Newly Published ! Operational Guidelines for Educational Facilities

Fully Revised and updated editions of APPA's popular trilogy of Custodial, Maintenance, and Grounds guidelines publications
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	Custodial Guidelines/CleanOpsStaff Package This is a fully updated and revised software application that supplements APPA's popular publication, Operational Guidelines for Educational Facilities: Custodial, third edition. CleanOpsStaff-3ed includes the five APPA Appearance Levels, 33 standard room categories, custodial data in cleanable square feet (csf), and much more. The software is network-enabled, allowing real-time file sharing. CleanOpsStaff-3ed performs all the calculations of the Operational Guidelines: Custodial publication, generates reports, generates audit package with LEED Existing Building EQ credits calculation. In addition, you can export reports and other data to Excel, Word, or PowerPoint. This purchase includes the book and a Product Code for activation of the software, as well as 60 days of tech support from the software developer.		Order Now

	Grounds Guidelines/GroundsOpsStaff Package This is the updated software application that supplements APPA's popular publication, Operational Guidelines for Educational Facilities: Grounds, second edition. GroundsOpsStaff-2ed includes the five APPA Appearance Levels, the six standard grounds areas, worksheets for grounds inventory data in multiple units of measure, and much more. The software allows you to easily run calculations on your grounds staffing data and helps you justify your human and funding resources for your campus' landscape operation. GroundsOpsStaff is network-enabled, allowing real-time file sharing. GroundsOpsStaff-2ed performs all the calculations of the Operational Guidelines: Grounds publication, generates reports, and generates audit package. In addition, you can export reports and other data to Excel, Word, or PowerPoint. Your purchase includes a copy of the Operational Guidelines: Grounds publication, a Product Code for software activation, and 60 days of tech support provided by the software developer.		Order Now

	Benchmarking & Organizational Change, second edition Fully revised and updated from the classic best-seller of 2000, Benchmarking & Organizational Change will assist in integrating the technical, human, and economic aspects of an organization in order to optimize your business and planning results. Author Mo Qayoumi, president of San Jose State University, helps organizations embrace rapid and perpetual change and practice the principles of effective benchmarking. Benchmarking will achieve the following for your organization: stimulate creativity across the enterprise minimize or eliminate complacency and the superficial mindset expand horizons beyond your industry enhance sensitivity to external factors align your business strategies to action plans create an ongoing sense of urgency to remain competitive and, possibly, outpace your competition		Order Now

	Body of Knowledge/BOK [1-year subscription] APPA’s Body of Knowledge (the BOK) completely updates the contents of Facilities Management: A Manual for Plant Administration — APPA’s major reference book published in three editions since 1984—and makes them available in a searchable digital database. The BOK is a core resource for the facilities management profession and serves as the foundation of learning for many of APPA’s programs and services, including the Institute for Facilities Management and APPA’s certification program. Access to the Body of Knowledge is through an annual subscription. Member institutions of APPA pay a discounted price, and the subscription price is reduced after the first year. Your subscription allows BOK access to anyone in your organization. Download the current table of contents.		Order Now

	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.		Order Now

	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.		Order Now

	Operational Guidelines for Educational Facilities: Grounds *Fully revised and updated.* Includes 5 Levels of Service for 6 standard spaces; 9 chapters; 4 appendices, including an extensive grounds/landscape operations glossary.		Order Now

	Operational Guidelines for Educational Facilities: Maintenance Fully revised and updated. Includes 13 chapters and 3 appendices, including an extensive glossary and bibliography.		Order Now

	Facility Management Shared Services: The Balance Between In-House Services and Outsourcing [PDF] Facility Management Shared Services: The Balance Between In-House Services and Outsourcing focuses on the symbiotic and collaborative relationships and partnerships are working with outsourced contracted services. This book will help to: • better define a shared service model between in-house and outsourced facility services; • increase understanding of how to optimize the value of shared services; and • forecast future outsourcing trends based on current practices. Includes interviews with facilities professionals using both in-house services and outsourcing, research findings, recommendations, and questionnaires to use in gauging the needs of your own facility.		Order Now

	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.		Order Now

	Green Campus: Meeting the Challenge of Environmental Sustainability, The This sustainability anthology explores the meaning of genuine environmental sustainability—in global and local terms—while profiling excellent campus environmental programs. The book offers guidance and inspiration to campus leaders and advocates who promote sustainability within institutions of higher education, and addresses these fundamental questions: • What does it mean to be a green campus? • Is it possible for educational institutions to effectively reduce their sizable environmental footprints? • How can individuals make a difference and successfully advocate more environmentally sustainable campus operations? • Is the education community poised to create solutions to our most vexing environmental problems? This comprehensive resource is a vital tool that administrators, faculty, staff, students, and concerned citizens can use to help the education community in its role as environmental stewards.		Order Now

	Educational Facilities Professional's Practical Guide to Reducing the Campus Carbon Footprint/Sustainability Guide [PDF] As more institutions respond to the American College & University Presidents Climate Commitment, or are otherwise responsible for campus environmental stewardship, this implementation guide gives educational facilities professionals a practical framework for moving forward in their unique role within this process. The intent is to help facilities managers maximize their specific contributions and share their expertise and knowledge while working in tandem with other campus stakeholders to meet their institutions’ goals of carbon neutrality and reduced greenhouse gas emissions. Generously sponsored and supported by AEI, Affiliated Engineers Inc.		Order Now

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