All entries for February 2016
Posted by Yasmin Parsloe on Friday Feb 19, 2016 11:14 am
 The Education Facilities Management Forum offers limited complimentary registration to the Directors & VPs of Facilities at educational facilities. Registration includes a personalized event itinerary of one-on-one networking and seminars, meals and refreshments, a gala dinner and casino night. All meals and refreshments are included along with overnight accommodation at the Westin Park Central in Dallas, Texas. To register, click here.
How Dashboard Style Interfaces & System Analytics Are Increasing Operational Efficiency & Reducing Energy Costs
Learn about new tools in the building automation industry and how they have provided stake holders from the boardroom to the boiler room with the means to increase their understanding of how building assets are serving their organization and a method of managing and implementing reductions in energy usage and operational costs.
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Sustainable Materials in Restrooms, Locker Rooms & Other Applications
Credits: 1 AIA Hour & 1 USGBC Hour
This seminar takes an indepth look at the sustainable materials in restrooms and locker rooms.
- Gain an understanding of how High Density Polyethylene (HDPE) reduces environmental impact and ways it offers both initial and long term improvements to the indoor air quality of any project.
- Hear several examples of how responsible manufacture is a critical part of any product's life cycle assessment.
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Get Out of Construction Management Hell
This seminar helps facilities managers and owners finish projects under budget and ahead of schedule. Not to mention, helping them mitigate risk and protect their projects from litigation. MySmartPlans listened to the pleas of owners and facilities managers and found a solution to the headaches associated with managing and accessing project information. These issues include: Operations and Maintenance manuals, Warranty Information, Records, Drawings, Closeouts, submittals, plan rooms, and much more. Facilities Management now has a way to productively manage projects from bid phase to closeout for the next 50 years. This seminar takes client testimonials and turns them into relative stories and pain points that any construction audience can learn from.
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What We Need Is A Plan: School Security Gets Smarter
Learn how to:
- Develop a sound, scalable security master plan
- Assess threats
- Manage and use the safety & security technology available and then make it work for you
- Gain a brief & entertaining look at trending technologies in three markets: industrial security, cyber security and consumer electronics/commercial technologies
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Tips for Achieving Capital Forecasting Success
Every part of your campus or facility will need repair or replacement at some point in the future. These projects can range anywhere from small work orders to multimillion dollar contracts. Learn about:
- Long-range capital planning for capital decision making with confidence
- Discuss the fundamentals of capital forecasting and the correlation between facility condition, asset life and student performance along with tips on how to improve your organization's efficiency and pull reports.
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Mass Notification & Emergency Communications - When Seconds Matter
From catastrophic natural disasters to the threats college students face, there has been a heightened demand for effective, multi-layered emergency communications. This session will cover:
- Integrated and interoperable Mass Notification platforms
- Provide the perfect solution to instantly communicate to everyone – anytime, anywhere
- Mass Notification Systems & their ability to send alerts and potentially life-saving instructions to unlimited communication devices, including voice sirens, indoor and outdoor speakers, digital display signage, text messaging, voice calls, desktop alerts, and email notifications.
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Crisis Management & Planning for the Mobile Age
As professionals in the education and healthcare industries, your top priority is the safety of students, faculty, and staff. This seminar teaches:
- How to streamline emergency response
- How to keep your action plans relevant
- Compares efficacy of paper safety plans versus mobile safety plans
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A Case Study for Energy Management in Today's Education Environments
Energy management is essential for today's Healthcare and Education facility engineers and managers and presents an unparalleled opportunity for financial, operational, and environmental building performance enhancement. This workshop presents:
- An overview of current innovative practices in energy management
- An indepth look at a Case Study examining energy management strategies and the actual energy efficiency results of a data/software management system at the Educational and Healthcare Facilities at Thomas Jefferson University.
