Facility Maintenance Decisions
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Recent Articles

Feature - Career Path From Cleaner to Campus Leader: Vivi Tsarouhas’ Journey Through the RanksVivi Tsarouhas discusses starting as a school cleaner, advancing through multiple roles and building a career in facilities management.

Feature - Cover story How Cornell Manages a 1,000-Acre Campus With a Modern Grounds StrategyCornell University's strategic equipment planning and sustainability initiatives shape ground maintenance.

Feature - Security Be Clear with Alert Notification MessagingLayering communication technologies and clear, consistent messaging can help higher education facilities managers strengthen emergency notification systems.

Feature - Facilities in Focus How We Build the Next Facilities Management WorkforceReaching students in high school and even middle school is where real awareness of facilities management begins.

Feature - Facilities management Professor Study Seeking FMs, Technicians for InterviewsStudy looks at integrating facility management into the design phase of projects.

Feature - Security Safety Through Redundancy: Expanding Emergency Alerts on CampusThe University of Rhode Island adopted a multi-layered notification system tied to building requirements.

Feature - Grounds management Mowing Decisions That Make the Cut at Purdue UniversityPurdue University adapts to changing landscapes and mower technology advances in ensuring its landscape and turf make good first impressions.

Feature - Pest Management Effective Pest Prevention Starts OutdoorsPest problems rarely begin inside institutional and commercial facilities — they start outside.

Feature - Maintenance & Operations Conducting High-Level Building Inspections with Drone TechnologyTo ensure drone technology applications deliver the intended benefits for organizations, managers must ensure they understand key requirements of using the technology.

Feature - Poll What’s One Small Change You’ve Made to Your Field or Grounds that Had a Surprisingly Big Impact?The first impression isn’t always made when someone set foot inside a building – it starts the minute they walk onto the property.