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A Few Words Go a Long Way

Building a culture of trust starts with a shared vocabulary of simple—yet powerful—phrases that leaders use to say thanks, show empathy, and provide support. Relationships of trust are rooted in understanding. Leaders who engage team members with compassion and gratitude encourage them to mutually invest in the teams and the clients they collectively serve. When […]

Infrastructure Law’s Potential Benefits for Higher Education

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 […]

IoT Technology Makes Life Easier for Campus Facility Managers

Internet of Things (IoT) technology is a game changer for facility managers facing the unique challenges of maintaining the complex array of residential halls, labs, libraries, classroom buildings, and dining halls that comprise a campus. IoT-empowered sensor technology can assist facilities managers monitor buildings for vulnerabilities to water damage and changes in humidity and temperature, […]

Lab Technologies Can Create Healthy Buildings Campus-Wide in a Post-COVID World

The era of “healthy buildings” has arrived. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, building owners increasingly recognized the bottom-line benefits of implementing measures to optimize indoor air quality (IAQ) and other critical environmental measures. While COVID may not have created this trend, it has certainly given it high-profile momentum. The requirements for creating healthy buildings are […]

Six Ways Facilities Managers Provide Leadership during COVID-19

The call for amplified health and safety measures across schools and workplaces during the COVID-19 pandemic has revolutionized the role of the facility manager. Prior to the pandemic, facilities management functioned as an invisible operation—one that was often viewed as a reactive cost center rather than a proactive leadership arm of an organization. But the […]

Technology Offers Facilities Managers O&M Transparency

“Seeing is believing,” as the old saying goes—but these days, it’s much more than that. In the realm of facilities management, new visual documentation technologies are giving managers important new tools to ensure proper maintenance of expensive systems. It’s difficult to understand how useful a visual intelligence tool can be until facilities managers see it […]

The Case for the Circular Economy in Campus Facilities and Procurement

The circular economy is a new economic system that delivers better outcomes for people and the environment. Business models, products, and materials are designed to increase use and reuse, replicating the balance of the natural world, where nothing becomes waste and everything has value. A circular economy, increasingly built on renewable energy and materials, is […]

University of Georgia’s Facility Innovation, Diversity, Collaboration

Kimberly J. Thomas, senior director of services in the Facilities Management Division (FMD), leads a team of 700 facility professionals at the University of Georgia. UGA is the flagship institution for the state and was chartered in 1785.  There are 465 campus buildings at Athens’ locations, with 300 residence-instruction facilities maintained by FMD on over 760 […]

We’ve Fallen Down on Our Assets

You know the list. It is a mile long and incomplete. When it comes up during your leadership meetings, you sink in your seat, nod in dismissive agreement about the hole your organization is in, and choose to allow this thought to rush out of your mind as you proceed to the next pressing challenge. […]