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Posted by Yasmin Parsloe on Wednesday Feb 17, 2016 4:05 pm
The Education & Healthcare Security Forum offers limited complimentary registration to the Directors & VPs of Security at healthcare and educational facilities. Registration includes a personalized event itinerary of one-on-one networking and seminars, meals and refreshments, a gala dinner and casino night. All meals and refreshments are included along with overnight accommodation at the Westin Park Central in Dallas, Texas. To register, click here.
How Dashboard Style Interfaces & System Analytics Are Increasing Operational Efficiency & Reducing Energy Costs
Learn about new tools in the building automation industry and how they have provided stake holders from the boardroom to the boiler room with the means to increase their understanding of how building assets are serving their organization and a method of managing and implementing reductions in energy usage and operational costs.
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Sustainable Materials in Restrooms, Locker Rooms & Other Applications
Credits: 1 AIA Hour & 1 USGBC Hour
This seminar takes an indepth look at the sustainable materials in restrooms and locker rooms.
- Gain an understanding of how High Density Polyethylene (HDPE) reduces environmental impact and ways it offers both initial and long term improvements to the indoor air quality of any project.
- Hear several examples of how responsible manufacture is a critical part of any product's life cycle assessment.
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Get Out of Construction Management Hell
This seminar helps facilities managers and owners finish projects under budget and ahead of schedule. Not to mention, helping them mitigate risk and protect their projects from litigation. MySmartPlans listened to the pleas of owners and facilities managers and found a solution to the headaches associated with managing and accessing project information. These issues include: Operations and Maintenance manuals, Warranty Information, Records, Drawings, Closeouts, submittals, plan rooms, and much more. Facilities Management now has a way to productively manage projects from bid phase to closeout for the next 50 years. This seminar takes client testimonials and turns them into relative stories and pain points that any construction audience can learn from.
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What We Need Is A Plan: School Security Gets Smarter
Learn how to:
- Develop a sound, scalable security master plan
- Assess threats
- Manage and use the safety & security technology available and then make it work for you
- Gain a brief & entertaining look at trending technologies in three markets: industrial security, cyber security and consumer electronics/commercial technologies
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Tips for Achieving Capital Forecasting Success
Every part of your campus or facility will need repair or replacement at some point in the future. These projects can range anywhere from small work orders to multimillion dollar contracts. Learn about:
- Long-range capital planning for capital decision making with confidence
- Discuss the fundamentals of capital forecasting and the correlation between facility condition, asset life and student performance along with tips on how to improve your organization's efficiency and pull reports.
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Mass Notification & Emergency Communications - When Seconds Matter
From catastrophic natural disasters to the threats college students face, there has been a heightened demand for effective, multi-layered emergency communications. This session will cover:
- Integrated and interoperable Mass Notification platforms
- Provide the perfect solution to instantly communicate to everyone – anytime, anywhere
- Mass Notification Systems & their ability to send alerts and potentially life-saving instructions to unlimited communication devices, including voice sirens, indoor and outdoor speakers, digital display signage, text messaging, voice calls, desktop alerts, and email notifications.
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Crisis Management & Planning for the Mobile Age
As professionals in the education and healthcare industries, your top priority is the safety of students, faculty, and staff. This seminar teaches:
- How to streamline emergency response
- How to keep your action plans relevant
- Compares efficacy of paper safety plans versus mobile safety plans
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A Case Study for Energy Management in Today's Education Environments
Energy management is essential for today's Healthcare and Education facility engineers and managers and presents an unparalleled opportunity for financial, operational, and environmental building performance enhancement. This workshop presents:
- An overview of current innovative practices in energy management
- An indepth look at a Case Study examining energy management strategies and the actual energy efficiency results of a data/software management system at the Educational and Healthcare Facilities at Thomas Jefferson University.
