Longer-term cost containment tactics
Working with Academic Leaders to Maximize Space Utilization
Implement best practices in working with academic leaders to maximize space utilization and inflect behavior change
Compendium of Design and Construction Tactics to Minimize Total Cost of Ownership
Review our compendium of design and construction tactics to minimize total cost of ownership
Pursue proven energy- and cost-saving strategies through the following levers: commissioning, recommissioning, retrofits, and continuous commissioning
Optimizing Outsourcing Arrangements in Facilities Study
Consider opportunities to outsource parts of your facilities function—or optimize an existing outsourcing relationship
Optimizing Your Facilities Outsourcing Arrangement Roadmap
See our four-step process for developing more effective outsourcing arrangements to help reduce costs and increase levels of service
Shift the Balance from Reactive to Preventative Maintenance
Implement best practices to eliminate common timesinks and reprioritize critical preventive maintenance tasks
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Improve Preventative Maintenance Performance
Follow this roadmap for strategies on how to reduce the deferred maintenance backlog and invest in and expand preventative maintenance programs
Launching In-House Talent Development Programs in Facilities Management
Use this step-by-step guide to reduce maintenance recruitment costs over time and increase staff productivity
Capital Renewal Funding Playbook
Evaluate 10 executive-level lessons and 100 strategies for funding capital renewal to reduce your deferred maintenance backlog and enhance the capital planning process
Navigating Public-Private Partnerships
Review 10 imperatives to effectively evaluate, plan, and implement successful public-private partnerships, as well as case studies of universities’ P3 projects
Enhance Your Capital Planning Process
Learn how to improve transparency in capital project prioritization to ensure investment in projects that best support broader institutional priorities
Capital Project Planning Toolkit
Use this tool to quickly generate more accurate capital project cost estimates to help evaluate different options, or as a model for developing a campus-specific construction cost calculator
How to minimize future lab reconfigurations with flexible, space-efficient layouts
Review tactics to minimize future lab reconfigurations with flexible, space-efficient layouts
Prototyping new campus spaces doesn’t have to be complicated. Here’s your two-step process
Implement prototyping processes in space planning to ensure space design and equipment aligns with stakeholder needs
Learn how Bowling Green State University effectively aligned classroom inventory with curriculum needs to streamline deferred maintenance and reduce campus size
Increasing Central Fungible Dollars
Consult our efficiency cheat sheets for auxiliary operations (bookstore, housing, dining, and parking) to increase efficiency and grow operations
