This manual shows HVAC&R system designers how to participate effectively on design teams, from the earliest stages of the project through the resulting structure’s construction, operation, maintenance, and eventual demolition. It also includes: • LEED guidance for mechanical engineers (new chapter) • Indoor and outdoor effects of building systems on the local environment (new chapter) • Design techniques of related technical disciplines, such as plumbing and lighting • The interaction and influence between mechanical and electrical systems and architectural design

The purpose of this Guideline is to describe the Commissioning Process capable of verifying that a facility and its systems meet the Owner’s Project Requirements. The procedures, methods, and documentation requirements in this guideline describe each phase of the project delivery and the associated Commissioning Processes from pre-design through occupancy and operation, without regard to specific elements, assemblies, or systems, and provide the following: (a) overview of Commissioning Process activities, (b) description of each phase’s processes, (c) requirements for acceptance of each phase, (d) requirements for documentation of each phase, and (e) requirements for training of operation and maintenance personnel. These Commissioning Process guideline procedures include the Total Building Commissioning Process (TBCxP) as defined by National Institute of Building Sciences (NIBS) in its Commissioning Process Guideline 0.

The internationally recognized standard for IAQ defines the requirements for ventilation and air-cleaning system design, installation, commissioning, and operation and maintenance for all spaces intended for human occupancy except single-family houses, some multifamily structures, vehicles, and aircraft. This latest edition updates Standard 62.1-2004 and clarifies analysis of dehumidification. It has exceptions to the 65% RH limit and the requirements net-positive intake-airflow. It provides additional information for several occupancy categories, includes a new Appendix summarizing the documentation requirements in the standard, and presents proper design requirements for buildings that contain both ETS and ETS-free zones.

The internationally recognized standard for IAQ defines the requirements for ventilation and air-cleaning system design, installation, commissioning, and operation and maintenance for all spaces intended for human occupancy except single-family houses, some multifamily structures, vehicles, and aircraft. This latest edition updates Standard 62.1-2004 and clarifies analysis of dehumidification. It has exceptions to the 65% RH limit and the requirements net-positive intake-airflow. It provides additional information for several occupancy categories, includes a new Appendix summarizing the documentation requirements in the standard, and presents proper design requirements for buildings that contain both ETS and ETS-free zones.

Polish people skills, energize your outlook, and retain a healthy perspective. This course will help you stay positive and focused in today's busy, pressure-filled world. Recognize how attitude affects your work. Use the eight attitude-adjustment techniques. Spread the magic of a positive attitude. (Crisp Publication)

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

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.  APPA member institutions receive access to the BOK as part of their membership at no additional cost.  Your subscription allows BOK access to anyone in your organization. Download the current table of contents.

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.

The Campus Investment Package includes:

• Strategic Capital Development: The New Model for Campus Investment;
• Buildings...The Gifts That Keep on Taking: A Framework for Integrated Decision Making;
• Planning & Managing the Campus Facilities Portfolio;
• Charting a New Course for Campus Renewal; and
• The Facilities Audit: A Process for Improving Facilities Conditions.

Fourth revised edition includes bibliographic citations for books and articles on facilities management and planning, specific campus building types, higher education history and administration, and more.

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.

A collection of 50 essays and articles written for Facilities Manager magazine and several regional and departmental newsletters. Author Val Peterson is a Past APPA President who worked as a facilities professional for more than 30 years. These short pieces each touch on an important aspect of communication for your personal and professional life. Major sections include Communication is the Key, The Key to Customer Service, Key Tips for Facilities Professionals, The Key to Leadership and Change, and The Key to Survival: Humor. Peterson's articles are interesting, funny, and most importantly, useful.

Offers an objective framework for deciding how best to operate any campus function. The book emphasizes the questions administrators should ask and the analysis they should perform to determine whether self-operation, contract management, or some combination will offer the best opportunities for meeting the institution's goals and objectives. Published by APPA for the Council of Higher Education Management Associations.

Provides decision-makers with practical information on how to work with outside contractors in the facilities area. Topics include make-or-buy competitive procurement, partnering for successful service contracting, moving from contracted to in-house operations, and case studies on painting, custodial, and grounds. The authors provide sample specs and contracts and offer real-world advice on the opportunities and pitfalls of privatization.

