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What is the first thing you see when you drive alongside a major college or university campus? How about walking up to a massive hospital complex? Typically, the first thing that catches the eye of occupants and visitors is the organization's landscaped areas. With first impressions being extremely...

Are you nervous about specifying a vegetative roof? Does the thought of planting vegetation – and testing the waterproofing capabilities of your roof while irrigating those plants – make you cringe? You are not alone. Many facility professionals are hesitant to jump on the green roofs bandwagon...

Time is money. No group of professionals has come to realize that fact more than maintenance and engineering managers. With that thought in mind, welcome to myfacilitiesnet, a new social networking site for managers in commercial and institutional facilities. The idea behind this community is to build...

The dire condition of facilities in the District of Columbia (D.C.) Public School District is no secret. The district’s reliance on deferred maintenance and its lack of facilities planning has resulted in crumbling schools and plenty of negative attention in the media. But it appears the district...

Risk comes with the territory for professionals managing high-profile buildings. But that doesn’t mean maintenance and engineering managers still don’t get butterflies before undertaking huge renovation projects or mechanical-system retrofits. Jeffrey Plutz, director of engineering at the...

The April cover article in Maintenance Solutions magazine helped me better understand a harsh reality for managers in commercial and institutional facilities. Despite their knowledge of facilities and an understanding of what it takes to make building operations successful, maintenance and engineering...

I’m almost three years removed from my educational experience at the University of Minnesota. But the first time I saw the Twin Cities campus is still fresh in my memory. I signed up for a campus tour in the dead of winter – my first mistake – as a high school senior. We began our chilly...