Tabletop Ready: Running Realistic Outage Drills for Building Technology

Many building teams know they should prepare for outages, but tabletop exercises and live drills either never happen or feel unrealistic and pointless. In this episode Alex Morgan interviews Michael Harrington to break down a practical, low-friction approach for designing 30–90 minute outage exercises that reveal the true operational risks in modern buildings. We cover how to pick meaningful scenarios (power + comms + access interactions), recruit the right cross-functional players (facilities, IT, security, vendors, tenants), run a tight facilitation that produces actionable decisions, and turn findings into prioritized remediation and playbooks. Listeners will walk away with a repeatable structure for exercises, guidance on balancing realism with tenant disruption, and examples of common failure modes these drills uncover. This is about creating predictable, affordable readiness that improves resilience and clarifies who must act when systems fail.

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