APPA Advisors

APPA Advisors provide assessment, advising, analytic, developmental, and strategic services to assist institutions in leveraging their physical assets, enhancing the student experience, building organizational capacity, developing their human capital, and extracting higher value and better outcomes from their investments in facilities construction, operations, renewal, and modernization. APPA Advisors provide assessments that are tailored, customized, and scaled to address organizational and institutional challenges.

APPA Advisors offer an unmatched depth and breadth of industry expertise on operational best practices, successful innovative solutions, effective organizational design, comprehensive benchmarking, and strategic planning approaches to provide evaluations, solutions, and guidance tailored to the challenges facing your organization and institution.

The scope of our services generally aligns to one or more of three major categories of interest:

• Organizational Effectiveness
• Organizational Readiness
• Organizational Development

Facilities Management Evaluation Program (FMEP)

APPA’s Facilities Management Evaluation Program (FMEP) provides institutions with a comprehensive evaluation conducted by a team of institutional peers and based on a prescribed set of performance criteria. Institutions receive a written report consisting of feedback and recommended actions which are personalized to each institution and designed to help transform participating educational facilities programs into those worthy of international recognition.

The FMEP Program is conducted in four stages. First, the institution’s facilities team undertakes a self-evaluation, using criteria established by APPA. Afterwards, an onsite evaluation team is organized by APPA which meets with the facilities organization at the institution. While onsite, the evaluation team summarizes its findings in an oral report which it provides to the facilities organization to substantiate its findings and gain clarification. Finally, after the onsite evaluation and oral report, the evaluation team produces a final written report which is then delivered to the institution. Every FMEP conducted by APPA is customized and tailored to the specific institution for which it is conducted. Evaluation teams of experienced senior facilities officers are carefully hand-picked by APPA to conduct each onsite FMEP evaluation. Care is taken to ensure that the evaluation team is comprised of a select group of peers from campuses with similar educational, financial, and physical characteristics.

Mission

• Identify and confirm needed resources for your facilities organization
• Place your organization on track to achieve continuous quality improvement
• Identify a path towards excellence for your entire facilities team
• Establish a strategic planning tool
• Exceed customer expectations

Recognition of Your Achievement – APPA Award for Excellence in Facilities Management

Once you have completed the FMEP and followed the recommendations of the team, we invite your institution to submit and apply for the Award for Excellence in Facilities Management – the highest institutional honor, recognizing outstanding achievement in educational facilities management. View in greater detail the process of receiving this prestigious honor.

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