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- the custodian’s role in student success,
- SOPs,
- APPA's Levels of Cleanliness (fully updated and expanded),
- contracting options,
- specialty areas,
- the mathematics of cleaning,
- staffing levels and worksheets allowing you to customize for your institution,
- onboarding,
- and much more!
[Print] Operational Guidelines for Educational Facilities: Custodial, 4th Edition
Filled with updated color charts, graphs, and case studies, this highly anticipated release of the updated and revised edition is now available.
Our popular guidelines assist in establishing comprehensive staffing levels and exposing the reader to best management practices across a wide variety of campuses.
Additionally, they address a wide spectrum of issues facing the custodial community today:
As an added bonus, this publication includes access to digital verisons of many of the charts and forms included in the book. They will be accessible via the APPA website once logged in.
Clearly, APPA's Custodial Guidelines is a resource no facilities department should be without!
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The 2023 Thought Leaders Report, Leadership Reimagined: Navigating the Higher Education Workplace provides leaders with information and tools to help them lead their employees through the continuing uncertainty with a focus on the workforce. We recognize that workforce issues are incredibly challenging and understand that an engaged and empowered workforce can find solutions to these overwhelming campus problems. This is truly an opportunity to shape the institution’s future and cement our role as well.
A major theme throughout the symposium and this report is the significance of leadership that now requires a shift in mindset. To develop a clear picture of the situation confronting leaders at colleges and universities, the Thought Leaders symposium began with a SWOT analysis, looking at the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats facing campus leaders.

* BULK [Digital Format] Operational Guidelines for Educational Facilities: Custodial 4th Edition
2022 Update Available Soon – Reserve your Prepublication Copy Now and Save 20%!
APPA has updated its third edition of Operational Guidelines for Educational Facilities: Maintenance, and it will be available soon in the APPA Bookstore.
Special prepublication offer: Reserve and prepay for your copy today and receive a 20% discount off the regular price. We will send you the book as soon as we receive it from our printer. This offer applies to both the hard copy book and the digital edition.
Note: this offer will apply only through Friday, March 25, 2022; thereafter, the price will revert to its regular rate.
- Prepublication rate (20% off; ends 3/25/2022): $71.20/APPA members; $96/nonmembers
- Regular pricing (as of 3/25/2022): $89/APPA members; $120/nonmembers
Filled with color charts, graphs, and case studies, the guidelines assist in creating staffing levels for your institution using APPA’s Levels of Maintenance, and exposing the reader to best management practices across a wide variety of campuses.
Additionally, the book addresses a wide spectrum of issues facing the maintenance community today such as outsourcing, maintenance of buildings, customer service, Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), sustainability, staff development, turnover of work (TOW), and managing a major interruption of basic services.
This book also provides real-world management examples of the impact and importance of technological enhancements within the facilities profession. It explores the evolution and broader implications and opportunities of integrated platforms, and the utilization of data and mega-data in identifying pending concerns, and their use in driving decisions and procedures to address them.
Be sure to update your library with this new must-have publication!
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Maintenance of Buildings
Chapter 2: Levels of Maintenance and Benchmarking
Chapter 3: Maintenance FTE Determination with Applied Case Studies
Chapter 4: Zero-Based Staffing Build-Up
Chapter 5: Survey Data with Statistical Methodology for Maintenance FTE Estimation
Chapter 6: Staff Development, Hiring, and Training
Chapter 7: Staffing Considerations for Auxiliaries and K-12
Chapter 8: Contracting and Partnerships
Chapter 9: Proactive Maintenance Implementation: From Fixing Problems to Optimizing Performance
Chapter 10: Reliability-Based Maintenance and Implementation
Chapter 11: Facilities Information Systems
Chapter 12: Customer Satisfaction and Public Relations
Chapter 13: Compliance and Safety
Chapter 14: Sustainability
Chapter 15: Turnover Work Group Practices
Chapter 16: Operations During a Crisis
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[Print] Operational Guidelines for Educational Facilities: Maintenance, 3rd Edition
Filled with color charts, graphs, and case studies, the guidelines assist in creating staffing levels for your institution using APPA’s Levels of Maintenance, and exposing the reader to best management practices across a wide variety of campuses.
Additionally, the book addresses a wide spectrum of issues facing the maintenance community today such as outsourcing, maintenance of buildings, customer service, Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), sustainability, staff development, turnover of work (TOW), and managing a major interruption of basic services.
This book also provides real-world management examples of the impact and importance of technological enhancements within the facilities profession. It explores the evolution and broader implications and opportunities of integrated platforms, and the utilization of data and mega-data in identifying pending concerns, and their use in driving decisions and procedures to address them.
As an added bonus, this publication includes access to digital versions of many of the charts and forms included in the book. They will be accessible via the APPA website once logged in.
Be sure to update your library with this new must-have publication!
![[Print] Operational Guidelines for Educational Facilities: Maintenance, 3rd Edition](../files//bookchapterimage/APPA_2020-Maint-Cover-lg72.for Bookstore. jpg.jpg)
This item is also available as:
A software/book package[Software] Maintenance Guidelines/MainOpsStaff Software Package
An online-only version[Digital Format] Operational Guidelines for Educational Facilities: Maintenance, 3rd Edition
[Print] Operational Guidelines for Educational Facilities: Grounds, 3rd Edition
Fully updated with current and vital information on staffing, service levels, and technological advances, while emphasizing sustainabilty, and using real-world examples you can use at YOUR facility!
As an added bonus, this publication includes access to digital versions of many of the charts and forms included in the book. They will be accessible via the APPA website once logged in.
![[Print] Operational Guidelines for Educational Facilities: Grounds, 3rd Edition](../files//bookchapterimage/Grounds Cover Bookstore.jpg)
This item is also available as:
A software/book package[Software] Grounds Guidelines/GroundsOpsStaff Package
An online-only version[Digital Format] Operational Guidelines for Educational Facilities: Grounds, 3rd Edition
[Digital Format] Operational Guidelines for Educational Facilities: Custodial, 4th Edition
Filled with updated color charts, graphs, and case studies, this highly anticipated release of the updated and revised edition is now available.
Our popular guidelines assist in establishing comprehensive staffing levels and exposing the reader to best management practices across a wide variety of campuses.
Additionally, they address a wide spectrum of issues facing the custodial community today:
As an added bonus, this publication includes access to digital versions of many of the charts and forms included in the book. They will be accessible via the APPA website once logged in.
Clearly, APPA's Custodial Guidelines is a resource no facilities department should be without!
![[Digital Format] Operational Guidelines for Educational Facilities: Custodial, 4th Edition](../files//bookchapterimage/Custodial Cover 4th Ed Bookstore1.jpg)
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This package includes all three books in the popular APPA trilogy, Operational Guidelines for Educational Facilities: Custodial, Grounds, and Maintenance. All have been fully revised and expanded and include numerous figures, graphics, glossaries, and additional resources. |
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