Facility Inspection Field Manual: A Complete Condition Assessment Guide (First-Choice Field Manuals) - Softcover

Lewis, Bernard T.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0071358749 ISBN 13: 9780071358743

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional, 2000

Synopsis

Get longer, safer system operating life for every facility maintenance dollar!

How do you efficiently manage facility infrastructure? You turn to this hands-on, answer-packed, time- and money-saving guide designed for every facility manager who has to do more with less. It shows you how to conduct seamless facility condition inspections that provide an overall snapshot of the current condition of your facility, generating enormous amounts of priceless information that will help you reduce or eliminate downtime and keep your facility humming.

This comprehensive, portable toolkit packs everything you need to:

* Continually assess the condition status of every aspect of a building: all of its systems and equipment, components and subcomponents
*Identify deficiencies before they become major problems
* Get better performance from every system

About this title

About the Authors

Bernard T. Lewis (Potomac, MD) started his career as a supervisory industrial engineer for the Navy in 1958. He was a project engineer for NASA for 10 ears. He is currently a facilities management consultant, and teaches engineering management at George Washington University. He holds a BS in Civil/Mechanical Engineering from West Point, an MA in Mathematics from Columbia, and a PhD in MBA from Pacific Western. He is a registered professional Industrial Engineer, as well as a certified plant engineer. He has written 18 books and several magazine articles. He also lectures worldwide on facilities management.

Richard P. Payant has more than 7 years of experience as Director of Facilities Management at Georgetown University and more than 23 years experience with the Army Corps of Engineers. A certified plant engineer and facility manager, an adjunct professor at George Mason, and the author of several professional publications, he has an M.A. in business management/public administration from Central Michigan University and a B.S. from Norwich University.

From the Back Cover

Efficient facility operations and maintenance in the palm of your hand With this unique McGraw-Hill Facility Inspection Field Manual, you have checklists, time guides, forms, and key assessment points ready to use, any time. Saving hours of research, and making it far simpler to schedule and assign tasks, the comprehensive, yet pocket-sized Facility Inspection Field Manual features: *Handy condition-assessment checklists and operations and maintenance timelines *Detailed checkpoints for everything from roofs to tunnels, appliances to chemical tanks and railroad tracks *Easy-to-find assessment points for electrical/plumbing, exterior, HVAC, interior finishes--nearly every feature of every facility *Verification programs for indoor air quality, environmental management, and safety *Time-saving techniques, tips, and guides for all aspects of facility operations and maintenance *Tested programs and checkpoints for facility managers, engineers, architects, consultants, and technicians Packed with handy average-useful-life indexes, energy-saving plans, scheduling guidelines, and find/fix programs, Facility Inspection Field Manual is the most useful new tool for facility managers to come along in years. Let it help you make your facility a showplace, running at maximum efficiency and cost-effectiveness.

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0071358749
• ISBN 13: 9780071358743
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 428