September 21, 2007—ARCHIBUS, Inc, a leading provider of real estate, infrastructure and facilities management solutions, reports that Penn National Insurance of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, has deployed a range of Web-based ARCHIBUS applications to more effectively manage that company’s growing list of physical assets and maintenance work orders.
Those applications are used to support Penn National’s 860 employees who occupy 243,200 square feet of space, in two buildings and three leased spaces, and manage approximately 20,000 furniture and equipment assets. The company also leases to other organizations approximately 73,000 square feet of space; and operates a 12-floor parking garage.
As Penn National Insurance Company embarked, in the early 1990s, on a program of replacing all its furniture and tagging those assets in compliance with its leases, it was also exploring the construction of a new corporate headquarters—and factoring in still more furniture and equipment to fill it.
Those twin pursuits pointed out the need to more effectively manage what would be a rapidly growing number of work orders and physical assets, says Brent Reifsnyder, the companys Director of Administrative Services.
Penn National has, over several years, implemented ARCHIBUS Web Central, Real Property & Lease Management, Space Management, Building Operations Management, Furniture & Equipment Management, Work Wizard, and Overlay for AutoCAD applications.
ARCHIBUS continues to be the primary resource for work order management and fixed asset management, including depreciation calculation and space management for budget chargebacks.
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