Downloadable PDF file of Chapter 17 of Facilities Management: A Manual for Plant Administration, third edition.

Customer service means different things to different people. On an educational campus, facilities officers deal with myriad constituent groups, including faculty, staff, students, parents, and members of the community. This book, written by well-known experts in the educational facilities profession, offers plenty of tips and insights into making the customer connection.

This is a fully updated and revised software application that supplements APPA's popular publication, Operational Guidelines for Educational Facilities: Custodial, third edition.  CleanOpsStaff-3ed includes the five APPA Appearance Levels, 33 standard room categories, custodial data in cleanable square feet (csf), and much more.  The software is network-enabled, allowing real-time file sharing.  CleanOpsStaff-3ed performs all the calculations of the Operational Guidelines: Custodial publication, generates reports, generates audit package with LEED Existing Building EQ credits calculation.  In addition, you can export reports and other data to Excel, Word, or PowerPoint.  This purchase includes the book and a Product Code for activation of the software, as well as 60 days of tech support from the software developer.

This landmark study provides the full report of the 1988 APPA/NACUBO survey of capital renewal & deferred maintenance needs at U.S. colleges and universities.

Downloadable PDF file of Chapter 4 of Facilities Management: A Manual for Plant Administration, third edition.

This all-in-one study guide for contracting professionals contains valuable exam preparation material that can be applied to any state in the country. Newly revised, this book is ideal for helping readers prepare for and pass the certified general and residential contractor licensing exams – on the first attempt! Comprehensive coverage is also extremely useful to those preparing to take the master builder licensing exam. Valuable information on site plans, excavation, framework, concrete, masonry, framing, steel construction, and more makes this the most all-inclusive contractor’s licensing and certification guide available.

This unique and easy-to-understand pocket guide was developed by a real-world contractor who has perfected the art of construction estimating! The DEWALT Construction Estimating Professional Reference is the only resource individuals need for learning to successfully bid on a variety of construction projects. Chock-full of practical advice based on the author’s real-life experience in bidding countless construction jobs, this essential reference explores such key topics as forms and checklists, subcontractors and suppliers, procedures, trade evaluation, costs, profit, and overheads, and much more!

All of the essential safety requirements for construction job sites across the US are brought together into this one, single-volume resource for industry professionals. More than 350 pages of OSHA-compliant reference material gives readers total access to critical safety information as it applies to scaffolding, ladders, fall protection, protective equipment, electricity, working in trenches, demolition, and much more. Information is featured for everything that contractors, service technicians, maintenance personnel, plant managers, engineers, designers, and architects need to know about OSHA. Effective safety plans and sample forms are also included, making this the number one pocket reference for safety and OSHA-related regulations.

This outstanding “answer book” is the perfect professional reference for questions concerning basic building disciplines. The DEWALT® Construction Professional Reference features at-a-glance information on hardware sizing, correct nailing patterns, walls and flooring, doors and door openings, roof pitches, stairway stringers, steel, excavation, masonry, and much more! With illustrative diagrams and construction documents for use on the jobsite, this valuable reference is sure to be an effective tool from the configuration of a job to its conclusion.

The most comprehensive contractor’s forms and letters reference available comes with an accompanying CD that allows users to easily and effectively manage every area of their contracting business! This extraordinary CD resource contains a user-friendly interface in which all of the forms and letters are easy to find and utilize in both Microsoft Word and Excel formats. Together, the book and CD provide over 150 of the most useful forms and letters available on topics such as general company and staff communications, customer correspondence, accounting notices, and more!

This helpful pocket reference guide for the data and voice industry is the only one of its kind for the design, installation, testing, and troubleshooting of teledata, computer, video, and other cabling applications. This thoroughly revised and updated edition includes CAT 6 cabling in addition to graphs, tables, diagrams and charts involving LAN, RING and other types of networking, ethernet, fiberoptic, internet and much more.

An absolute must-have for anyone working with residential electrical systems, the DEWALT Electrical Code Reference will provide users with 80 pages of illustrated code requirements, violations, and installation concerns. Based on the National Electrical Code® 2008, this book covers everything from branch circuits to panel board wiring to conductor ampacity tables and more. With a compact format that fits perfectly in a toolbox and a quick-reference format that makes important information easy to find, this book is the perfect job site companion. And because it is updated to reflect the very latest industry standards, this is the ultimate reference for electrical installations.

