Kristin Witters in APPA Online Community 537 APPA Thought Leaders Report Now Available!Visit our bookstore to download the latest Thought Leaders Report.
Jonathan Thomas in APPA Online Community 545 Help Needed In The Providence, RI, AreaWe (Building Maintenance Optimization Consultants headquartered in Atlanta, GA) are looking for at least two individuals to work on a full-time temporary assignment, on a contract basis, located in the Providence, RI, area. We are ...More
Brian Heller in APPA Online Community 534 In person APPA gatheringsHi Everyone, I'm part of the MNAPPA board and we are debating on starting up in person activities or events. So far comparing notes we aren't quite ready yet. We are hopeful we can start in person activities back up some ...More
Carly Mischke in APPA Online Community 458 Low Occupancy and Wastewater Line FailuresI'm interested in any other institutions experiencing cast iron waste water line failures after a year of low occupancy - are you? If not, did you have a robust water flushing protocol in place? We have a significant number of failures pres ...More
James VanDokkumburg in APPA Online Community 461 Commuter College weekend building checksHello APPA members, with a special shout out to commuter campus community colleges....!! At GRCC, we have four campuses that are busy weekdays Monday-Friday, day and night (pre-covid), and we have some events on the weekends. But, ...More
Helena Robinson in APPA Online Community 5924 Project Management SoftwareGood Morning APPA Community, What is an efficient but reasonable priced construction software you use on a university level to get all parties in a campus construction project involved and accountable? We currently have TMA and it ...More
Daniel Wooten in APPA Online Community 580 Net Zero Emissions / Sustainability I'm looking for Net Zero Emissions / Sustainability information or existing plans your organization may have in place.
[Deleted] in APPA Online Community 852 100% Online Master of Science Degree in Facility ManagementI am not sure how many of you or your folks were able to make our virtual information session on the new University of Texas at San Antonio 100% Online Master of Science degree in Facility Management, but I am including a link to the presentation if ...More
[Deleted] in APPA Online Community 530 Labor utilization rateI maintain a labor utilization rate metric for O&M and Building Services. Do any of you keep similar metrics? Also, do you compare your calculated rate with a standard such as average annual utilization rate for colleges i ...More
Jeff Loss in APPA Online Community 8231 Custodial Work SchedulesWe are receiving feedback from one or two members of the campus community that we should be hiring more custodians on off shifts as this is viewed as them having unimpeded access to administrative and academic spaces to perform their duties. The thou ...More
