Facility Masters: Benchmarking School Operations and Maintenance
Industry expert from Benchmark4Excellence and a peer from Keller ISD, TX review the essentials of benchmarking your maintenance and operations efforts. Learn best practices for accurately measuring and analyzing your work, as well as how to develop an improvement plan and assess your progress.
Webcast: Preventive Maintenance Program Implementation Made Simple
Discover how Paul Cooper, Director of Operations at Coopersville Area Public Schools, and his M&O team overcame numerous obstacles to establish and administer an effective scheduled maintenance plan.
Facility Masters: Auditorium and Theatre Safety for Schools
Industry experts from the State of New Mexico and Teqniqal review the essentials of properly maintaining auditoriums and theaters to ensure safety. Learn how performing and documenting regular inspections and maintenance can help you reduce the risk of litigation while protecting the health of students, employees and community members.
Facility Masters: Integrated Pest Management Essentials For Schools
Industry experts from the University of Arizona and EnviroSafe review the essentials of an effective Integrated Pest Management (IPM) program. You'll learn how IPM can provide significantly better pest management with less pesticide use and no increase in cost.
Webcast: Internet Maintenance Management Systems
Join Erin Miller from Colorado School of Mines to hear how she was able to get her facility maintenance system running and producing results in 14 days. Learn to increase operational efficiencies, begin communicating with your requesters, improve response times and customer service, and easily track facility data and generate reports.
Facility Masters: Indoor Air Quality Essentials for Schools
Industry experts from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Texas Association of School Boards (TASB) review the essentials of proactively managing indoor air quality to positively impact teaching and learning in your schools. You’ll learn how increasing IAQ can help you improve the learning environment for students and teachers while also reducing costs and legal risks.
Facility Masters: Bleacher Safety and Maintenance
Industry expert from Hussey Seating Company reviews the essentials of properly maintaining bleachers to ensure safety. You’ll learn how regular bleacher inspection and maintenance can help you reduce costs and legal risks while ensuring the safety of students and community members.
Facility Masters: Air Conditioning System Maintenance
Industry experts from Hartford Steam Boiler discuss how a comprehensive, scheduled maintenance program for air conditioning systems can help your school improve energy efficiency and reduce capital losses – ultimately providing savings directly to your budget.
Facility Masters: Air Conditioning System Maintenance (PDF)
Industry experts from Hartford Steam Boiler discuss how a comprehensive, scheduled maintenance program for air conditioning systems can help your school improve energy efficiency and reduce capital losses – ultimately providing savings directly to your budget.
Facility Masters: Playground Safety
David Parker, a National Playground Safety Instructor for NRPA, reviews the essentials of building and maintaining safe playgrounds. Learn how regular playground inspection and maintenance can help you reduce legal risks while protecting the school’s most valuable assets – your students!
Facility Masters: Preventive Maintenance for Roofs
Tremco, a leading provider of roofing solutions, reviews the essentials of preventive maintenance for roofs, including the most common maintenance and repair issues. Learn how regular roof inspection and maintenance can help your school improve efficiency and reduce losses – ultimately providing savings directly to your budget.
Facility Masters: Preventive Maintenance for Roofs (PDF)
Tremco, a leading provider of roofing solutions, reviews the essentials of preventive maintenance for roofs, including the most common maintenance and repair issues. Learn how regular roof inspection and maintenance can help your school improve efficiency and reduce losses – ultimately providing savings directly to your budget.
Facility Masters: Preventive Maintenance for Boilers
Industry expert from Hartford Steam Boiler discusses how regular boiler inspection and maintenance can help your school improve efficiency and reduce losses – ultimately providing savings directly to your budget.
Facility Masters: Preventive Maintenance for Boilers (PDF)
Industry expert from Hartford Steam Boiler discusses how regular boiler inspection and maintenance can help your school improve efficiency and reduce losses – ultimately providing savings directly to your budget.
Facility Masters: Smart Cleaning for Schools (mp3)
Hear school experts from Fraser Public Schools, MI and Blackhawk School District, PA review Smart Cleaning policies and processes for Schools. You will learn how to develop and implement a Smart Cleaning program that improves the educational environment while helping you save money and time. Click here for iPod mp4 version.
