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STEVE LEFKOWITZ
HEAD OF GLOBAL FACILITIES MANAGEMENT
TIME WARNER
Steve Lefkowitz is the Head of Global Facilities Management for Time Warner.
He oversees FM operations and directs a center of excellence organization
supporting delivery of hard and soft services across their diversified global
portfolio of properties. He is a 35-year veteran of Time Warner where he has
held multiple titles including SVP of CRE for HBO. His experience includes
transactions, engineering, facilities operations and directing complex real
estate construction projects. He is known as a results-driven and prof-
it-minded executive in the corporate real estate world with the ability to man-
age large-scale real estate portfolios.
What were your major technology projects over the last year, and what was
your organizational role?
Let me first provide context by framing up our organization and the proj-
ect I believe would be of most interest to the RealcommEDGE audience.
Considered a global leader in the media and entertainment industry, Time
Warner has three operating divisions, HBO, Warner Bros., and Turner.
Approximately 25,000 employees and 15M square feet of property worldwide.
Our journey began over six years ago with a directive to reduce our NYC real
estate portfolio. We had over 2M square feet of property due to expire at the
end of 2018. The strategic program led to consolidating seven buildings and
ultimately reducing our footprint by 1M square feet.
Ultimately, by automating After an extensive discovery & programming process, we settled on partnering
tasks and sequences, with Related Properties at Hudson Yards, the popular emerging market in mid-
town Manhattan. This new neighborhood is being constructed over existing
we intend for our smart rail yards. There will be 16 towers including commercial, residential and retail
building to communicate space. In terms of scale, it is the largest private real estate development in
U.S. history.
directly with our work order
technology: assign work The site at 30 Hudson Yards is a 1290 ft. 90-floor skyscraper. We will be
occupying more than half of this tower and have designed it as a building-
tickets, drive preventive in-a-building to control our own core critical systems. Our mission-critical
maintenance and in some businesses are dependent on our ability to operate with five nines of reliability
instances actually make requiring our building infrastructure to be state-of-the-art and driven by smart
building technology.
system adjustments.
Partnering with our information technology team early in the process was
of paramount importance. Utilization of our enterprise-wide networks, four
corner WiFi and cyber security protocol are all vital components of our smart
building program.
Tell us about your challenges and decision-making process.
With a booming market of smart building technology providers, the challenge
for us was to clearly understand the key elements and decision points needed
to implement the program. After a trip to a CoRE Tech event with some of our
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