Being a facility management executive in 2023 is no easy task. The modern facility executive must maintain a delicate balance; from providing excellent customer service, being responsive to building users and the staff, and ensuring that supply chain issues are minimized to maintain operational success — all while juggling these issues within mostly slim operational budgets. Here’s how the University of Georgia FMD uses the HGSC program to support employees.
How Facility Managers Can Offer a Path to Professional Growth
Five Types of School Water Quality Emergencies and How to Address Them
Water quality emergencies can create environmental and health hazards for students and staff in addition to disrupting operations for days or even weeks at a time. Proper planning can help schools contain the scope of a water quality emergency, reduce the potential for exposures to students and staff, and minimize the disruption to operations.
Tips for Selecting the Right Air Quality Monitoring Technology for Your School
Regularly monitoring indoor air quality can help identify problem areas and opportunities for improvement. Ongoing monitoring of contaminants requires an investment of staff time and financial resources. So, it’s important to carefully consider the unique needs and challenges of your school facilities when selecting technical devices to perform air testing and determine contaminant levels.
Announcing the HGSC Fall Virtual Summit 2023
We’re excited to announce Healthy Green Schools & Colleges’ Fall Virtual Summit, an event designed to connect facilities professionals in the HGSC program, sponsors, and partners to share insights and foster collaborative problem-solving in the effort to integrate health and sustainability into day-to-day facilities operations and management in K-12 and higher education institutions.
Cosumnes River College Hosts The 2023 Healthy Green Schools & Colleges Summer Summit
The 2023 Healthy Green Schools & Colleges Summer Summit brought together HGSC program sponsors, partners, and school facility directors from across the country who are committed to improving the indoor air quality and sustainability of their K12 districts and higher education institutions.
Cape Elizabeth School Department on Using the HGSC Standard to Improve Local Facilities
Cape Elizabeth School Department Facilities Director, David Bagdasarian shares what the HGSC self-assessment revealed about his school and why creating healthy buildings is important.
Facility Cleaning Managers Benefit from Self-Assessments
It’s never easy admitting mistakes, showing weakness, or flat out failing at something. But if a cleaning department doesn’t have a strong program in place, success will be an uphill battle. To be successful, it’s imperative to establish a baseline for departments to build from.
Cleaning Self-Assessment Identifies Key Areas of Improvement
When the Wisconsin-based West Allis-West Milwaukee School District first learned about the Healthy Green Schools & Colleges (HGSC) initiative, it was easy to wonder if this was just another idea that sounded good in theory, but would be too costly or take too much time to implement. After some careful research — various emails and utilizing some online resources — it became clear that this approach might be realistic.
Webinar: EPA Listening Session for Funding to Address Air Pollution at Schools
Mark your calendars: The U.S. EPA is holding a listening session next week to get input on the design of a new grant and technical assistance program funded by the Inflation Reduction Act.
West Allis-West Milwaukee School District on Improving Sustainability with the HGSC Program
West Allis-West Milwaukee School District facilities manager, Steven Eichman shares why addressing air quality is important to him and why he was surprised by the district’s HGSC self-assessment results.
