Facility Maintenance

Maintaining and improving your facility

Four books on facility maintenance:

The first is a thorough overview of the entire subject, from hardware to security.

The second focuses specifically on the issue of facility maintenance operations.

The next deals with the "repair or replace" issues that all facility maintenance managers must face.

The last covers water quality issues.

Facility Maintenance -- The Facility Manager's Handbook

The Facility Manager's Handbook

This book deals with the essential elements of facility maintenance and management: electrical, plumbing, HVAC, lighting, allocating office and technical spaces, maintaining the grounds, facility security, and other areas.

It also deals with some of the intangibles of facility maintenance and management, such as buying and selling properties, indoor air environmental issues, emergency response preparedness, dealing with various government rules, and so on. It's heavily illustrated with photographs, graphs and tables.

For more information and web pricing, click here: The Facility Manager's Handbook

Facility Maintenance: Principles of Controlled Maintenance

Principles of Controlled Maintenance

You don't want to spend more than is truly necessary for facility maintenance. But you don't want to start falling behind on facility maintenance either. Here are one-step-at-a-time guidelines to help you improve your facility maintenance operations. It discusses how your work force can best be organized, dealing with the myriad problems of your equipment and supplies inventory, and ongoing facility inspection.

It also delves into the less-concrete issues: planning, scheduling and management. The whole book is organized to help the reader implement the suggestions one area at a time, and offers suggestions on customizing the approaches to suit the organization and size of your facilities management tasks.

For info and web pricing, click here: Principles of Controlled Maintenance

Facilities Maintenance: Handbook of Facility Assessment

Handbook of Facility Assessment

"Repair or replace?" All facilities maintenance managers deal with this question frequently. This useful guide gives you data and sources of information to help. It's a down-to-earth book that gives guidelines and information on how to evaluate the condition of the problem equipment. And how to avoid making expensive mistakes while arriving at the best solution.

The book takes you through the steps necessary to ensure a thorough evaluation of your choices, with lots of checklists to ensure critical factors aren't missed under the time pressures all facility maintenance managers work under. Most major building elements -- electrical, HVAC, etc. -- are given specific evaluation criteria.

For info and web pricing, click here: Handbook of Facility Assessment

Facility maintenance -- Water Quality Systems: A Guide for Facility Managers: Second Edition

Water Quality Systems: A Guide for Facility Managers: Second Edition

Here's a complete reference work to guide facility maintenance managers in the art and science of maintaining and improving your facility's water quality.

It discusses water quality issues from the hardware side -- designing, building, and maintaining the equipment -- and also related issues of governmental regulations, cost savings, ongoing facility maintenance programs and more.

For info and web pricing, see: Water Quality Systems: A Guide for Facility Managers: Second Edition

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