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Effective and Innovative Practices for the Strategic Facilities Manager

Effective and Innovative Practices for the Strategic Facilities Manager offers a generous sampling of practices and frameworks that can help you meet the challenges of today, as well as those in the foreseeable future.  Ever-tightening resources and pressures to work more efficiently and effectively call for a skill set that is able to assess the environment, advance new initiatives, and help organizations behave more proactively.  Written by seasoned professionals in facilities management and campus administration, the six parts and 16 chapters of this book weave themes of communication, collaboration, and delivering services in ways that align strategically with institutional goals.

Part 1: The Strategic Facilities Manager
Part 2: Customer Expectations
Part 3: Assessment
Part 4: Information Technology
Part 5: Prioritizing and Decision Making
Part 6: What's Next?





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Operational Guidelines for Educational Facilities: Custodial


Fully revised and updated.  Recalculated times for 33 standard room categories; 21 chapters; 7 appendices, including an extensive glossary and room/time matrices.  Recognized by the U.S. Green Building Council - 1 point toward LEED for Existing Buildings, Operations & Maintenance.

Please see the APPA Custodial Guidelines/CleanOpsStaff Package which includes a free copy of this publication!





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Operational Guidelines Trilogy Package

This package includes all three books in the popular APPA trilogy, Operational Guidelines for Educational Facilities:

 

• Custodial
• Grounds
• Maintenance

All have been fully revised and expanded and include numerous figures, graphics, glossaries, and additional resources.

The Trilogy Package is available in softcover format only.




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Operational Guidelines for Educational Facilities: Maintenance


Fully revised and updated. Includes 13 chapters and 3 appendices, including an extensive glossary and bibliography.




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Thought Leaders Report 2014: Leveraging Facilities for Institutional Success [PDF]

The 2014 Thought Leaders symposium, sponsored in part by DTZ, a UGL company, and Jacobs, focused on the issues and challenges related to leveraging campus facility assets to achieve desired institutional outcomes.  More than three dozen higher education leaders--including presidents, provosts, business officers, consultants, association executives, and facilities professionals--participated in a facilitated discussion and work session to examine the gap between where higher education wants to be and where it actually finds itself.
Participants sought to identify the key characteristics of successful campuses, then looked at what institutions are actually achieving – the disagreeable reality of unsustainable funding models, unsuccessful students, and poorly utilized resources.  The report includes an executive summary, strategies for improving institutional outcomes, the top facilities strategies to support the college or university, a lengthy resource section, and a list of participants.




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Strategic Capital Development: The New Model for Campus Investment

This book presents a bold approach for planning capital investments from a strategic and long-range perspective. The authors combine their extensive higher education experience and expertise to improve capital planning and decision-making and to make a case for a new model that seeks to balance idealism with pragmatism. They define stewardship principles necessary to create and sustain a physical plant that is responsive to institutional strategies and functions, that remains attractive to faculty and students, and optimizes available resources. Fully illustrated with 59 figures.  Includes extensive resource list.




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Cleanliness and Learning in Higher Education [PDF]

This national study of college students determined there is a correlation between the cleanliness of a school’s facilities and students’ academic achievement. Conducted through the Center for Facilities Research (CFaR) at APPA – the association promoting leadership in educational facilities – and co-sponsored by ISSA, the study was based around the five levels of clean identified in APPA’s Custodial Staffing Guidelines for Educational Facilities. Of the 1481 students polled, 88 percent reported that the lack of cleanliness becomes a distraction at APPA Level 3 (Casual Inattention) and Level 4 (Moderate Dinginess). Eighty-four percent reported that they desire APPA Level 1 (Orderly Spotlessness) or Level 2 (Ordinary Tidiness) standard of cleanliness to create a good learning environment. Cleanliness ranked as the fourth most important building element to impact the students’ personal learning.




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Building Commissioning Handbook, The, second edition

This popular handbook has been revised by the original authors (John A. Heinz and Rick Casault) to include the most up-to-date information on all aspects of building commissioning. This is your guide to: Staying on Budget; Improving the Quality of your Buildings; Meeting your Schedule; Increasing Energy Efficiency. Chapters outline the commissioning process from predesign to occupancy and explain the economics of commissioning and retrocommissioning.




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Environmental Sustainability

Environmental Sustainability is an anthology of 14 chapters and an extensive resource list on topics related to campus sustainability and environmental stewardship.  You'll find best practices, campus case studies, and research findings on topics such as integrating sustainability programs; the FM role in organizational sustainability; communications strategies; sustainability outreach programs; water management; geothermal; and more.




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Energy Efficiencies

Energy Efficiencies is an anthology of 15 chapters and an extensive resource list on topics related to campus energy management and conservation.  You'll find best practices, campus case studies, and research findings on topics such as green revolving funds and other funding strategies; ASHRAE 90.1; submetering your facility; site-recovery energy; water and sewer management; SmartGrid and microgrids; biomass heating; geothermal; and more.