With high-ranking titles like the following:

President

CEO

Senior Vice President

VP of Facilities Management

Assistant VP

Asset Manager

Facilities Manager

HVAC Engineer

Senior Regional Facility Manager

IT Director

Operations Director

Head Engineer

Building Supervisor

Building Type / Demographic

Product Selection Involvement

Establish Your Credibility and Build Your Brand In Print

The Only Third-Party AAM Audited Magazine in the Industry

Building Operating Management magazine circulates to a 100% qualified list of 60,000 building owners and facilities executives. Our subscribers are engaged, motivated and manage multi million-dollar budgets. They are the movers and shakers in the industry. When you advertise with Building Operating Management, you reach and influence these types of high‐ranking, influential readers.

The 2022 Building Operating Management media usage study of facilities executives found that trade magazines were the number one source they use to learn about products and brands for purchase. Trade magazines finished ahead of search engines, websites, and social. Print does a better job than digital when it comes to getting your brand in front of facilities executives.

Circulation / AAM

Print stimulates action. Our 2022 Building Operating Management media usage study found the following about our subscribers:

• 88% say after reading articles or ads in BOM, they refer to a manufacturer's website
• 81% use ads in BOM to learn about new products and services

View PDF of our AAM Statement

All editorial topics are subject to change without notice.

2025 Digital Editions of BOM Editorial Calendar

Preferred File Types

• 4‐Color process (CMYK) Ads: PDF/X‐1a:2001 or TIFF (TIF).
• 2‐Color (3 Process colors maximum): EPS or DCS2 (Photoshop eps).
• Black & White (Process Black/Grayscale): EPS or TIFF (TIF).

(Note: We are unable to process Microsoft Publisher files)

10 STEP GUIDE to obtaining a maximum quality print ad

1. All fonts must be embedded, converted to outline or rasterized. List of non supported fonts.
2. Photos and artwork should be at least 300 dpi. Lineart (ie: logos) should be 1200 dpi bitmap or a Vector image. We cannot submit any photos or artwork, to the printer, with less than 266 dpi.
3. All color must be set up in either spot color or CMYK (process color). All RGB colors will be converted and will not appear in print as it did on-screen.
4. All black type must be black only, not Rich Black or Registration.
5. All color photos must be converted to CMYK with a total ink limit of 300%. Click here to see how to insure proper ink density levels.
6. All black and white photos must be converted to grayscale with a 20-25% dot gain.
7. Documents should be set up to the correct final ad size. (No printer marks)
8. Any bleeds need to be set at 0.125" on all sides - no printer's marks or slugs.
9. Transparencies must be flattened. Layer/effects, Flattener Presets must be set to "high resolution."
10. It is recommended to use the Adobe PDF preset: PDF/X-1a:2001 when creating your PDF file. This setting is an industry standard for printing (please deselect all printer mark defaults and, if applicable, include the bleed here).

Color Typography

For optimum reproduction and clear and sharp copy, use sans serif fonts such as Arial, Calibri, Helvetica, Myriad or similar for small type. Reverse type reproduces best with large bold sans serif fonts. The same is true for color type. Thin serif fonts are difficult to read in color or reverse type. It is recommended that four color type and/or small four color reverse knock-outs be avoided. Black type that uses four color blends should never be used (Registration not allowed).

• Publication Trim Size: 7.875 x 10.75
• Live Area: 7 x 10

2 Page Spread Bleed

• Bleed 16 x 11 Trim 15.75 x 10.75
• Live matter must be kept 0.5 inch away from untrimmed edge and allow 0.25 inch clearance for gutter.
• Trim variance is 1/8 inch

Building Operating Management can conduct custom research into the buying habits, brand awareness, product preferences and specification process of facility executives. Our research department conducts both quantitative and qualitative studies.

*Quantitative Research: Email invite/webbased surveys, telephone surveys, and postal (mail) surveys.

*Qualitative Research: Face-to-face research including in-depth interviews, focus group recruitment and moderation telephone surveys.

Call or email us for a free quick consultation to discuss your research needs and how we can help you. Contact Charlie Collins at 414-228-6860 x452 or email charlie.collins@tradepress.com.

What do you get when you combine the largest audiences of building owners and facilities executives with maintenance and engineering managers? FacilitiesNet.com! Reach over 200,000 professionals making buying decisions for today's buildings and campuses when you use FacilitiesNet and it's related magazines and trade shows.

FacilitiesNet.com is the go‐to site for online news, reports, career development, products and insights on facilities management. If you want today's facility executive to be aware of you, this is the place to be. It's also the online home for Building Operating Management and Facility Maintenance Decisions magazines, as well as the digital counterpart for the NFMT family of trade shows.