Maintenance Operational Guidelines for Educational Facilities (3rd Edition)

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Operational Guidelines for Educational Facilities: Maintenance, Third Edition, is a complete staffing and management framework for facilities maintenance — filled with color charts, graphs, and case studies to help you set staffing levels using APPA's Levels of Maintenance. Edited by J. Thomas Becker (Editor in Chief) and Theodore J. Weidner (Editor and Project Lead), it spans FTE determination, reliability-based maintenance, contracting and outsourcing, compliance, sustainability, crisis operations, and the use of integrated platforms and data to drive maintenance decisions. This purchase is the digital edition with supplemental materials.

✓Read online anytime — the full 356-page digital book, viewable in your browser through your APPA account

✓Bonus digital charts and forms — includes access to digital versions of many of the charts and forms found in the book

✓One-time purchase — access is tied to your personal appa.org account, with no subscription or renewal

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Want the complete set? The Operational Guidelines Trilogy bundles all three digital books — Custodial, Grounds, and Maintenance — with supplemental materials for each, at a package price. Get the Trilogy.

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Inside the Book

1. Maintenance of Buildings

2. Levels of Maintenance and Benchmarking

3. Maintenance FTE Determination with Applied Case Studies

4. Zero-Based Staffing Build-Up

5. Survey Data with Statistical Methodology for Maintenance FTE Estimation

6. Staff Development, Hiring, and Training

7. Staffing Considerations for Auxiliaries and K-12

8. Contracting and Partnerships

9. Proactive Maintenance Implementation: From Fixing Problems to Optimizing Performance

10. Reliability-Based Maintenance and Implementation

11. Facilities Information Systems

12. Customer Satisfaction and Public Relations

13. Compliance and Safety

14. Sustainability

15. Turnover Work Group Practices

16. Operations During a Crisis

356 pages · ISBN 978-0-913359-19-8 · Item A787-M · Published 2022. Digital books are read online through your APPA account and are not downloadable or printable. Prefer print? A softcover edition (book only — no digital materials) is available on Amazon.

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Non-Member Price: $126

Member Price: $94