Here's how one small school district schedules preventive maintenance.
Whether it's mow and blow or a little more complicated, landscapes demand constant attention. Grounds professionals speak up about what it takes to stay in the green.
Integrating the right signage into your campus can aid in building identity and marketing for use in the wider community.
Articles about improving school restrooms too often miss one big point.
Something called Building Information Modeling offers a new and better way to manage maintenance.
Cost-effective and efficient maintenance and housekeeping operations begin at the programming and design stages of residence hall construction projects.
Thoughts about the silent consumption of energy on campus.
Wesleyan University’s student-designed permaculture garden blooms to life.
It takes more than a title to make someone a leader.
Being organized and planning ahead can improve the bottom line.
Keeping historically significant facilities weatherproof and energy-efficient while preserving architectural features takes care and planning.
In March, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) released a revised Hazard Communication Standard that requires employers to train any employees who work with hazardous chemicals to use newly designed hazardous material labels and materi
Given that an investment in a LEED building is 40 to 50 years or longer, a related investment in management and maintenance will also run for many decades. Unfortunately, maintenance is often not adequately considered in advance, and when budgets tighten, deferring building maintenance can seem like an attractive option to universities who are trying to stretch their dollars. So how does a cash-strapped public institution pay for green construction and maintenance?
If you want to clean for health and do it well instead of winging it and hoping for the best, there's a lot of help available. No person, whether a student, but especially an employee such as a teacher or administrator, deserves a 30-year career in a clean environment.
Two successful managers share their advice for taking your custodial services from better to best in terms of getting the job done and keeping the customer satisfied.
With the importance of higher education on the rise and enrollment continuing to climb, we will continue to need new and upgraded spaces. We will also need to set aside dollars to maintain the new facilities that we build, otherwise our investments will be squandered. Then there are all of those “other” buildings… the ones originally built in the 1920s, added on to in the ’50s, ’70s, ’90s, and so on. The truth is that a majority of our educational facilities in this country are approaching the half-century mark and are in major need of maintenance and repair!
A plan for maintenance and repair should be an integral part of every school budget, and must not be the item to be cut when money is tight. Not performing routine maintenance costs districts many times over.
What happens when school roofing challenges are caused by an act of Mother Nature? Well, because her fickle mood ranges anywhere from slightly irritated to downright angry, the best way to protect a roof is to maintain the upper hand.