Facilities Engineering and Management Handbook - Commercial, Industrial, and Institutional Buildings

Description

This book puts focus on the big picture in building and facility management and engineering to yield greater safety, efficiency, and overall economy of operation. The text is a wide-lens guidebook that offers a genuine insight and essential systems approach to commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities management, engineering, design, construction, operation, maintenance, and renovation. This handbook gives you all the tools you need for analyzing, comparing, anticipating, and managing the implications of engineering, maintenance, operating and design decisions, and integrating facility systems for best results. Content: Front Matter • Table of Contents • Interactive Graphs Table  (6) •Part I. Facilities Management 1. Perspectives 2. Facility Financial Management 3. Facility Life-Cycle Process •Part II. Facilities Engineering 4. Planning and Programming Process 5. Engineering and Design Process 6. Construction, Modifications/Renovation, and Demolition/Site Restoration 7. Facility Operations, Maintenance, and Assessment 8. Codes and Standards •Part III. Facilities: Buildings and Complexes 9. Health Care Facilities 10. Laboratories 11. Industrial and Manufacturing Facilities 12. College and University Facilities 13. Airports, Government Installations, and Prisons 14. Data Centers Index • About the Editors