Mechanical estimators, building contractors, and technical trade contractors alike will benefit from the straightforward, must-know HVAC estimating information that this book provides. The DEWALT® HVAC Estimating Professional Reference guides readers through each step of the HVAC bidding process, beginning with identifying potential business opportunities, and progressing to estimating, conducting cost analysis, reviewing contracts, and finally, to closing the deal. On-site worksheets, “Getting the Job” tips, and math shortcuts offer additional tools, making this a concise yet comprehensive resource for anyone preparing to bid for an HVAC job.

With regards to various aspects of installation, service, testing, and balancing, the DEWALT® HVAC Professional Reference is the number one pocket reference guide for the HVAC industry. Comprehensive coverage includes compressors, duct sizing, heat transmission conversion factors, temperature and pressure, fans, air velocities, refrigeration characteristics, thermostats, and much more. Compact but powerful, this handy pocket reference helps service technicians become experts on the job!

The DEWALT® Lighting and Maintenance Professional Reference is a two-part reference guide. Part one covers the design, selection, and installation of lighting systems for residential, commercial, and industrial applications. Part two references valuable electrical and general maintenance material including safety issues so important on the job today. Comprehensive coverage progresses from an examination of lighting and lamps, HIDs, fluorescents, and incandescents to electrical maintenance, meters and testing, motor maintenance, power transmission, and, finally, communication systems.

Based on the 2006 International Plumbing Code® and authored by an industry leader in contractor education, the DEWALT Plumbing Code Reference is a must-have for novice and experienced plumbers alike. With 80 pages of illustrated code requirements, violations, and installation concerns, the book covers everything from materials, water heaters, and bathrooms, to backflow, isometrics, and trenching. Ideal for anyone required to work with plumbing systems or at home do-it-yourselfers, this resource will provide the critical information needed to get the job done right - the first time.

Designed to provide plumbing professionals with the knowledge and tools to make successful bids, this book is the perfect pocket guide for on-the-job success. The DEWALT® Plumbing Estimating Professional Reference addresses every step of the bidding process, from preparing proposals and making accurate estimates of supplies and man-hours, to reviewing contracts and finalizing the deal. With quantity take-off checklists, estimating forms, and other on-site worksheets, this book is a valuable reference tool, both for use in preparing a bid from the office, or in making on-the-job decisions and calculations.

Get the advantage you need to prepare for and pass the Plumbing Licensing Exam! This "must have" guidebook offers the most complete exam prep information available for use by plumbing professionals in every state of the nation. Based upon the 2006 International Plumbing Code®, this expansive resource covers the journeyman, apprentice, master, and contractor licensing exams, as well as ICC Certification. Readers are given access to all aspects of the plumbing industry, from general theory to common construction management philosophies. Test-taking strategies, exam prep guidelines, exam rules and regulations, and realistic sample exams are all highlighted.

The DEWALT Residential Remodeling & Repair Professional Reference contains the essential facts and figures for almost every aspect of residential construction and residential remodeling available. In it you will find valuable information on door framing and finishing, paint and caulking applications, walls and finishing, roofing and siding, telephone and cable TV wiring, fastener weights and strengths, rope strength, saw blades, and much, much more. Supportive wiring diagrams, plumbing diagrams, and concrete and masonry diagrams provide the added clarity readers need to succeed both at home and on the job.

The number one pocket dictionary for the construction industry is here! This illustrated dictionary of the most common construction terms features Spanish and English definitions listed by trade as well as alphabetically! By far the easiest-to-use reference available, the DEWALT® Illustrated Spanish/English Construction Dictionary boasts more than 200 illustrations that augment definitions and phrases relating to such important topics as employment, concrete and masonry, site work and demolition, construction safety and tools, carpentry and structural work, and much more.

The DEWALT® Wiring Diagrams Professional Reference is a must for anyone who installs or replaces electrical wiring. Filled with hundreds of diagrams and illustrations that are clear and easy to find, this handy pocket-guide covers everything from outlets, switches, lighting, motors, and controls to power distribution, transformers, grounding, low voltage, and hazardous locations. Basic wiring guidelines and specifications are also included to make this book as valuable a tool on-the-job as a pair of wire cutters.