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Posted by Yasmin Parsloe on Thursday Feb 11, 2016 9:30 am
Guest blog from Scranton Products
School personnel including teachers, principals, facility managers, PTA members, and superintendants all around are taking the Duralife 123 Challenge to find out if their school lockers pass the test. Lockers line the hallways of schools and face harsh wear and tear every day as students unload their books and belongings, open and close them between every class, and even draw on them. Will your school lockers pass the test? Take the Duralife 123 Challenge to See for Yourself.
Impact
You may think that metal lockers are more durable than plastic lockers, just like some of the school personnel who took the Duralife 123 Challenge, but they quickly found out that High Density Polyethylene (HDPE) Duralife Lockers are far superior.
The first test of the Duralife 123 Challenge is to use forceful impact against a metal locker, then again against an HDPE plastic locker.
After hitting both lockers with a hammer, the school personnel found that the metal lockers were easily dented with little force while HDPE plastic lockers could be hit as hard as possible and did not leave a mark.
Traditional metal lockers are usually made from 16 gauge steel which is less than 1/16 inch thick material. This thin material makes metal lockers prone to denting and other types of damage. But Duralife Lockers are made of 1/2 inch thick rigid HDPE plastic, which makes them 59 times greater in resistance to impact than metal lockers.
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Graffiti
Graffiti is a big issue when it comes to school lockers. Students may write all over their lockers, leaving damage and making your school appear in a negative light. It’s important to avoid a locker material that makes it difficult to clean graffiti off, and it’s also costly to utilize various cleaning methods in an effort to do so. You may also have to end up replacing the lockers or repaint them which is very costly.
The second test of the Duralife 123 Challenge is graffiti. School personnel wrote on a metal locker and a Duralife Locker with permanent markers, and then they attempted to clean the marker off. As they tried to wipe the marker off the metal lockers very little came off and the graffiti was still very visible, , But when they wiped the marker off the HDPE plastic lockers, there was no residue left with little effort.
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Noise
One big issue with metal lockers is the noise they produce when students close them. Hearing this loud sound ring throughout the halls is enough to give anyone a headache, and it’s particularly distracting to the students in class when they hear various locker slams in the hallway.
The third and final test of the Duralife 123 Challenge is noise. School personnel slammed a metal locker then slammed an HDPE plastic locker to see which one made more noise. Metal lockers made a loud sound, while HDPE plastic lockers made a more muffled, quieter sound.
See Video
So take the Duralife 123 Challenge today and find out if your school lockers pass the test. If not, click here to check out Scranton Products and find out where you can buy Duralife Lockers.
Posted by Yasmin Parsloe on Tuesday Feb 2, 2016 4:02 pm
 The HR & Employee Benefits Summit and Training & Development Summit are pleased to announce a new speaker to their seminar program taking place on March 14 & 15, 2016 in Philadelphia, PA.
Meet Jim Geier of Human Capital Consulting Partners...
Jim Geier offers more than 30 years of consulting, senior management, and human resources experience in the public, private and not-for-profit sector guiding leadership teams to ensure that their business strategies pay off in the short-, mid- and long-term. He has a wealth of US and global experience in top companies across the financial services, healthcare, life sciences and chemical industries.
As Founder, President and CEO of Human Capital Consulting Partners, Jim works with senior management teams, Boards of Directors and human resources executives to identify the pressing business needs, and then he develops practical and results-oriented solutions that best fit the needs of the company. Jim is known for a unique blend of keen business insight, operational and logistical savvy and successful and proactive project management with a results orientation. He understands how to ask the right questions to clarify key needs and has a range of solutions to address business and organizational issues in a way that preserves trust and credibility at all levels. His unique approach has been proven to dramatically affect the bottom line and ultimately, shareholder value.
Jim is on the Board of Directors at Franklin Mint Federal Credit Union, where he has served as Vice Chairman of the Board, Co-Chair Governance Committee and Chair Human Resources Committee and Philadelphia Young Playwrights, where he serves as a President of the Board and a member of the Executive Committee.
For more information on the HR & Employee Benefits Summit or Training & Development Summit, contact Event Manager Shane Doherty here.
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