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Friday, October 12 | 10:15 a.m.-11:00 a.m.

Preparing Successful Inclusive Leaders

Cecy Kuruvilla will continue to lecture on the keynote theme, Preparing Successful Inclusive Leaders in a special "educational session." She will facilitate a discussion of the importance of setting the stage for continued organizational success by developing leaders who embrace inclusivity. This is your opportunity to take a page from the playbook of one of the world's most successful corporate teams, Sodexho!

Friday, October 12 | 10:15 a.m.-11:00 a.m.

Our conference theme “Sustaining a Balanced Mission” refers to the need for the facility manager to modernize fundamental programs such as Staff Development and Resource Management while embracing technological change.

Sal Genito, Director of U.C. Davis, Building and Grounds Division, will discuss how his organization has made notable gains in all three areas. Anyone who can turn messy tree droppings into a university cash crop and deploy inexpensive GPS tracking devices to reduce the need to hire new staff, has got to be one of APPA's greatest innovators. Prepare to be astounded!

Friday, October 12 | 10:15 a.m.-11:00 a.m.

Building sticker shock on university campuses is as common as the I-Pod and cold pizza for breakfast. Campus construction costs confuse customers, confound chancellors, and create headaches for plant directors. "After all, you could build a new house for less than a modest higher ed building renovation." How do you explain it?

Don Guckert, from the University of Iowa catalogues the cost drivers that make higher education's classroom and laboratory buildings so expensive. Don's approach, which builds on an award-winning article in Facilities Manager, co-authored by Don and Jeri King, provides a rich source of information for the point-people who must "sell" campus construction project costs.

Friday, October 12 | 11:15 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Life-cycle management principles have been the under-pinning business strategy that has sustained successful equipment fleet operators, from airlines to hotel chains. But the value of this business process has not been widely accepted in higher education facility portfolio management.

Doug Christensen, former APPA president, has recently completed a seminal research project on the normalizing effect of life-cyle management on higher education's facility resource management challenge. Doug's work offers a very straightforward approach to inventory management, while providing a sound basis for setting annual campus renewal and construction goals.

Doug's Life-cycle Facility Management Study is one of APPA's foundational research papers in its launch of CFaR, The Center for Facilities Research. Doug's research has been captured in Rod Rose' new APPA text, Buildings: The Gifts that Keep On Taking.

Friday, October 12 | 11:15 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Can We Become Greener, Cleaner, and Leaner?

Over the past nine years, the University of New Mexico's custodial services organization has evolved from the standard, one-custodian-per-zone model to "team cleaning" and then to "green-team-cleaning." During this journey to sustainability, the business strategy changed to "cleaning for health first and cleaning for appearance second."

Dr. Gary Smith explains how his organization managed this radical change in focus and mehtods while preserving customer satisfaction and reducing cost. Learn how you too can become greener, cleaner, and leaner!

Friday, october 12 | 11:15 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Loss LEEDer

Whether during building design, construction, or commissioning, even small missteps can have disastrous consequences.

Carl Salas and Lucinda Andreani of Salas O'Brien Engineers, have courageously volunteered to enrich our conference with a presention on a new science building that was intended to be a LEED-certified project, but went very badly. You will hear why, where, and how the new science building failed to earn the intended LEED rating, and why the HVAC system required a $5 million, post-construction modification. This is a no-holds-barred, real-world assessment of what can go wrong, whether or not you are on the road to LEED certification.

Friday, October 12 | 1:30 p.m.-2:15 p.m.

The Charge of the Rate Brigade

One of the greatest business and public relations challenges we face is developing a reasonable shop rate for reimbursable work. If done well, most plant support activities can be marketed at a very competitive rate. But miscalculations lead to budget shortfalls or customer cost complaints.

Jeri King, a frequent contributor to APPA's expanding library of benchmark studies, has created a comprehensive review of shop rate do's and don'ts. Her winning formula for success in the sensitive reimbursement arena has been featured in Facilities Manager.

Friday, October 12 | 1:30 p.m.-2:15 p.m.

The Sustainable Campus Landscape

As institutions of higher education strive to balance economic growth with environmental stewardship and social well-being, the design and maintenance of the outdoor space can have a huge impact on the overall success of the sustainable campus initiative. Grounds maintenance activities are heavily dependent upon non-renewable energy, particularly pertroleum-based products. When landscape designs and installations create additional maintenance, by requiring more labor and carbon-intensive care, the potential environmental and economic benefits the outdoor space generates, are reduced or lost alltogether.

