March/April 2022 • volume 38, number 2

Dawn Aguilera

As this is my first opportunity to write for Facilities Manager magazine, I thought about the aspects of APPA membership that matter to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) and to my career personally. Then I thought about matters that affect our members and decided to write an article that is about a little bit of […]

Eric Conrad

Last fall, President Joe Biden signed into law the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), a $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill. Allocating billions of additional dollars in appropriations for myriad aspects of U.S. national infrastructure, IIJA is one of the most significant infrastructure bills put forward in recent decades. As these dollars are deployed, higher-education […]

Theodore J. Weidner, Ph.D., P.E., RA, NCARB, DBIA, CEFP

One of the easiest pieces of data for a facility manager to gather are time records. That’s because most employees are paid by the hour, and these records are considered important information for the business office and the employee’s paycheck. But an employee’s time records should not be gathered solely for the payroll department; it […]

Damon Carson

For more than 50 years, the world has been enamored with recycling. It seemed like the environmentally friendly solution to waste. But the truth is, recycling means chip it, shred it, grind it, or melt it. To recycle something means to convert it back into a raw material, which requires a lot of energy and […]

Brent Johnson, P.E.

In the United States, over one third of the vehicles on the road are projected to be electric by 2050. Many colleges and universities are in the early phases of planning and implementing electric vehicle (EV) charging on campus. Often referred to as electric vehicle supply equipment (EVSE), chargers located on campus will be requested […]