2017
REGIONAL
REPORTS
FACILITIES MANAGER JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2018 1
MAKING THE
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Outsourcing FM: Is It the Right
Move for Your Institution?
By Mark Crawford
With the nonstop pressure to reduce costs, an increasing number
of educational institutions are outsourcing facilities management to
private-sector firms, the greatest worry is losing control and doing
serious damage to mission, customer service, and the institutional
brand.
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Facilities Budgets: Issues with
Recovery and Recharge in Higher
Education
By Glen Haubold and David Reynolds, P.E.
is article studies how recovery and recharge billing are
used, and the issues and challenges involved—particularly
in times of constrained and reduced budgets. e goal is to
broaden knowledge about chargebacks, and the advantages and
disadvantages associated with different budgetary models of
recapturing costs.
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The Economics of Facilities
Management
By Chris Hodges
e day-to-day challenge of managing facilities keeps us locked
into a tactical view of how our organizations fund facilities and
how that money is spent. Instead, we need to address how funding
decisions are made, and what the motivations are behind those
decisions.
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2017 Regional Reports
Our annual round-up of highlights from APPA's six
regional conferences of 2017.
january/february 2018 • volume 34 number 1
features
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