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Facilities Manager | march/april 2014 | 53 read Sustainable Facility Management; The Facility Manager's Guide to Opti- mizing Building Performance by Hodges and Sekula. While this appears to be a sizable book, Sustainable Facility Management is well written and flows nicely from one chapter to the next. Initial concepts about sustainability are introduced and then followed by essential elements of implementation: leadership, strategies, metrics, and factors. The inputs and outputs of sustain- ability are discussed with a chapter that focuses on financial terms that the CFO might use rather than the terms the facility manager is familiar with. Presentation of these tools to convince others why different sustainability options may be recommended, are important for even the most seasoned facility officer. Another notable feature of Sustainable Facility Management are the references to sustainability organizations and docu- mentation outside the United States. International organizations like APPA need to have access to international standards to meet all member needs, and this book is a good start. National refer- ences cover all of APPA's members and strategic partners except South Africa's SRI, Japan, and Singapore. Regardless, it is a significant improvement over the North American centric systems most of us see. Finally, the authors utilize many of the other general techniques presented at APPA U to implement new or man- age existing initiatives including bal- anced scorecard, change management, and total cost of ownership, among others. This is a good, wide-ranging book, with tools that are not limited to sustainability alone. I plan to use it frequently in my work. Ted Weidner is president of Facility Asset Consulting, Noblesville, IN, and can be reached at ted@weidnerfac.com.