Author: FM College Admin

In a very short period of time, our economy has changed. Now more than ever, it’s important to consider new and viable approaches to how we all do business. One potential opportunity is adaptive reuse, specifically reusing empty big-box retail and malls, many of which sit unused or underutilized across the country. After the 2008…

Carolyn McGary, a self-proclaimed Wonder Woman of FM with nearly 20 years of experience, is an educator and the national director of FM Pipeline Team Inc. The nonprofit organization is dedicated to fostering the next generation of facilities managers and helping fill the FM talent gap. McGary joined the FM Pipeline Team as co-director shortly…

The Partner Alliance for Safer Schools (PASS) K–12 guidelines recommends a multilayered approach to safe school design. This approach improves the overall effectiveness of a full security plan by providing multiple time barriers to delay violent intruders and creating redundancies should an aspect of one layer fail for any reason. In addition to creating layers…

Mold should always be on top of managers’ minds. Hospitals and other healthcare facilities have the much-earned reputation of being a clean and safe place for patients and residents to come to every single day. If something is out of place, it can easily tarnish everything that the facility has worked hard for and potentially…

It’s almost that time of year again when schools reopen and are flooded with traffic, trampling over floors during all sorts of weather. The summer provides custodial staff with some of the time they need to get floors back in shape and ready for the next school year. In fact, it’s estimated that 50 per…

Keeping hospitals and other healthcare facilities clean is a crucial patient care and risk management issue. Since less laborious practices for soil removal are always attractive, the danger exists that traditional cleaning methods are forgotten or ignored. Few studies have examined detergent-based processes or modelled these processes against healthcare-associated infection (HAI) risks for different patient…