Dr. Smith will discuss several important aspects of the sustainable landscape—such as design and maintenance, efficient water use, integrated pest management, and the roles of trees and turf. The audience will learn how to effectively influence landscape design, increase water-use efficiency, decrease chemical use and labor, and establish guidelines for future decisions and operating procedures in a sustainable environment.

Friday, October 12 | 1:30 p.m.-2:15 p.m.

Every higher education campus in America is facing the challenges of recasting their facility master plans to assure a 'greener' more sustainable future. Stacy White has succeeded in proving that institutions can thrive by lowering life-cycle facility costs, and meeting demanding sustainability goals. If your institution is looking forward to lowering operating costs while becoming a greener campus, Stacy will send you home with some practical tips that can be incorporated into your master plan.

Friday, October 12 | 3:15 p.m.-4:00 p.m.

L.A. Confidential! (Shh! We're Green)

You must admire America's entrepreneurial spirt. The ink is still wet on the new LEED standards for Existing Buildings (LEED-EB), and the energy management consulting community has already invented a computer-based protocol for tracking changes in the "environmental performance" of your current building inventory.

John Ferris, from CSU-Los Angeles, is going to share with us his very positive experience with a consultant-provided LEED-EB portfolio program. He will also introduce a new building performance tracking system called Monitoring-Based Commissioning (MBCx). This presentation provides a roadmap for greening up your aging space inventory and producing the metrics that will verify the gains you have made.

Friday, October 12 | 3:15 p.m.-4:00 p.m.

The GridWise Initiative

Do you think the university's electric bill may go down in the future? Jack McGowan thinks it will. Jack is the Department of Energy's chair of the "GridWise" Architecture Council. He has the engineering expertise and proven foresight to predict the dawn of "E-energy", the emergence of integrated "smart" devices, both before and after the electrical meter.

Jack has already proven the viability of the concept on university buildings. He will make you non-techies conversant in the litany of the "self-healing" elecrtical distribution grid, and will prepare you to lead your university into the "GridWise Age", where untrapped savings can be yours, if you know how to access the DOE's emerging program.

Friday, October 12 | 3:15 p.m.-4:00 p.m.

Capturing Energy Savings Through Passive Design

Combining the wisdom of the northwest's native people with cutting-edge construction techniques, the University of Oregon has exceeded their greenest expectations. Captured natural light and sequestered solar heat gain, combined with a new "night flush" air management system, have yielded extraordinary savings while meeting building occupant comfort expectations.

Presenters Ken Duffy, and G.Z. Charlie Brown, will share with us the design successes that have been acclaimed in the Wall Street Journal, and in Metropolis, and Solar Today magazines.

Saturday, October 13 | 9:30 a.m.-10:30 a.m.

The Impact of Buildings on Global Warming

For the past several years, we have been inundated with global warming messages. Depending on the author, the intensity of the warnings vary from "wear more sunscreen" to "start building an ark." Only a few pundits have offered a roadmap for arresting our environmental drift. Generally, experts have been silent in the role facility portfolio managers could and should play in correcting the causes of global warming. All except Edward Mazria.

For the past several years, Edward Mazria, principal of the architectural consulting firm, Mazria, Inc., has been a leader in translating the unfathomable complexities of manmade climate change into terms and actionable issues that related directly to facility designers, maintainers, and operators. Ed's riveting keynote address will reveal the primary contributors to global warnings (Is it SUVs, power plants, or buildings?). And, he will inspire you to join the fight. His presentation has received international praise and has been heralded by the A.I.A. as a "must see."

Saturday, October 13 | 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

The Impact of Facilities on Recruitment and Retention of Students

Saturday, October 13 | 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Reducing Your Carbon Footprint

"Reducing your Carbon Footprint" is the new mantra in the struggle to combat global warming. The challenge for higher education facility managers is to find practical, executable solutions that will bring appropriate credit to your institution. Cal State University-San Bernardino, has blazed a carbon trail for all to follow. With the help of DMJM Harris Energy and Power, the San Bernardino facility management team racked up significant, documentable carbon reductions while enhancing the university's reputation as a socially responsible member of the community. This case study provides a roadmap for Physical Plant organizations who want to be viewed as community team players and problem solvers in a carbon-sensitive world.

