Let’s Get Real Is your facilities management team prepared to overcome a catastrophic event? No, we’re not talking about disaster recovery here, although focused training to overcome natural disasters is essential. We’re talking about the unforeseen...
Organizational Alignment: How to Do It and Why It’s Important for Facility Managers Facility management entails a vast and complex scope – budget and capital planning, design and construction, operation and maintenance, energy management, project management, service...
Facility Managers: Avoid These Nine Common Mistakes to Get the Most Value Out of Your Training Investments I specialize in developing and implementing training programs for facilities management teams. Like anything else, some programs progress smoother than others,...
Total Cost of Ownership Simplified In any business environment, the term “Total Cost of Ownership” is generally defined as all direct and indirect costs associated with an asset over its entire life cycle – first cost plus the costs of operation. First cost is ALWAYS...
Resource Round-Up: Free and Inexpensive Resources for Energy and Facility Managers Free stuff can be a fantastic thing. It’s even better when the free stuff is something you can actually use and has value. During a recent exercise to round up free and useful energy...
