The range of challenges facing maintenance and engineering managers seems to grow more diverse and complex by the day. As a result, the search for strategies and tactics to effectively address them has taken more time and energy.
For anyone who needs proof of this evolution in institutional and commercial facilities, consider the diversity of issues that the contents of this interactive issue of Facility Maintenance Decisions offers managers:
This lineup also demonstrates the expanding role that maintenance and engineering challenges and decisions are having not just on facilities but on entire organizations and their core missions.
Managers looking for easy answers to their facilities challenges are not likely to find many. But managers open to new approaches to the increasingly complex landscape of facility challenges are apt to find strategies that benefit occupants and operations, as well as organizations.
Dan Hounsell is the senior editor of the facilities market.
