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Training + Technology: The Cure for Facility Retirement Woes

Many facility maintenance teams will say goodbye to key staff members due to retirement in the next 5 years, according to an ARC Facilities LinkedIn poll conducted by David Trask, National Director – ARC Facilities....

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  • Jack Rubinger
  • 03 Dec 00:00
WEATHER FACILITY MAINTENANCE TIPS
COLD WEATHER FACILITY MAINTENANCE TIPS

Now that the turkey, sweet potatoes, and other holiday foodstuffs have been consumed, it’s a good time to look at how we can best maintain our facilities during the cold weather that’s been hitting parts of the country....

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  • Jack Rubinger
  • 30 Nov 00:00
Arcfacilities
Shannon Prince-Thomas
At the intersection of people, projects, and facilities

Shannon Prince-Thomas, Account Director at Cushman & Wakefield, is responsible for overseeing project management to support tenants through facility management, about 1.7 million square feet in Pleasanton, California....

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  • Jack Rubinger
  • 03 Nov 00:00
Arcfacilities
Accomplished, Opinionated, Out There
A Profile of Carolyn McGary

Carolyn McGary, known throughout the industry as a Wonder Woman of Facility Management is a woman of many hats: facility/project manager, consultant, author, educator, mentor, student, and overall zealot for the profession of facility management....

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  • Jack Rubinger
  • 27 Oct 00:00
Arcfacilities
University of Georgia Facility Innovation, Diversity, Collaboration
A profile of Kimberly J. Thomas

Kimberly J. Thomas, Facilities Management Division, Senior Director of Services, leads a team of 700 facility professionals at The University of Georgia. UGA is the flagship institution for the state and was chartered in 1785. Thomas and her team have a lot of ground to cover and are kept extremely busy, but we managed to squeeze in a great conversation that also covered a lot of ground – everything from how to encourage more women to pursue facility management as a career, how retirement is impacting facility operations, best ways to handle emergencies, and more....

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  • Jack Rubinger
  • 04 Oct 00:00
Arcfacilities
Robyn Pacini Hits It Out of the Ballpark

How many know what equipment is hidden in the crawl spaces of Fenway Park? As a new facilities coordinator, Robyn Pacini was assigned the challenging task of documenting, servicing, and maintaining...

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  • Jack Rubinger
  • 19 Aug 00:00
Arcfacilities
Gain Control of Construction
Project Documentation

Whether you’re the facility manager for a university campus founded in the 1700s or a mid-century community hospital,...

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  • Jack Rubinger
  • 06 Aug 00:00
Hands on Information for Facilities Teams
Keys to School Emergency Preparedness

Schools and school districts are complex, complicated, and conspicuous with their presence in local communities. Everyone knows their local elementary school, middle school, high school – even if your kids are grown. That visibility makes schools vulnerable to the full gamut of incidents from active shootings to natural disasters to burst water pipes and power outages....

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  • ARC Facilities
  • 04 Aug 00:00
Arcfacilities
Sustaining Growth, Fostering Safety, Doing Good for the People

With $650M in bond construction programs, Kelle' Lynch McMahon and her team of 15 facility staff and consultants are helping manage the growth of the Fremont Unified School District in Fremont, California. Fremont Unified School District serves 32,000 students in grades K-12....

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  • Jack Rubinger
  • 22 Jul 00:00
One Good Turn Deserves Another:
Find Shut-offs Fast

As if you don’t already have enough on your plate, knowing the locations of your facility’s gas, water main, water isolation valves and med gas valve is more difficult than it sounds. Renovations, the number of years you’ve been on the job and the vastness of some campuses all contribute to the difficulty of finding these devices – coupled with the unavailability of location documentation. In facility emergencies, often times, the first thing that needs to be addressed are shut-offs....

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  • ARC Facilities
  • 19 May 00:00
Arcfacilities
After a year-long lockdown, Spring is here.
Time to explore different opportunities.

Whether you are looking for an O&M manual for the air handler or the 1986 remodel plans for the nursing station or even the emergency evacuation plan we seem to be doing the same thing -- walking back to the document storage room. We know the information is there, somewhere....

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  • Suri Suriyakumar
  • 06 May 00:00
Arcfacilities
Retirement Redux for Facility Managers

Facilities knowledge is as much technical as it is physical or industrial. Requirements for building engineers have never been greater as equipment grows increasingly more sophisticated, but the clock is sped up with the creeping up of retirement....

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  • David Trask
  • 30 Mar 00:00