Chris Hodges and Tim Carey will speak at MD/DC APPA Summer Meeting held June 13 – 14 in Turf Valley Resort in Maryland. The presentation will focus on how to optimize your facility data to improve budgeting and planning.
This session will help educational facility managers become better story tellers about strategy, finances, integration, and future needs.
Chris and Tim will deliver a presentation on ‘Changing Your View – How to Optimize Your Facility Data to Create Better Budgets.’ The presentation focuses on balancing facility costs between operations, capital renewal, renovations, and new construction is a tricky business. Most stakeholders do not recognize the ongoing challenges and costs of maintaining facilities, often seeing our operational and capital renewal budgets as a trimmable expense. Others are not conditioned to think about things that break down, age, or need replacement, and are generally biased toward new buildings.
Learning Objectives:
- Recognizing the perspective of decision-makers such as university leadership, the CFO, and campus constituents (including students and parents) will lead to more effective communication of facilities’ needs.
- Organizing facilities data in relatable “buckets” that address operational, capital renewal, and functional requirements, while aligning with the funding needs for facility renovations and new construction will help the facilities manager more effectively communicate needs in a consistent manner, year-over-year, and within available resources.
- Proactively telling the “Facilities Story” based on organized, comprehendible data (FCA’s, historical budgets and the shortfalls created; today’s facilities staffing challenges; etc.) will get the attention of decision-makers and campus constituents.
- Knowing the story and having the data to back it up will allow for better decision-making and allocation of resources that meet service level expectations and make more efficient use of often scarce resources.
MD/DC APPA is an organization dedicated to supporting educational facility professionals- operations, maintenance, engineering, construction, environmental services, sustainability, planning and development in Maryland and Washington, DC.
