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Inspection reporting just got easier! BuildingReports is excited to introduce a powerful new integration with IROL (Inspection Reports Online) — designed to simplify the way service providers handle fire and life safety system reports.

Why This Matters
IROL, a trusted BuildingReports partner, provides a robust compliance submission platform that connects property owners, service providers, and Authorities Having Jurisdiction (AHJs) like fire marshals and city officials. Together, we’re making the reporting process faster, smoother, and more reliable.

How It Works
With this new integration, service providers and property owners can effortlessly submit Inspection, Testing, and Maintenance (ITM) reports directly from BuildingReports into IROL. This direct link allows AHJs to quickly review reports, track non-compliance issues, and monitor progress in real-time.

Key Benefits for You:

• Simplified Reporting: Streamlines the labor-intensive submission process to AHJs.
• Improved Efficiency: Cuts down unnecessary steps and eliminates the need to attach or submit separate report files.
• Real-Time Tracking: Easily track deficiencies and resolve compliance issues faster.
• Reduced Errors: Eliminates manual file handling and login processes across multiple systems.
• Quick Status Reviews: Get instant updates on the status of every inspection submitted through IROL.

Additional Resources

Submitting Multiple Reports to IROL
When submitting reports, you can either:

1. Submit and pay your local jurisdiction’s IROL submittal fees instantly.
2. Queue multiple reports and submit them together at your convenience.

When you’re ready to submit, simply head to the Integrations Section under “IROL” to view and select from your drafted reports.

Take control of your submissions and save time with this flexible new process!

About BuildingReports
Building-safety compliance is critical to service companies, building owners, and fire and safety officials charged with safeguarding occupants. BuildingReports’ mobile and online inspection reporting tools enable inspectors to accurately gather data on fire and life safety devices—ensuring these devices are working properly and meeting code requirements—as well as identify necessary compliance actions through easily verifiable inspection reports.

About IROL
In 2010, InspectionReportsOnline.net (IROL) Inc., was founded by a group with over one hundred years of combined experience in the Fire and Life Safety Industry. Stemming from their frustrations as former service providers engaged in Inspection, Testing, and Maintenance (ITM), including installation, service, and repairs of systems, their belief in the crucial role of systems as the first line of defense drove them to create a platform where this knowledge is harnessed for prevention and the protection of property and people.

 

Time equals money. We recently completed a Salesforce integration that enhances efficiency and precision to strengthen the support we provide our network of Service Members and their facility customers.

The Salesforce integration simplifies life for your entire team by accelerating deficiency information gathering at the asset level to promptly kickstart quoting or repairs. With this integration, the speed of generating repairs and quotes is significantly boosted through seamless data exchange between BuildingReports and Salesforce.

Our new integration provides comprehensive data, including failures, reasons for failure, make/model, customer details, and more.

Lastly, the two-way integration provides updated compliance documentation when repairs or replacements are logged within Salesforce.

Additional Resources

Create a Salesforce Opportunity or Work Order – With this new integration, members using Salesforce’s Field Service Lightning solution can create opportunities or work orders directly within an inspection report. Members can either create new Opportunities or Work Orders or add to existing ones. Additionally, members can link their BuildingReports building information directly to their customer’s corresponding Salesforce account through a simple search.

Sending Device Level Data – Members are able to select one or multiple discrepancies to send to the chosen Opportunity or Work Order. Critical information for those discrepancies, such as device type, location, model #, and reason for failure are then attached to your opportunity.

Track Your Linked Salesforce Opportunities/Work Orders – From the BuildingReports platform, you can track the status of any open Opportunities/Work Orders that are currently linked to one of your inspection reports. Salesforce Opportunities/Work Orders can be accessed easily through this section. As a member progresses through the various stages of quoting/approvals/repairs, the status of these items are updated.

Reports Updated with Fixed Dates – As members complete repairs for an inspection, “fixed” dates are automatically applied to any discrepancies addressed through Salesforce Field Service Lightning. For inspection reports in which all discrepancies are addressed, the inspection report’s tag color will automatically update to indicate all items have been addressed.

About BuildingReports
Building-safety compliance is critical to service companies, building owners, and fire and safety officials charged with safeguarding occupants. BuildingReports’ mobile and online inspection reporting tools enable inspectors to accurately gather data on fire and life safety devices—ensuring these devices are working properly and meeting code requirements—as well as identify necessary compliance actions through easily verifiable inspection reports.

