Maggie Kinnaman is an APPA Emeritus Member, APPA Fellow, and Past APPA President. In this article she provides helpful tips for completing the APPA Facilities Performance Indicators (FPI) survey for 2013, which closed on December 16, 2013. She began by calling attention to some enhancements that have been added this past year, and encouraged…

Recreation administrators have had to evolve their approach to managing areas and facilities as both financial and environmental resources have become more limited. One way that administrators have attempted to meet such challenges is through strategies that are more environmentally sustainable. The following article addresses the importance of…

To formulate a "systems-based" plan to address the PK-12 infrastructure crisis, in 2016, the 21st Century School Fund (21CSF) and the University of California-Berkeley's Center for Cities + Schools (CC+S), in partnership with the National Council on School Facilities and the Center for Green Schools at the U.S. Green Building Council,…

Presents examples of the effective use of building management technology to avoid reaching diminishing returns. Examples illustrate facility management technology uses for facility surveying, renovations, and master planning. (GR)

The M.I.T. INSITE (INstitutional Space Inventory TEchniques) system, a management information system developed specifically to provide facilities management information for decision making in the planning stages, is described. Since 1973, M.I.T. has shared the INSITE technology with a consortium of users from academic, health care, corporate and…

Academic leaders and governing boards are increasingly aware of the importance and difficulty in managing physical plants as finite resources. In addition, the finances needed to renovate or build facilities have become severely constrained. The National Science Foundation (2000), in its survey of research facilities, suggests that research space…