Facility Design and Management Handbook

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A new paradigm in facility management

A unique, just-in-time resource from profession leader Eric Teicholz, Facility Design and Management Handbook empowers you to make your facility state of the art. Packed with tips from U.S. and international case studies from government, health care, retail, finance, manufacturing, and academia, this guide gives you access to theproductivity tools, technologies, and stratagems that have revolutionized the field in the last five years, helping you to:
Find the best, most cost-effective solutions for issues from "greenness" and sustainability to disaster recovery and technology integration
Use new tools for space and asset allocation, project management, process coordination, and systems integration
Improve accuracy in financial forecasting, budgeting, architectural and interior design planning, and market research
Create cost-effective "smart" buildings with state-of-the art security, energy management, lighting strategies, and maintenance efficiency
Discover innovative solutions for human resources needs
Integrate the Internet into your management program
Automate nearly all your tasks for major productivity gains
Apply benchmarking standards and other measurements that demonstrate and assure facility management productivity

Accompanying time-saving, efficiency-boosting CD-ROM is loaded with sample documents--from budgets, schedules, plans to cost-benefit analyses, checklists, forms and audits; standards for communications and database, integration, building and construction, CAD conventions; Web links and other resources.

Eric Teicholz is president and founder of Graphic Systems, Inc., of Cambridge, Massachusetts, which specializes in all aspects of facilities management, including automation consulting, systems integration, market research, and training. He has specialized in facilities design and management for 25 years. A contributing editor of Facilities Design & Management, Mr. Teicholz lectures internationally, and has published hundreds of articles and nine books. He received his postgraduate degree in architecture from Harvard, where he has taught in the Graduate School of Design and served as co-director of the Laboratory for Computer Graphics and Spatial Analysis. He has written two other books for McGraw-Hill, Computer-Aided Facility Management and CAD/CAM Handbook.