Downloadable PDF file of Chapter 10 of Facilities Management: A Manual for Plant Administration, third edition. The manual is the primary text for APPA’s popular Institute for Facilities Management.

This second edition of Environmental Compliance Assistance Guide for Colleges and Universities updates the key environmental rules and regulations affecting physical surroundings of our campuses. Facilities and campus safety professional can use this comprehensive guide to assist them in meeting current environmental regulation requirements.  Covers the following regulations:

• Clean Air Act (CAA)
• Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA)
• Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA)
• Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA)
• Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)
• Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA)
• Toxic Substance Control Act (TSCA)
• and much more

This classic handbook guides you step-by-step through all phases of your own facilities condition inspection and helps you assess the functional performance of your buildings and infrastructure. In addition, the book will help you quantify maintenance deficiences, summarize inspection results, and present the audit findings for improved funding for capital renewal.

Facilities committees help shape the physical character of their institutions by ensuring that their campuses are functional, attractive, and well maintained. Author Harvey H. Kaiser explains how facilities committees can help develop effective facilities policies and practices and ensure that the necessary infrastructure is in place for academic, residential, extracurricular, and co-curricular programs and services.  Includes chapters on the purpose and role of the committee, responsibilities, composition, and tips for effective facilities committees.  Published as part of AGB's Effective Committee Series.

Facility Management Shared Services: The Balance Between In-House Services and Outsourcing focuses on the symbiotic and collaborative relationships and partnerships are working with outsourced contracted services. This book will help to:

• better define a shared service model between in-house and outsourced facility services;
• increase understanding of how to optimize the value of shared services; and
• forecast future outsourcing trends based on current practices. Includes interviews with facilities professionals using both in-house services and outsourcing, research findings, recommendations, and questionnaires to use in gauging the needs of your own facility.

A Study of Facilities Conditions at U.S. Colleges and Universities. A follow-up to The Decaying American Campus, A Foundation to Uphold reexamines the huge backlog ($26 billion) of accumulated deferred maintenance (ADM) needs at U.S. campuses. Includes the complete text of the survey report, policy implications, comprehensive breakdown of the findings by Carnegie classification, an examination of current construction and renovation on campuses, a construction/renovation report, the impact of ADA, and how officials can begin to address the threat of ADM. Survey results are illustrated through charts, graphs, and tables, and a list of the participating institutions in included. A cooperative effort by APPA, NACUBO, and Sallie Mae.

Written by professionals with years of architecture, engineering, building management, and commissioning expertise, this book will help you understand and organize the entire PD&C process. Chapters cover pre-design planning, architect/facilities manager conflicts, building costs, timing and schedules, partnering and team building, commissioning, and more.

This is the updated software application that supplements APPA's popular publication, Operational Guidelines for Educational Facilities: Grounds, second edition.  GroundsOpsStaff-2ed includes the five APPA Appearance Levels, the six standard grounds areas, worksheets for grounds inventory data in multiple units of measure, and much more.  
     The software allows you to easily run calculations on your grounds staffing data and helps you justify your human and funding resources for your campus' landscape operation.  GroundsOpsStaff is network-enabled, allowing real-time file sharing.  GroundsOpsStaff-2ed performs all the calculations of the Operational Guidelines: Grounds publication, generates reports, and generates audit package.  In addition, you can export reports and other data to Excel, Word, or PowerPoint.
     Your purchase includes a copy of the Operational Guidelines: Grounds publication, a Product Code for software activation, and 60 days of tech support provided by the software developer.
 

Downloadable PDF file of Chapter 31 of Facilities Management: A Manual for Plant Administration, third edition.

Downloadable file. In the most comprehensive study to date, the authors collected data from more than 16,000 college students from 46 institutions in the U.S. and Canada. They found a distinct, important relationship between student satisfaction, choice of institution, and the condition of facilities.

The Leadership Package contains the following:

• Leadership at Your Fingertips: Proven Ways to Handle Your Challenges;
• Communication is the Key;
• Leadership in Educational Facilities Administration; and
• Field Notes: Commentaries on Leadership and Facilities Management.

