. Being able to pick the audience is great and this year the communications has been a great help with notifying users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Tenant Services Coordinator
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Building Engines?

Building Engines is very user-friendly. I like the simplicity of the website, while it still offers some back-end programming options to customize your experience. There are a lot of user-guides, and support replies quickly to any questions/concerns. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Building Engines?

There are a few minor programming functions that could make the system even better. For example, a notification to Property Management when a tenant uploads a COI. Without this notification, managers need to constantly check each tenant for uploads. With the other notifications on the site, it seems like that could be an easy thing to add. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Building Engines solving and how is that benefiting you?

Tenant's enter maintenance requests, and the appropriate parties are notified immediately. Both tenants and the management team are able to update comments/view status. It's very helpful that way. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Building Engines?

Prism has been a welcome update to the Building Engines system. It's intuitive and user friendly, making training a breeze for new users. Everything we access on a day to day basis from work orders to amenities schedules is all in one place. The auto-assign feature is great because it allows for ease of work order input without having to determine who to send a work order to, which is helpful for shifts that don't have frequent contact with the rest of the building staff. Prism is an integral part of our daily operations and essential for communication across the building team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Building Engines?

Filtering work orders can be tricky. It would be helpful if it were easier to limit results by assignee with multiple completion statuses so that it would omit 'closed' items. If there is a way to do this I haven't been able to figure it out. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Building Engines solving and how is that benefiting you?

Ease of communication across shifts, access management for tenants and vendors, ease of workload assignment Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Assistant Property Manager
Commercial Real Estate
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Building Engines?

I love that I can adjust the notification settings for individual or a group of buildings or members of mgmt. It allows you to notify specific people of work orders, status updates, comments, etc. Additionally, it allows the administrators to streamline many standard business practices within or integrated into 1 platform. Our team has Building Engines open 24/7, and until recently monitored it constantly to assign new work orders. I have since increased our efficiency by setting auto-assign policies for work orders based on the issue type, building, property site, and overall responsibility which has changed our game tremendously! It's also incredibly user friendly across the board, and their team provides training materials to assist with navigating the system and submitting work orders for tenants and team members. Their team is very supportive and engaging with their customers, providing system notifications and opportunities to strengthen skills associated with the system. The system also integrates easily with other systems, such as COI Compliance Tracking through MyCOI, and batch billing in AP systems. Implementing the work order system was smooth and organized, with the ability to import data from existing files, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Building Engines?

It's difficuly to pinpoint a specific attribute I don't like about Building Engines. The only thing I think can be approved upon is the ability to disable a company in the system regardless of the completion status of assosicated work orders. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Building Engines solving and how is that benefiting you?

It can be hard to manage communication & keep track when it occurs across multiple platforms such as email, phone, text message, in person, etc. Building Engines has created a platform that allows tenants to communicate a variety of things through work order submission, which tracks the progress of the issue from start to finish, provides updates directly to the tenant who issued the work order + team in charge of the property, and helps with tenant communication overload when it comes to reporting things to our team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Commercial Real Estate
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Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Building Engines?

I have been using BE's PRISM product for over a year now and I think it is an extremely user friendly and accessible program. Customer Support team is very responsive, I had a sastifactory resolution to my inquiry within 24 hours, with viable solutions. I use this product daily to keep up with building maintenance and vendor compliance. This fully integrate into my daily operations as to assist with implementing new procedures to work out with vendors and tenants equally. It is easy for tenants and vendors to use this product and add to their daily routines as well, thus making it very easy to implement. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Building Engines?

Wish we were using the full suite of capabilities to manage the site, but it is not up to us at this site, but the building ownership group. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Building Engines solving and how is that benefiting you?

Vendor compliance on COIs, bill backs to tenants, work order management, equipment inventory and PM management. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

TN
Senior Property Manager
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Building Engines?

I have used the work order application to great advantage over the past 6 months. This was my first experince using work order software. I was a little reluctant at first. but now I see many benefits. I consult the sorted list of work orders for the month when I prepare my monthly accrual. The software keeps me up to date on all the outstanding project. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Building Engines?

The insurance application could be so much more effecient if we could upload the certificates directly to the software and Building Engines could populate all the insuance fields. The on-site inspection software is too cumbersome to do on site. i find I am spending too much time staring at my phone flipping through the menu of items. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Building Engines solving and how is that benefiting you?

Tracking Insurance certificates. Tracking work orders. organizing and submitting property inspections. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

RT
Property Associate
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Building Engines?

The features that Prism offers for Property Management allows for better organization in mangement the different properties in your portfolio. I specifically love the Work Order features. With the multitude of work orders that occur between my different properties, it can get overwhelming to track the status of the work order until completion. I frequently use the Work Order feauture in Prism to continually add notes about the status of the project and any changes that occur. I also love how you can track which Work Orders are overdue. This helps me to stay on top of the ongoing projects and allows me to communicate with tenants and vendor more effectively. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Building Engines?

I honestly cannot think of a bad feature of Prism. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Building Engines solving and how is that benefiting you?

Building Engines is helping to solve the issue of things being forgotten about/swept under the rug, such as expired COIs, uncompleted Work Orders, late inspections and preventative maintenace. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

DM
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What do you like best about Building Engines?

Prism is used on a daily basis, implementind with ease, the number of features helps the job easily. Intergratin is very easy and when need customer support is there. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Building Engines?

No dislikes using Prism easy to use and user friendlu Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Building Engines solving and how is that benefiting you?

Mostly issues that require repairs the work orders keep taack of issued and when repaired

Logging in vendors and help keep track of who is in the building Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Austin R.
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Acquisitions and Investments
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Building Engines?

We were doing work orders manually before we switched over to BE. It has been super productive and efficient for us to be able to streamline our work orders online and our property manager and chief engineer have been great at implementing this into our work flow and getting our yearly preventative maintenance schedule into BE to save time and busy work to allow us to have more time to do more important things. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Building Engines?

We would like to see a few tweaks, mainly being able to customize a few different things to help with our work orders. Also, the app could use a bit of tweaking as well to help our engineers easily select which task they are completing and be able to easily go back to a prior work order if they got pulled off of it to do something else. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Building Engines solving and how is that benefiting you?

As I said we were doing all of our work orders manually so this has really saved us some time in implementing this system to our office building. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

LK
Property Manager
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Building Engines?

It works. 98% of our tenants communicate work orders via PRISM. Some even take the time to rate the work. The 2% still prefers to email. But because the system works, the work orders go directly to the engineers/janitorials and bypasses management, relieving me to do other things. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Building Engines?

The reports. I dislike having to doctor up a friendly/print version of the reports to review with the team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Building Engines solving and how is that benefiting you?

work order management - BE allows the tenants to enter/review/follow up in BE. If the work flows well, management is completely free from the process. Management's role is then to review, asses, and implement more effective and efficient processes to resolve tenant issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Angela Arguson of Building Engines

Thank you so much for your review! We’re so glad to hear that your use of Prism enables a more efficient work day for you.

We are committed to providing a first-class Mobile App experience. There may be a setting on your phone which will allow you to stay logged in to the app for longer periods of time; for security reasons, users are automatically logged out and required to log-in after periods of no use.

Our Support Team is available to answer any questions you may have. Do not hesitate to reach out to us at prismsupport@buildingengines.com!