Building Operating Management: Half Full -

Building Operating Management: Half Full -: "Half Full

By Ed Sullivan

Even facility executives who have the best relations with top management have frustrations. Access to senior managers does not ensure adequate funding or support for important initiatives."

GSA - CAD Standards

GSA - CAD Standards: "CAD Standards
PBS Buildings and Real Estate Services employ specialized information technologies to create designs, prepare construction drawings, manage drawings, and track space."

Features Item: Facility Management Layers: The Next Generation of CAD Standards

Features Item: Facility Management Layers: The Next Generation of CAD Standards: "Facility Management Layers: The Next Generation of CAD Standards"

Staff Alternatives in Outsourcing

APPA: "Increasingly, institutional facilities managers are evaluating the option of outsourcing one or more of their service centers. However, 'sourcing' of any one department (custodial, grounds, preventive maintenance) is still viewed as a difficult process"

International Facility Management Association

International Facility Management Association: "Business continuity planning - a strategic facility management function"
Pat Moore
Increasing industry and government regulations addressing protection of an organization's assets and continuity of operations have increased the need for facility, security, environmental health and safety, and loss control professionals to ensure that their organizations have well-designed and practiced business service continuity plans in place."

Web-Based Software provides enterprise energy management. - Power Measurement Ltd.

Web-Based Software provides enterprise energy management. - Power Measurement Ltd.: "Web-Based Software provides enterprise energy management. Optimized for commercial office and retail properties, ION EEM features browser-based dashboard, which delivers information for facility managers to make informed energy decisions in real-time. It automatically collects meter data and continuously analyzes, aggregates, normalizes, and reports enterprise-wide consumption for electricity and all other utilities. Trend-analysis functions compare consumption and costs over time by location, building or process."

AutomatedBuildings.com Article - Facility Management made better, faster, and cheaper for the customer

AutomatedBuildings.com Article - Facility Management made better, faster, and cheaper for the customer: "Providing better, faster, and cheaper solutions is a great benefit offered in the world of Facility Management today. Consulting and systems integration firms that focus on facilities and document management information technology solutions are able to provide their customers with better, faster, and cheaper solutions through the focus of different Facility Management processes."

FacilitiesNet: Secrets of CAFM Success

FacilitiesNet: Secrets of CAFM Success: "Many times, facility executives interested in a computer-aided facilities management (CAFM) system begin by contacting a software dealer. There's a better choice. CAFM systems vary in design, capabilities, features and options, so careful consideration of organizational needs, objectives and processes not software should be the starting point."

Netsupport News : New Asset Management Software Offers Educators Cost Containment Tool

Netsupport News : New Asset Management Software Offers Educators Cost Containment Tool: " New Asset Management Software Offers Educators Cost Containment Tool
New Asset Management Software from NetSupport Offers Educators a Multi-function, Easy-to-use Cost Containment Tool

ALPHARETTA, GA, November 20, 2003 - According to the Stamford, CT-based research firm Gartner, Inc., IT asset management will rank as one of the top five priorities for CIOs through 2006. Until now, however, tools for inventorying and managing IT assets have remained beyond the budget of most schools and universities. With the release of NetSupport DNA, Dynamic Network Administration software, IT professionals at such organizations have an affordable, easy-to-use system for keeping IT costs in check."