Publications for Download

Technical Information: Facility Management

USBR Publications

The following guides are published by the US Bureau of Reclamation and are freely available for downloading in PDF format.

• Management of Power Facilities (USBR, 2003) 1.92MB

This manual lists the policies and best practices associated with the management of Bureau of Reclamation power facilities, and serves as a guideline for facility managers to prepare for a power operation and maintenance review.

• Conduct of Power Maintenance (USBR, 2006) 404kb

This volume identifies the philosophy, practices, tools, resources, and assessment needed in the maintenance of Reclamation power facilities, including major pumping facilities. It includes quantitative indicators for measuring performance. These indicators are intended to be used for local management and for power review of operation and maintenance purposes. Maintenance of facilities and equipment primarily used for water storage and conveyance is not covered.

IFMA Publications

Below are listed resources published by the International Facility Management Association with links to a source of supply.

• Benchmarking: The Search for Industry Best Practices That Lead to Superior Performance (Camp, 1991)

This text addresses the questions: What is benchmarking? How do I perform benchmarking? What are the results of its successful application? It describes 10 key process steps to benchmarking through detailed examples, reference guides and case histories.

• Business Process Benchmarking: Finding and Implementing Best Practices (Camp, 1995)

This book presents proven benchmarking techniques for quick results. It focuses on the leadership and management aspects of benchmarking, including training strategies for increased effectiveness. Award-winning case studies are also included.

• Global Cases in Benchmarking: Best Practices from Organizations Around the World (Camp, 1998)

This book presents actual case studies that illustrate the power of benchmarking from a global perspective. The real-life organizational cases demonstrate that sharing best practices through benchmarking is universally applicable and can be applied immediately to a wide cross-section of topics, problems and processes.

• Facility Design and Management Handbook (Teicholz, 2001)

This unique resource features the productivity tools, technologies, and stratagems that have revolutionized this field in the last decade. Accompanying CD-ROM offers sample document from budgets, schedules, plans to cost-benefit analyses, checklists, forms and audits; standards for communications and database, integration, building and construction, CAD conventions; Web links and other resources.

• Facility Management (Rondeau et al, 1995)

An encyclopedic volume with a collection of definitions, sample documents, procedural guidelines and financial tips. Offers guidance in using solid, decision-making strategies to develop a quality-oriented, environmentally safe and aesthetically pleasing workplace. A new edition (2006) of this text is also available.

• Facility Management: Risks and Opportunities (Nutt & McLennan, 2000)

This book helps to build up a distinctive body of FM knowledge and practice and examines key issues such as PFI and e-commerce and also relates FM issues to business objectives.

• Facility Manager’s Operation and Maintenance Handbook (Lewis, 1999)

This handbook takes you through each step in the planning, design, and execution of maintenance and operation procedures for structures, equipment, and systems. Features special emphasis on emergency and energy equipment used in facilities, and explores all essential support functions and duties.

• Facility Manager’s Portable Handbook (Lewis, 2000)

This book provides a customizable, and quickly accessible guide for everyday use on the job. Filled with tables, charts, and checklists, it is ideal for use by maintenance managers and engineers, facility and operations managers, and others. Employs a well-illustrated, systematic format and ready-to-use data, plus ample note-taking space.

• Handbook of Commercial and Industrial Facilities Management (Wrennall & Lee (eds.), 1994)

A comprehensive volume that assists in planning, designing and managing industrial facilities.

• Quality Facility Management: A Marketing & Customer Service Approach (Friday & Cotts, 1995)

A guide to developing, implementing and marketing quality facility management. Includes examples, checklists, worksheets and case studies from International Facility Management Association’s Best Practices Forums.

• Total Productive Facilities Management (Sievert, 1998)

Recognising that today’s facility managers must also become asset managers who, with the right tools, can support the goals of their organizations, by making facility assets as efficient, productive and competitive as possible, this book is a systematic method for applying modern quality, value engineering and project management principles in a team environment to improve facilities’ performance.