About Salesforce
Salesforce is the world’s leading customer relationship management technology, helping businesses build and improve customer relationships. In 1999 they pioneered cloud-based CRM and today they’re helping organizations of all sizes re-imagine their business for the world of AI.

In our continuous effort to provide best-in-class tools for members of the fire and safety inspection industry, BuildingReports has developed an innovative and customizable Member Dashboard featuring advanced functionality and benefits, such as:

Choice of Widgets: After activating, you can use the Member Dashboard’s basic default view settings or select from a collection of Widgets containing pre-set charts and grids to customize your view and access your desired analytics.

Customized Persistence: Dashboard customization allows you to easily configure the platform to fit your working requirements in any environment. Whether on your home or office computer or your mobile device in the field, the dashboard will maintain your personalized settings across all devices.

Data-Driven Decision Making: Providing easy access to critical data and analytics, the Member Dashboard empowers you to make informed decisions about your customers’ building maintenance, safety protocols and compliance strategies. This proactive approach enhances safety and reduces non-compliance risk for service members’ customers.

Efficiency: The dashboard’s modular design enables service companies and facilities to quickly access the important information they need without navigating through unnecessary clutter. This saves valuable time and increases efficiency in monitoring and managing building safety and compliance.

Enhanced Communication: With access to a centralized and customized platform, all compliance partners can easily communicate, collaborate and collectively take action on critical information related to building inspections for service companies and facilities.

Scalability and Flexibility: The dashboard’s modular structure allows for efficient scalability and flexibility as your needs evolve. Whether managing a single building or a portfolio of properties, the Member Dashboard is designed to accommodate changing requirements and growth.

Shared Benefits: Service Members can easily share the Member Dashboard technology with their building owner and facility management customers to create a seamless digital experience and strengthen the vendor + customer relationship.

Tailored Insights: Dashboard personalization allows you to display the most relevant data and insights so you can focus on the metrics that matter most to you and your customers.

About BuildingReports
Building-safety compliance is critical to service companies, building owners, and fire and safety officials charged with safeguarding occupants. BuildingReports’ mobile and online inspection reporting tools enable inspectors to accurately gather data on fire and life safety devices—ensuring these devices are working properly and meeting code requirements—as well as identify necessary compliance actions through easily verifiable inspection reports.

 

Industry leader reports record growth among users of its fire and life safety inspection, testing, and maintenance mobile applications and online reporting services.

ATLANTA, GEORGIA, April 18, 2023 – The BuildingReports network of over 1,200 service and facility management professionals eclipsed the 10 million inspection, testing, and maintenance milestone. Founded in 2000, BuildingReports provides mobile inspection applications and web-based reporting tools to ensure critical facility assets are functioning properly and complying with applicable codes based on jurisdictional and occupancy type requirements.

To date, over 20 billion square feet of commercial and industrial floor space has been inspected and serviced using BuildingReports’ mobile and SaaS compliance reporting solutions. This team of dedicated industry professionals is proud of their impact on the industry for over two decades.

“When we started BuildingReports, we wanted to make a product that would change the industry and positively impact those who used it,” said Jason Kronz, president and chief technology officer. “Through our partnership with service providers, code enforcement officials, and facility management professionals, we’ve helped improve positive outcomes even during challenging times.”

In addition to ensuring that facility management professionals remain in compliance with code requirements, BuildingReports’ back-end analytics allows service providers to remotely monitor the performance of technicians in the field. The net result is asset-level intelligence that helps facilities and service providers mitigate risk while saving lives.

About BuildingReports
Building-safety compliance is critical to service companies, building owners, and fire and safety officials charged with safeguarding occupants. BuildingReports’ mobile and online inspection reporting tools enable inspectors to accurately gather data on fire and life safety devices—ensuring these devices are working properly and meeting code requirements—as well as identify necessary compliance actions through easily verifiable inspection reports.

ATLANTA, December 5, 2022 (Newswire.com) – BuildingReports, the Atlanta-headquartered leading provider of mobile and web-based technology solutions for the fire and life safety industry, has partnered with Philippines-based Digitrack Pte. Ltd. to grow its international presence. The announcement comes on the heels of BuildingReports’ recent launch of multilingual functionality in early 2022.