Saturday, October 13 | 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Small College Seminar

Before the popular television show "Survivor" hit the airwaves, the art of living on insects and sympathy was perfected by the facility managers at small colleges and prep schools. At our Albuquerque conference, we are devoting a special seminar to a facilitated discussion on the special challenges faced by APPA's small school adventures. The focus of the seminar is to review the facility management skillset required to survive in a resource-limited environment.

The presenter and seminar facilitator, John Christensen, will also lead a discussion in the special APPA resources available to small school facility directors. John's agenda includes the development of updated list of suggested member services for APPA's small school facility staff. Large school facility directors and staff members who want to sharpen their "survival skills" are also invited.

Saturday, october 13 | 1:30 p.m.-2:30 p.m.

Building a Culture That Recruits, Retains,
and Rewards Facilities Personnel

Before becoming the Human Resources director for one of the southwest's most successful engineering consulting firms, Henry Johnstone spent over a decade on university campuses developing and implementing utility master development plans. During his years of higher educational field work, Henry developed a keen appreciation for the leadership efforts and resulting work cultures that sustained very successful campus facility management organizations.

In his RMA-PCAPPA presentation, Henry Johnstone does a superb job of demonstrating how the staff development lessons-learned in the for-profit engineering consulting marketplace apply to higher education's facility management workplace.

Mr. Johnstone is joined by Cloriza Lomeli, his firm's Business Development officer. Ms. Lomeli will explain how GLHN has incorporated emphasis on personal and professional growth and the "connectivity of self-awareness" to build a strong team of professionals.

Saturday, October 13 | 1:30 p.m.-2:30 p.m.

Presenting Campus Building Renewal and New Construction to a Skeptical Legislature

For those educational facility professionals who have not had the pleasure of guiding a capital request through a State Legislative session, it is akin to a cellulous mouse being chased through hell by an asbestos cat.

Bob Simonton explains how he succeeded in selling higher education's needs to skeptical legislators in the world's toughest marketing venue—your state capitol. Don't miss this one!

Saturday, October 13 | 1:30 p.m.-2:30 p.m.

Advances in Computer-Aided Capital Asset Management

As we have leapt from flip-ups to iPhones and from CRT's to plasma screens, don't think the asset management software engineers have been standing still.

Advances in building condition software and computer-based modeling techniques are offering capital asset managers a blinding new array of tools for assessing needs and defending asset renewal investments. If you are comfortable with your current capital asset management software and forecasting strategies, you are probably already out-of-date. Tom Friedman's "World is Flat" because it was run over by software engineers like Trip Tripathi and Paul Ira. Count on this presentation to update your resource management tool kit.

Saturday, October 13 | 3:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.

Up Against the Wall! (Building Envelop)

While education programs at regional conferences usual focus on broad management themes, some construction problems are so pervasive that we owe our members an opportunity to become better informed on technical issues. Despite advances in technlogy, and the quest for more sustainable buildings, leakage through masonry building envelopes continue to plague campus buildings. From Tucson to Tacoma, water seepage into below-grade libraries and laboratories is a problem that seems to defy solution.

We have invited Alan Burnett and Serge Zilli from Gale Associates, Inc., to give us a national perspective on this vexing problem. All those who have never had a building envelop problem are excused from attending.

Saturday, October 13 | 3:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.

The Coil Wars

The last time we tried to clean the heat exchanger coil in a university office building we left footprints on the president's desk and killed his Ficus with hot chemical runoff. In order to avoid embarrassing collateral damage, most facility maintenance organizations have wisely placed office, lab, and classroom fan coil units on the "run-it-until-it-fails list. Thanks to advances in technology, and the work of an inventive chemical treatment supplier, you can now squeeze extra years of service and much higher efficiency out of individual room heat transfer equipment. The data suggests that the improved efficiency will quickly offset the cost of new, safe cleaning methods while creating nearterm reductions in energy consumption. This is more than a nuts, bolts, and pipe show! This presentation will give you the payback data and the program information you will need to "green up" a routinely neglected element of older HVAC systems. Come and watch a spirited debate between co-presenters.

Saturday, October 13 | 3:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.

While most "Green Campus" initiatives focus on "sustainable" construction techniques, and the introduction of renewable materials, the University of British Columbia has taken sustainability to a new level. UBC's low impact approach to capital asset management features the recycling and re-greening of entire buildings, in lieu of more costly new construction. The British Columbia initiative has been such an economic, social, and sustainability success that it is on its way to becoming an international facility management benchmark program. Cost savings compared to new construction have been so remarkable that every third building is literally free!