How to Use Advanced Search to Find Buildings in Our Database

Learn how to effectively use our advanced search feature to find buildings based on specific criteria such as location, size, and compliance status.

March 19, 2025 By Jason Block

In this guide, we'll learn how to effectively use the advanced search feature to filter our database of buildings based on various criteria, such as housing classification, location, size, systems, and compliance status.

Once you've selected your criteria, you can view a list of buildings that match your search. You can explore individual building pages and add them to collections. You can also save your search criteria for future use so you can easily access updated results as new data becomes available over time.

Let's get started

In this tutorial, I'll explain how to use our advanced search feature to search our building database based on your criteria. This feature is located on the advanced search tab on your homepage.

On the left, you'll find various criteria to use for filtering, such as housing classification, compliance status, building location, size, and systems, and more.

Step #2: Scroll down to see all available criteria — Scroll down to see all available criteria

Step #3: Select your desired criteria — Select your desired criteria

Step #4: You can also add ranges — You can also add ranges

When you're done adding your desired criteria, click "Search" to see a list of buildings that meet those criteria.

Step #5: Click on "Search" — Click on "Search"

From your list, you can click on an item to open that building's page in a new tab, allowing you to examine it more closely.

Step #6: Click on any building address — Click on any building address

Or you can select buildings and add them to a collection.

Step #7: Select buildings — Select buildings

Step #8: Click on "Add To Collection" — Click on "Add To Collection"

You can add them to any of your existing collections or create a new collection.

Step #9: Add to existing collection — Add to existing collection

Step #10: Or create a new collection — Or create a new collection

Step #11: Click on "Add Buildings To Collection" — Click on "Add Buildings To Collection"

If you like this set of criteria, you can save it as a Quick Search. We're always adding to our database of buildings, so this will let you perform an updated search in the future.

Step #12: Click on "Save As Quick Search" — Click on "Save As Quick Search"

Step #14: Click on "Save Search" — Click on "Save Search"

Next time you want to run that search again, just click on the Quick Search name to view updated results.

Step #15: Click on Quick Search name — Click on Quick Search name