A four-year project to convert Oberlin College’s fossil fuel-based heating and cooling system to a geothermal system is now online. The Sustainable Infrastructure Program (SIP) project replaced aging infrastructure with a new system powered by 850 geothermal wells on the practice fields north of campus, water-source heat pumps, and an underground network of pipes. Nearly […]
Gayer Selected As 2024 Rex Dillow Award Recipient
Jamie K. Gayer, senior human resources director at Indiana University—Bloomington, has been selected as APPA’s Rex Dillow Award recipient for 2024. Her timely and exceptional article, Empowering Tomorrow’s Skilled Trade Professionals: Modernizing Apprenticeship Programs in FM, stands out for its insightful exploration of how apprenticeship programs can evolve and better meet the needs of the […]
Rethinking Carbon Neutrality, Campus Space, and Next-Gen Workforce Among Most Read Stories of 2024
2024 was an eventful year for facilities professionals as well as APPA International, and Facilities Manager magazine was there to document it all. As 2025 is only weeks away, we wanted to look back at the five most-read articles that appeared in Facilities Manager magazine during 2024. Carbon neutrality is a much-talked-about goal among educational […]
Member Spotlight: Georgia State Plans Transformation of Atlanta Campus
Georgia State University will soon begin a nine-phase project to upgrade, reinvigorate, and reimagine the Atlanta campus that will also jumpstart the downtown overhaul. The campus overhaul project comes after the receipt of an $80 million gift from the Robert W. Woodruff Foundation, the most significant gift in the 111-year history of Georgia State. The gift […]