The objective of this book is to provide information that will help a reader understand the qualities that make people leaders, and then teach basic leadership skills that can be applied in the work place. The emphasis is on women and the book addresses unique challenges and opportunities women leaders face. (Crisp Publication)

This powerful new book benefits all personnel in an organization regardless of their leadership position.  Discussing the fear caused by tightened budgets, the anxiety surrounding the need to pick up new computer or technological skills, or simply the need to maintain a high level of trust and constant willful communication, Lighting Your Own Fuse addresses an entire gamut of subjects that pertain to our world.  Written with wit, and creatively packaged in the form of a glossary, it is an important and timely read.  Author Mac Macdonald has been a speaker at various APPA conferences, and he has gleaned useful quotes and material from APPA members and presentations. 

This book from SciTech Publishing takes on the trends of downsizing, outsourcing, and reengineering in facilities maintenance and management. The author argues the case for “building up” in-house staff and services and argues that strong, positive facilities professionals will win the confidence and approval of upper management by nurturing talent from within.

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!

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!
 

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

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.

The Outsourcing Package includes the following:

• Facility Management Shared Services: The Balance Between In-House Services and Outsourcing;
• Contract Management or Self-Operation: A Decision-Making Guide for Higher Education;
• Contracting for Facilities Services; and
• Contracting for Services (article).

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 Sodexo USA.

Provides the reader with discussions of why master planning is important, the types of master planning, and the ways to implement a successful effort. You will also learn how to prepare to do a master plan, determine objectives and who to involve, administer all aspects of the plan, and select master planning consultants.

Learn how to manage a project from the idea stage through implementation. This step-by-step plan includes timelines, schedules, and follow-up exercises to help you conceive, define, plan, implement, complete, and evaluate projects and communicate effectively.

Downloadable PDF file of Chapter 67 of Facilities Management: A Manual for Plant Administration, third edition.

This resourceful anthology from SCUP aims to provide new insights and strategic planning tools for occupants and planners alike. Facilities and academic planners, architects, and anyone interested in the impact of special spaces on the campus learning environment will find this book to be a valuable resource.  Drawn from articles published in Planning for Higher Education.

These 12 chapters from facilities PDC experts offer the tools you can use to build your reputation as educational facilities professionals. They will help you frame your technical successes as you demonstrate your stewardship of your campus facilities.

The second edition of APPA's self-assessment and continuous improvement tool was fully revised and expanded in 2001. The authors discuss how SAM concepts and performance indicators are organized within the Balanced Scorecard structure and how they utilize the Baldrige Quality Award criteria. Also new to the second edition are eight case studies from schools around the world on how SAM is implemented and used as a benchmark for successful facilities management. The appendices provide a glossary, references and the SAM surveys

An expanded, book-length edition of SCUP's journal, Planning for Higher Education. Reviews all aspects of sustainability and green building design, and will help you shape policies and practices that mitigate or overcome deficiencies and impacts uncovered through assessment.

Introduction by William D. Middleton

• Building a Foundation for Excellence
• Jump-Starting Participatory Management
• Visioning: Management Fad or Proven Concept?
• The Successful Executive Search
• Job Descriptions and the Changing American Workplace
• Managing Cultural Diversity
• Sexual Harrassment: Problems and Solutions

This report stems from APPA's first annual Thought Leaders summit, sponsored by Carter & Burgess, Inc. A group of 21 educational leaders identified seven trends affecting higher education's future and report on the Top Ten Critical Facilities Issues.

Includes the top facilities issues.

Two of the most important issues facing higher education in the next decade are changing demographics and growing demands for accountability. Demographic shifts will affect both the student population and the workforce, and universities need to respond to the demands of new generations and ethnic groups. At the same time, the call for accountability in higher education only continues to grow.

The 2009 Thought Leaders Symposium, sponsored in part by Haley & Aldrich, Inc., and with sponsorship assistance from Delta Controls, focused on the specific topics of environmental sustainability and energy, as seen through the prism of the economy. Included are resources and discussions on the identified top ten critical facilities issues: 1. Adjusting to the new sustainability reality 2. Developing an institutional vision of sustainability 3. Creating a leadership role in addressing sustainability 4. Confronting economic challenges 5. Fixing broken budget models 6. Managing rising energy costs and energy volatility 7. Engaging the campus to address energy challenges 8. Managing space 9. Prioritizing renewal needs 10. Meeting the challenges of workforce development

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