July 09, 2009


American School & University | Facilities Management

Green Cleaning: A Green Launch 

By Stephen Ashkin

Four steps will help a school or university launch a sustainability program or improve an existing one....

More Schools M&O data 

Additional information from the 38th Annual Maintenance & Operations Cost Study for Schools and Colleges, including the number of students, total M&O expenditure, amount spent annually on energy (gas, electricity and other fuels), number of buildings, amount spent annually on transportation, and amount spent annually on custodial and maintenance supplies by responding school districts....

More Colleges M&O data 

Additional information from the 38th Annual Maintenance & Operations Cost Study for Schools and Colleges, including the mean FTE enrollment of survey respondents, total M&O expenditure, square feet maintained per custodian, square feet maintained per maintenance worker, square feet of building maintained per student, amount spent annually on energy (gas, electricity and other fuels), and number of motor vehicles by responding colleges....

38th Annual Maintenance & Operations Cost Study for Colleges 

By Joe Agron (jagron@asumag.com)

The nation's colleges are feeling the pinch of the economic downturn, and maintenance and operations budgets especially are under pressure....

38th Annual Maintenance & Operations Cost Study for Schools 

By Joe Agron (jagron@asumag.com)

Despite the worst economic environment in generations, spending by K-12 institutions on maintenance and operations held its own — defying historical trends that have shown M&O spending among the most affected in times of budget tightening....

Green Cleaning: On Schedule 

By Stephen Ashkin

How does a four-day work week affect the environment? A few ways: drastic reductions in crude-oil imports, greenhouse-gas emissions, employee exposure to pollutants, traffic congestion and auto accidents....

Median amount of square feet and acreage maintained 

Additional information from the 38th Annual Maintenance & Operations Cost Study for Schools and Colleges, including square feet maintained per full-time custodial worker, square feet maintained per full-time maintenance worker, acres maintained per full-time grounds worker, square feet maintained per building, and square feet of building maintained per student....

Salary data for custodial and maintenance personnel 

Additional information from the 38th Annual Maintenance & Operations Cost Study for Schools and Colleges, including the median salary for custodial and maintenance personnel at school districts....

Number of full-time maintenance, custodial and grounds staff 

Additional information from the 38th Annual Maintenance & Operations Cost Study for Schools and Colleges, including the mean number of full-time custodial, maintenance and grounds personnel at school districts....

Median amount of square feet and acreage maintained 

Additional information from the 38th Annual Maintenance & Operations Cost Study for Schools and Colleges, including square feet of buidings maintained per student, square feet maintained per custodial employee, square feet maintained per maintenance employee, acres maintained per grounds employee, and total reported maintenance & operations budget....

M&O salaries and number of employees 

Additional information from the 38th Annual Maintenance & Operations Cost Study for Schools and Colleges, including the median M&O salaries and number of employees at colleges...

Median square footage of building maintained per FTE student 

Additional information from the 38th Annual Maintenance & Operations Cost Study for Schools and Colleges, including the amount of square feet of building maintained per full-time-equivalent (FTE) student at colleges over the past decade (in median square feet)....

Sights Unseen 

By Robert M. Brandon and Arthur A. Spruch

With effective materials-management plans, education institutions can embrace the concept of "the invisible campus."...

Balancing Act 

By Mike Kennedy

10 key concepts that administrators and planners must consider as they build, maintain, manage and improve education facilities. ...

Garnering Support 

By Douglas W. Kincaid, Eric T. Dillinger and Michael Clayton

Education institutions can benefit from a modeling approach to facility budgeting....

Coming Up Short: 35th Annual M&O Cost Study 

By Joe Agron

Maintenance and operations spending by school districts continues to hover around historic lows, even as facility needs escalate....

A Positive Move: 12th Annual College M&O Cost Study 

By Joe Agron

Colleges increase maintenance and operations spending as a percentage of total budget in the current school year....

Know-How: Maintenance 

By Mike Kennedy

Schools can be recognized for managing maintenance programs effectively....

Ensuring the Future 

By Stephen P. Ashkin

Improving the school environment for students can provide a noticeable return on investment....

FEASIBILITY STUDY 

Q: Can you give us some suggestions on assembling a feasibility study for putting an elementary school on our campus? submitted by Stephen F. Austin State...

Inside: Maintenance 

The state's maintenance role; Maintenance scams lead to prison; Grade is better, but not good...

Solutions Center: Maintenance 

Q&A about green maintenance ...

Challenging Times: 34th Annual M&O Cost Study 

By Joe Agron

As school district budgets remain under pressure, maintenance and operations spending continues to suffer....

Steady Spending: 11th Annual College M&O Cost Study 

By Joe Agron

Colleges continue to allocate a larger percentage of their budget to M&O than their school district counterparts....

Solutions Center: Facility Inventory 

Facilities Inventory question...

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The Subtle Stuff

Vikas Nagardeolekar and Edwin Merritt

It's hard to win passage of a school construction bond — whether through a citizen referendum or the vote of a town council or general town meeting.

Hear and Now

Michael McKeon and Lincoln Berry

When acoustics are mentioned with regard to schools, many people first think of performing arts.

Making it Readable

Peter Gisolfi

When my daughter was 10 years old, she left the comfort of her elementary school for the unfamiliar territory of the middle/high school building — a crazy quilt of pieces from the 1910s, 1930s, 1960s and 1970s.

Echo Boom Impact

Phillipe Dordai and Joseph Rizzo

Like their baby-boomer parents, the echo-boom generation is reshaping the college and university landscape.

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