We saw first hand the aftermath of one of the greatest disasters in our history and stood with people of indomitable spirit dedicated to rebuilding their community and the schools within them.
All of us struggle with increasing responsibilities in our lives and the vastly inadequate time available to do them. The good news is that there are tools available that can help us become far more efficient and productive.
Successful disaster recovery depends on preventing or limiting the impact of disasters before they occur.
The Bureau of Indian Affairs uses a client-server system to keep track of the maintenance needs of its 7,465 buildings.
Is built-in school furniture becoming a thing of the past?
Effective safety requires that ability to periodically assess our safety and emergency preparedness measures in a critical manner.
Five important things to consider when selecting a moving company.
Making the most appropriate cabinet and casework buying decisions is more involved than many people would believe.
A brief review of HVAC measurements that are critical to efficient operation.
Schools, education, teaching and learning, as we define them today, will change dramatically within the next decade. The alignment of five powerful current issues will compel all in education to inspect the practices of the past and realign thinking for t
Make the best use of your available resources whether or not you use private consultants.
Are our employees working hard? Most definitely! Can they do just a little more in order to perform more work or increase their quality? Absolutely. It is our job to help them achieve these efficiencies.
The latest and the greatest, both inside and outside the walls, continues to evolve.
Education-related professionals talk about what is happening in the areas of planning, design, architecture, legislation, energy management and security.
A clean campus can be an institution's best marketing tool.
School facility professionals who apply for the Facilities Masters Award will gain valuable insight into how their facility operations programs compare to national standards for excellence.
Moving custodial services to the district level has proven to be a wise choice for Boyd County Schools. Within 60 days of implementing the program, we began receiving accolades from the teaching staff, letters of approval from the Health Department and po
School administrators often don't know what's right under their feet.
When a safety incient occurs at a school, there are almost always indications of poor supervision of people, places or things.
Before any school district builds new facilities, it should conduct a demographic study so that it has a reasonably accurate picture of the number of students who are going to be in the schools during the next five and 10 years, and of the overall trend (
The danger of building your budget for school construction upon short-term, as opposed to long-term, costs is not academic theory.