The new partnership adds to the international presence established in Latin America and long-time partnership with Canadian licensee Building Reports Canada. “The addition of BuildingReports Philippines to the BuildingReports family of companies and licensees is a significant step in our continued growth,” said Jason Kronz, BuildingReports President and Chief Technology Officer. “BuildingReports is pleased to partner with an industry service leader in the region to license our solutions to other service providers to help protect people and property.”

“We look forward to helping service companies and facilities in our region improve their fire prevention and protection efforts while reducing liability as a partner of the industry-leading technology provider,” says Digitrack General Manager, Joshua Martin C. Casten. “As compliance requirements evolve and building system technologies advance, automating the inspection and reporting process becomes increasingly imperative to ensure requirements are met.”

BuildingReports was founded in 2000, and its flagship mobile application suite, ScanSeries®, allows inspection, testing and maintenance companies to conduct verifiable inspections using a device barcoding and scanning process. Digitrack currently operates across Asia and Africa providing firefighting, fire detection. and alarm system services for the industrial market, ranging from light manufacturing to heavy industrial facilities.

About BuildingReports
Building-safety compliance is critical to service companies, building owners, and fire and safety officials charged with safeguarding occupants. BuildingReports’ mobile and online inspection reporting tools enable inspectors to accurately gather data on fire and life safety devices—ensuring these devices are working properly and meeting code requirements—as well as identify necessary compliance actions through easily verifiable inspection reports.

ATLANTA, October 5, 2022 (Newswire.com) – BuildingReports.com, Inc. and Inspection Reports Online (IROL, Inc.) have executed a new partnership to combine two of the leading inspection, testing, and maintenance (ITM) technology platforms to provide web-based solutions for Authorities Having Jurisdiction, service providers, and facility management professionals. BuildingReports’ investment in IROL resulted from a years-long relationship and mutual passion to provide solutions that help protect people and property. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

Created by a group of individuals who have over 100 years of combined experience in the Fire and Life Safety Industry and the Fire Service, IROL was developed to address the frustration and challenges regarding fire and life safety system ITM and overall system performance such as: affordable field reporting software, ITM records management, and tracking deficiency remediation. Today, IROL’s solutions continue to provide advance technology that delivers real-time data, increases code enforcement, and overall builds safer communities.

BuildingReports launched a similar solution, ComplianceCenter, in 2015 to assist fire prevention jurisdictions with digital submittal to eliminate the expense and challenges of paper reporting. Both organizations plan to develop a uniform, fully integrated solution to address the challenges facing the fire prevention officials tasked with ensuring compliance requirements are met within their jurisdictions. Existing users of both platforms will continue to be fully supported in the interim.

“We’re excited to combine our resources in our mission to provide third-party reporting technology for the betterment of community risk reduction,” explained Jason Kronz, BuildingReports’ President and Chief Technology Officer. “Fire prevention officials are under significant pressure to enforce code requirements to help protect communities, but with the IROL partnership, we have enhanced our ability to help protect save lives.”

“With our combined industry experience and value proposition, the sky is the limit,” said Jill Cotton, Communications Director at IROL. “Both organizations are passionate about providing innovative solutions to help save lives. Our goal is to create sustainable prevention and risk reduction strategies that help build safer communities, and this partnership will only strengthen our ability to achieve that goal.”

About BuildingReports
Building-safety compliance is critical to service companies, building owners, and fire and safety officials charged with safeguarding occupants. BuildingReports’ mobile and online inspection reporting tools enable inspectors to accurately gather data on fire and life safety devices—ensuring these devices are working properly and meeting code requirements—as well as identify necessary compliance actions through easily verifiable inspection reports.

About IROL
In 2010, InspectionReportsOnline.net (IROL) Inc., was founded by a group with over one hundred years of combined experience in the Fire and Life Safety Industry. Stemming from their frustrations as former service providers engaged in Inspection, Testing, and Maintenance (ITM), including installation, service, and repairs of systems, their belief in the crucial role of systems as the first line of defense drove them to create a platform where this knowledge is harnessed for prevention and the protection of property and people.

