APPA Publications Transform, Inform, Inspire
Fill your shelves with resources from the APPA bookstore, and elevate your knowledge of facilities management. APPA publications can help you transform your institution with the most current, innovative, and relevant information available, including industry standards, best practices, creative solutions, and practical tools.
APPA's bookstore is your entry point to the largest, most relevant, and comprehensive knowledge bank in the field of educational facilities, including publications written by APPA member experts specific to the four core areas that make up the educational facilities Body of Knowledge:
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| |  Strategic Capital Development: The New Model for Campus Investment
COMING SOON! 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 | |
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| |  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.
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| |  Educational Facilities Professional's Practical Guide to Reducing the Campus Carbon Footprint [Sustainability Guide]
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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| |  Custodial Staffing Guidelines/CleanOpsStaff Package
APPA’s popular guide to custodial staffing has been supplemented with a new software application exclusively available from APPA. CleanOpsStaff allows you to easily run calculations on your cleanliness data and helps you justify your human and funding resources for both new and existing buildings. | | Order Now | |
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| |  Facility Management Shared Services: The Balance Between In-House Services and Outsourcing
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.
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| |  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 serve a higher purpose.
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| | Environmental Compliance Assistance Guide, second edition
This second edition of Environmental Compliance Assistance Guide for Colleges and Universities updates the key environmental rules and regulations affecting physical surroundings of our campuses. Facilities and campus safety professional can use this comprehensive guide to assist them in meeting current environmental regulation requirements. | | Order Now | |
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| | ASHRAE Guideline 0-2005 - The Commissioning Process
The purpose of this Guideline is to describe the Commissioning Process capable of verifying that a facility and its systems meet the Owner’s Project Requirements. The procedures, methods, and documentation requirements in this guideline describe each phase of the project delivery and the associated Commissioning Processes from pre-design through occupancy and operation, without regard to specific elements, assemblies, or systems, and provide the following: (a) overview of Commissioning Process activities, (b) description of each phase’s processes, (c) requirements for acceptance of each phase, (d) requirements for documentation of each phase, and (e) requirements for training of operation and maintenance personnel. These Commissioning Process guideline procedures include the Total Building Commissioning Process (TBCxP) as defined by National Institute of Building Sciences (NIBS) in its Commissioning Process Guideline 0. | | Order Now | |
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| | Green Package
This package of five publications will help you meet the environmental needs of your campus. Buying the package gives you an extra 10% discount! | | Order Now | |
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| | ASHRAE GreenGuide: The Design, Construction and Operation of Sustainable Buildings, 2nd edition
This manual shows HVAC&R system designers how to participate effectively on design teams, from the earliest stages of the project through the resulting structure’s construction, operation, maintenance, and eventual demolition. It also includes:
• LEED guidance for mechanical engineers (new chapter)
• Indoor and outdoor effects of building systems on the local environment (new chapter)
• Design techniques of related technical disciplines, such as plumbing and lighting
• The interaction and influence between mechanical and electrical systems and architectural design
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| | Quality Customer Service | |
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| | Making Your Message Memorable | |
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| | Rightful Termination | |
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| | ASHRAE Guideline 0-2005 - The Commissioning Process | |
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| | ASHRAE GreenGuide: The Design, Construction and Operation of Sustainable Buildings, 2nd edition | |
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| | Air-Conditioning System Design Manual | |
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| | HVAC Simplified | |
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| | HVAC Simplified Solutions Manual | |
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| | HVAC Design Manual for Hospitals and Clinics | |
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| | ASHRAE Standard 62.1-2007 -- Ventilation for Acceptable Indoor Air Quality | |
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| | Thought Leaders Series 08 - Demographic Changes | |
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| | Time Management, 3rd Ed | |
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| | Fast Forward MBA in Project Management | |
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| | Facility Management Shared Services: The Balance Between In-House Services and Outsourcing | |
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| | Strategic Capital Development: The New Model for Campus Investment | |
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