July/August 2022 • volume 38, number 4

Preparing for Every Future and a Culture of Continuous Learning

Preparing for Every Future: APPA’s New Governance Plan Aims for Strength, Agility, and Organizational Capacity

By Mark Crawford

Over the past decade, higher education has been dealing with rapid change at an ever-increasing rate. Regulatory issues, student debt, escalating costs, mounting expectations, international competition, technology, and declining student populations are hitting colleges and universities from all directions. Most recently, COVID-19 has been added to the mix, further depleting resources. Recognizing the pressing need […]

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APPA Launches Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Journey

By the APPA DEI Task Force on behalf of the APPA Board of Directors

Background and Charge As APPA continues to prepare for every future, the Board recognizes that it is time for APPA to formalize its past and current practice around equity and inclusiveness for the association. With the formation of a task force to focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), APPA demonstrates a sustained and comprehensive […]

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The Living Facilities Master Plan: Is It Possible?

By Cameron Christensen, CEFP, FMP

I have started to wonder something: Why do we engage in periodic facilities master planning efforts? The question is not why we do master plans. That is obvious. There are many important strategic reasons for doing these plans and they provide immense value to our institutions. The question is, why do we only do them […]

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The Impact of Color in the Built Environment

By Julie Braam, NCIDQ, IIDA, WELL AP, and John Campbell, AIA, RIBA, LEED AP

Color and the feelings it evokes have long played an integral role in designing innovative and engaging spaces. The strategic use and placement of warm and cool tones, coupled with complementary patterns and textures, creates opportunities to silently promote messages or elicit a certain emotion. Architecture and design firms are continuing to peel back the […]

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Reevaluating and Reimagining Building Assets

By Ross Smith

The construction industry is enduring its most significant challenges in a generation. Escalating costs and supply chain issues are crippling timelines and siphoning cash flow from carefully detailed capital improvement plans. As the industry continues to wrestle with these realities, it might do well to look at a promising alternative. A recent Fast Company article […]

From the Editor Jul/Aug 2022

By Steve Glazner

Facilities Digest Jul/Aug 2022

By Anita Dosik

The Bookshelf: Jul/Aug 2022

By Theodore J. Weidner, Ph.D., P.E., RA, NCARB, DBIA, CEFP

New Products Jul/Aug 2022

By Gerry Van Treeck

Membership Matters

One Business Partner’s Experience at APPA

By John Burke

Only one month before attending my first APPA Annual Conference in 2018, I accepted a position with a computerized maintenance management systems (CMMS) software provider called TMA Systems. After my first APPA experience, I felt reassured that TMA was a good fit for me and that APPA would prove to be critical to TMA’s success […]

Code Talkers

Decarbonizing the Built Environment

By David Handwork, P.E., CEFP

Energy management. Utility optimization. Sustainability. Environmental stewardship. Green operations. Net Zero Energy. Carbon neutrality. These topics have been integrated into facilities management operations for more than 40 years, starting during the energy crisis of the 1970s. Facilities professionals should have a solid understanding of the context and outcomes of these topics, but most of the […]

Facility Asset Management

Four Reasons to Use Cooperative Purchasing

By Jenny Holmes

When you find yourself in charge of making a big purchase for your schools, look to cooperative purchasing as a trusted resource. Today, public agencies are using cooperative purchasing twice as much as they did in 2010, and that number continues to grow. Why? Because purchasing is challenging, especially for those who do not […]

Technology + Trends

Finishing AV Projects: Ten Commissioning Tips for Facilities Managers

By Joseph Bocchiaro III, Ph.D., CStd, CTS-D, CTS-I, ISF-C

Facilities managers are aware of the commissioning process in buildings for a variety of architectural features, such as building envelopes, and for systems such as mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP). Much of this work over the last 20 years has also focused on sustainability and wellness commissioning, such as with Leadership in Energy and Environmental […]

Power Tools

Solar Energy and Smart Building Automation

By Magnus Asbo

Adding solar energy to a building’s energy mix is a crucial aspect in making a building more energy independent; however, it is only the first step. As the world is moving towards sustainability and energy independence, so too is building architecture beginning to change to incorporate these values. More frequently we are seeing net-zero buildings […]