Patent ID: 7548970

Claim:
A system for managing the maintenance of building facilities, the system being of the type which utilizes predefined events to carry out managing operations for the building facilities, said system comprising: at least one server is operable to receive predefined events including building inspection events from a client that can be located at the building facilities and forward said events to a clearinghouse via a communication link; at least one client having a unique login identity and is operable to selectively send said predefined events to said server via said communication link; and, a clearinghouse connected to each said server and each said client via said communication link for selectively storing data from each server and each client in a database, and is operable to authorize selected predefined events that can be performed by each client according to said login identity of each such client, to selectively schedule predefined events in response to data stored in said database and to monitor the status of all said predefined events stored in said database.