Professional Development Column

Facility professionals with strong leadership skills are increasingly in demand at healthcare and higher education institutions.

As the profession evolves, more higher education institutions offer formalized instruction.

When maintenance “strategies” are unplanned, organizations can experience premature equipment failure, reduction in occupant satisfaction, and higher prices for repairs and equipment replacements.

A tried and true procurement method gets a fresh look. This procurement method enables facility managers to complete numerous projects with one contract.

Veterans and rookies bridge the gap between the experienced technician and the new recruit.

On average, lightning kills more people than hurricanes and tornadoes combined every year.

What should facilities managers know and expect?

How can facility managers decide the fate of aging buildings?

What do facility managers need to know about the government crackdown on I-9s?

Vision, strategy, and roadmap create an enterprise wide strategy.

EPA's requirement to report emissions may be coming to your facility.

As work styles are evolving, employees are spending less time in individual offices and more time working together.

Building Information Modeling can help facility managers stay up to date.

Guest Columnist Teresa L. Jakubowski explains how new standards of Titles II and III of the ADA can be decoded.

Occupational safety programs are key to maintaining a healthy and productive workforce, even in a down economy.

Guest Columnist Bill Garland recommends facility managers look beyond face value when partnering with outside firms.

Guided self assessments are tools to supplement professionally administered data collection.

Tony Rankin explains how many aspects of sustainable design translate into substantial savings for budgets as well.

In part two of this commissioning feature, find out how savings can come from systems and equipment optimization.

In this final piece in the series, Columnist Krall looks at how recycling programs at large facilities can have big benefits.