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!

The 2012 Thought Leaders Symposium, sponsored in part by DTZ, a UGL company, and Jacobs, identified major issues, trends, and recommendations related to the focused topic of space management and utilization in higher education.  The report includes an executive summary, aspects of space allocation and management, opportunities and implications for improved space management, references and resources, and the top space management issues for higher education:

• Align space management to the mission of the institution
• Make space one of the top assets of the institution
• Change the culture of space
• Develop effective policies, processes, and organizational structures to manage space
• Implement a space inventory system to understand resources and identify needs
• Address space utilization by assembling credible data and adopting best practices

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.

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.

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

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

Fully revised and updated. Includes 5 Levels of Service for 6 standard spaces; 9 chapters; 4 appendices, including an extensive grounds/landscape operations glossary.
 

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

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.