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APPA's Top 10 Best Sellers
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Strategic Capital Development: The New Model for Campus Investment.
Author: Harvey H. Kaiser & Eva Klein
New from APPA! 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.
softcover, 172 pages, ISBN 1-890956-55-4, Item A763
$ 82.00 (Member Price: $ 70.00)
Date Published: 2010
Note: Presented by APPA's Center for Facilities Research (CFaR)
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Building Commissioning Handbook, The, second edition.
Author: John A. Heinz & Rick Casault
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.
softcover, 404 pages, ISBN 1-890956-28-7, Item A748
$ 95.00 (Member Price: $ 65.00)
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Custodial Staffing Guidelines for Educational Facilities, second edition.
Author: APPA
APPA’s popular guide to custodial staffing includes the original concepts of the five levels of clean and includes information on such specialized facilities areas as dormitories, healthcare facilities, and more. 33 room categories in all. Thousands of the guidelines books have been purchased and adapted for use by colleges and universities, K-12 school districts, museums, commercial buildings, and many other facilities.
softcover, 260 pages, ISBN 0-890956-06-6, Item A727
$ 95.00 (Member Price: $ 75.00)
Date Published: 1998
Note: Recognized by the U.S. Green Building Council - 1 point toward LEED for Existing Buildings, Operations & Maintenance
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Body of Knowledge/BOK [1-year subscription].
Author: APPA BOK Content Writers
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.
Download the current table of contents.
, Item ABOK
$ 499.00 (Member Price: $ 199.00)
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Green Campus: Meeting the Challenge of Environmental Sustainability, The.
Author: edited by Walter Simpson
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 in its role as environmental stewards.
softcover, 361 pages, ISBN 1-890956-46-5, Item A762
$ 95.00 (Member Price: $ 55.00)
Date Published: 2008
Note: Chapters from Walter Simpson, David Orr, Tony Cortese, Jim Hansen, Nan Jenks-Jay, Brian Kermath, Will Toor, and others.
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Maintenance Staffing Guidelines for Educational Facilities.
Author: Matt Adams, Ron Calloway, Joseph C. Fisher, Jay W. Klingel, Eric R. Ness, Phillip R. Waier, Theodore J. Weidner
The third title in APPA's trilogy of staffing guidelines books. Contents include Maintenance of Buildings; Definitions & Assumptions; Stewardship Versus Service; Maintenance Versus Construction/Renovation/Alteration; Levels of Maintenance; Trades Descriptions; Zero-Based Staffing Buildup; and much more.
softcover, 236 pages, ISBN 0-913359-23-6, Item A743
$ 95.00 (Member Price: $ 75.00)
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Operational Guidelines for Grounds Management.
Author: Feliciani, Simpson, Gratto, Getz, DeStefano, Morrow, O'Donnell, Spengler, Payne, Fournier, Swartzell
A comprehensive guide to maintaining and managing your grounds and landscaping operation. Chapters discuss environmental stewardship, broadcast & zone maintenance, grounds staffing guidelines, contracted services, position descriptions, benchmarking, and environmental issues & laws. Seven appendices list software for grounds management, sample position descriptins, extensive glossary, directory of grounds magazines, list of professional organizations, cooperative extension service specialists, and bibliography for further reading.
softcover, 159 pages, ISBN 1-890956-20-1, Item A738
$ 95.00 (Member Price: $ 75.00)
Note: Published jointly by APPA, National Recreation and Park Association, and Professional Grounds Management Society, with a
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Buildings....The Gifts That Keep On Taking.
Author: Rodney Rose, with David A. Cain, Ph.D., James Dempsey, and Rich Schneider
Primary author Rodney Rose presents the oft-neglected considerations for the hidden costs and long-term management and maintenance of a facility built with donated money. Focusing on the concepts of Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), "Buildings…" is a timely, must-have tool for all educational facilities managers and other top university administrators.
softcover, 94 pages, ISBN 1-890956-38-4, Item A758
$ 82.00 (Member Price: $ 70.00)
Date Published: 2007
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Custodial Staffing Guidelines/CleanOpsStaff Package.
Author: APPA and Hunter Consulting & Training
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.
softcover, 260 pages, ISBN 0-890956-06-6, Item A727-P
$ 440.00 (Member Price: $ 350.00)
Date Published: Software 2008; Book 1998
Note: CleanOpsStaff may only be purchased as part of this package. You'll receive product code for the downloadable software.
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Planning and Managing the Campus Facilities Portfolio.
Author: Edited by William A. Daigneau, APPA Fellow
The campus and facilities of a college should be managed using the same principles as any other investment in an institution's financial portfolio. Stemming from the APPA/NACUBO Institute for Facilities Finance, this book addresses the totality of managing the facilities investment of an educational institution. Jointly published by APPA & the National Association of College & University Business Officers; supported in part by Sodexho USA.
softcover, 148 pages, ISBN 1-890956-27-9, Item A747
$ 50.00 (Member Price: $ 30.00)
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