Case Studies
Case Studies
Case Study: Shaker Heights
FSDirect allows Shaker Heights to have immediate access to what’s going on in buildings. Users feel more involved and at ease with more information at their fingertips. This makes streamlining events easier by avoiding conflicts.
Q&A: Lewis-Palmer School District
Q&A with Jim Carter,Maintenance and Operations Manager and Ann Taylor, Assistant to Maintenance and Operations Manager of Lewis-Palmer School District. Learn how MaintenanceDirect helped them automate their work order system and how UtilityDirect allowed them to track, and ultimately cut, utility costs.
Q&A: Cincinnati State Technical and Community College
Q&A with Christine Barrow, Facilities Technical Assistant and Data Specialist at Cincinnati State Technical and Community College on how SchoolDude helped them generate maintenance reports to justify their headcount and funding and set up preventive maintenance schedules.
Q&A: University of Northern Iowa
Q&A with David Fuller, Facilities Manager of Department of Residence at University of Northern Iowa on how SchoolDude helped them automate the work order process and generate valuable maintenance reports.
Q&A: Elgin Community College
Q&A with Cal Byrd, Manager of Plant Operations & Custodial Services on how SchoolDude helped him streamline the work order process
Case Study: Datatel and Ocean County College
SchoolDude's on-demand solutions provided the ideal choice to help OCC properly plan, manage and maintain their facilities while maximizing existing resources.
Q&A: Westerville City Schools
Q&A with Jenna McDevitt, Director, Business Services/Purchasing at Westerville City Schools, OH on how SchoolDude helps them monitor operational costs by maintaining accountability for all spend categories related to operations.
Q&A: Central Bucks School District
Q&A with Scott Kennedy, Director of Operations at Central Bucks School District explaining how he streamlined processes for work orders, preventive maintenance and inventory control.
Q&A: Chandler Unified School District
Q&A with Chandler USD, AZ on how SchoolDude helps them save time, save money and help the IT and maintenance departments work closer together.
Case Study: Christian Academy
Christian Academy automated their work order process with MaintenanceDirect, enabling requesters to submit work requests over the Internet and automating the process of routing requests for approval and completion.
Case Study: Medford Township Public Schools
Medford Township Public Schools went from a 5-part-form paper system to a streamlined, online solution which saved time by allowing faculty and staff to submit requests online anywhere at any time.
Case Study: Surrey School District 36
Canadian public school district is left dry after a 3-year implementation of a maintenance solution when company went belly up; SchoolDude's MaintenanceDirect saved the day.
Case Study: Wesleyan University
Wesleyan University replaced a legacy system with MaintenanceDirect, saving time and money with a more efficient maintenance and preventive maintenance workflow.
Software as a Service for Education: Do More for Less, Faster
This white paper by Karen Greenwood Henke of Nimble Press discusses how school districts, large and small, have discovered software-as-a-service (SaaS) as a way to save time and money without reducing services.
Data Sheets
Data Sheets
Datasheet: PMDirect
PMDirect™ is a powerful, on-demand preventive maintenance scheduling tool that helps you create, assign and manage recurring maintenance tasks efficiently.
Enviromental Law Institute
The Environmental Law Institute (ELI) makes law work for people, places, and the planet. The Institute’s mission is to advance environmental protection by improving environmental law, policy, and management.
EPA Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) Tools for Schools
The IAQ Tools for Schools Program is a comprehensive resource to help schools maintain a healthy environment in school buildings by identifying, correcting, and preventing IAQ problems.
Guide to Operating and Maintaining EnergySmart Schools
The Guide to Operating and Maintaining EnergySmart Schools is a primary resource for implementing a district or school-wide operations and maintenance (O&M) program that focuses on energy efficiency.
National Program for Playground Safety
NPPS is the leader in research, training, and development of S.A.F.E. play areas. NPPS’ mission is to help the public create safe and developmentally appropriate play environments for children.