ATLANTA, August 22, 2022 (Newswire.com) – In early August, the BuildingReports network of over 1,000 fire protection, life safety, security, and mechanical service providers recently surpassed the 9 millionth inspection milestone. Founded in 2000, BuildingReports provides mobile inspection applications and web-based reporting tools to help ensure critical facility assets are functioning properly and complying with applicable codes based on jurisdictional and occupancy type requirements.

To date, over 18.6 billion square feet of commercial and industrial floor space and over 630 million individual assets have been inspected or serviced using BuildingReports solutions. The pandemic put a strain on these industries, but the premier service companies that leverage contact-free technology continued to execute inspections despite several facility closures, allowing the uninterrupted delivery of required inspection documentation to the Authority Having Jurisdiction and stakeholders.

“We’re proud to assist our partners in continuing to grow during what was a tough time for many while also ensuring the safety of people and property,” said Jason Kronz, BuildingReports’ president and chief technology officer. “This new milestone is truly a testament to these dedicated service providers and facility management professionals. Without their perseverance, the threat of critical facility assets failing in the event of an emergency could have put even more lives in danger.”

In addition to ensuring that facility management professionals remained in compliance with code requirements since 2020, BuildingReports’ back-end analytics allowed service providers to remotely monitor the performance of technicians in the field. The BuildingReports network of over 1,000 service members has been providing remote services for over two decades, including remote inspection submission, device merging, and other back-end operational capabilities intrinsic to BuildingReports’ industry-leading ScanSeries and SaaS reporting services.

About BuildingReports
Building-safety compliance is critical to service companies, building owners, and fire and safety officials charged with safeguarding occupants. BuildingReports’ mobile and online inspection reporting tools enable inspectors to accurately gather data on fire and life safety devices—ensuring these devices are working properly and meeting code requirements—as well as identify necessary compliance actions through easily verifiable inspection reports.

ATLANTA–(BUSINESS WIRE)–BuildingReports, the Atlanta-headquartered leading provider of mobile and web-based technology solutions for the fire and life safety industry, has grown its Latin American presence. The company already has thousands of regional users that have performed hundreds of thousands of commercial and industrial fire alarm, fire sprinkler, fire suppression, life safety and security inspections, despite, until now, only having English and French-Canadian versions of its mobile applications and online reporting solution.

The organization has also invested in additional staff to drive sales and current user growth. Paul Gutiérrez, Gerente de Ventas de Latinoamérica, will be leading the expansion. “We are very excited to add this functionality for our loyal service members, but also about the new opportunities it creates,” explains Gutierrez. “Countries in the region are becoming more aggressive in their fire prevention and protection efforts, to both protect citizens and attract more interest in international development.”

“BuildingReports’ success has been built on trust, a critical foundation when your business is protecting lives and property,” says BuildingReports president and chief technology officer, Jason Kronz. “We understand how important relationships are to our Latin American Members, and we are committed to forging similar relationships with new partners who require a Spanish-language version for employees and customers.”

BuildingReports was founded in 2000, and its flagship mobile application suite, ScanSeries®, allows inspection, testing and maintenance companies to conduct verifiable inspections using a device barcoding and scanning process. The suite includes the following:

• FireScan® allows for data collection during fire inspections for control equipment, auxiliary functions, initiating devices, monitoring equipment and notification appliances.
• HVACScan® enables heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration technicians to provide detailed service logs and documentation for electrical and mechanical components.
• SafetyScan® enables inspectors to create detailed inspection reports for portable fire extinguishers, lighting, personal protective and safety equipment in any facility.
• SecurityScan® allows inspectors to collect inspection data for burglar and security systems, access control, CCTV and nurse call stations.
• SprinklerScan® enables inspectors to easily test and inspect sprinkler systems and water-based fire protection systems in any environment.
• SuppressionScan® lets inspectors scan and record detailed data for the most critical hazards in any building, including data for clean agent, gas detection and kitchen hood systems.

About BuildingReports
Building-safety compliance is critical to service companies, building owners, and fire and safety officials charged with safeguarding occupants. BuildingReports’ mobile and online inspection reporting tools enable inspectors to accurately gather data on fire and life safety devices—ensuring these devices are working properly and meeting code requirements—as well as identify necessary compliance actions through easily verifiable inspection reports.