Facility Manager's Operation and Maintenance Handbook - Hardcover

Lewis, Bernard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0070400482 ISBN 13: 9780070400481

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education, 1999

Synopsis

Here are cutting-edge techniques that will boost the productivity and slash the costs of your facility department

Let 21 top specialists show you how to maximize the operation and maintenance capabilities of any facility or plant. This practical handbook takes you through each step in the planning, design, and execution of maintenance and operation procedures for structures, equipment, and systems. It features special emphasis on emergency and energy equipment used in facilities--and explores all essential support functions and duties. The most comprehensive resource of its kind, this handbook provides you with a complete picture of facility operation and maintenance--from technical checklists--to cost control--to computer applications!

About this title

Book Description:

This Handbook presents to Facility Managers a high quality operation and maintenance program that will help prevent any facility from having a loss of comfort, safety violations, or a loss of productivity caused by equipment failure. It will do this by describing proven procedures and techniques for facility management. The handbook will emphasize developing an operation plan which describe how to establish a quality control plan; hazardous on the maintenance and inspection of emergency and energy equipment used in a facility. The handbook will also cover key support functions and duties such as outsourcing considerations, custodial considerations, waste management programs, pest control programs, landscaping services and water treatment services.

About the Author:

Bernard T. Lewis owns and manages a facilities management consultant firm which specializes in solving problems related to facilities engineering management. His clients have included the Charles E. Smith Companies, Georgetown University, George Washington University, and Port Authority of New York. A member of the Association of Facilities Engineers, Dr. Lewis teaches engineering management, lectures on facilities management nationally and internationally, and is the author of 18 books and numerous magazine articles on facilities management and engineering.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0070400482
• ISBN 13: 9780070400481
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 500