Through a rigorous application of standardized, orderly, comprehensive, and scalable asset data, coupled with the developing organizational cultures for consuming and maintaining that data at all levels of the organizations, multiple universities, including Gordon State College, are gaining the ability to optimize their computerized maintenance management systems (CMMS / EAMS / IWMS) to enable staff to inspect and maintain critical assets for better performance and life cycles. Reporting on clean data allows them to self-perform condition assessments in a more granular and accurate manner than is possible using other methodologies. Reporting capabilities flowing from this effort serve as the foundation for requesting, and receiving, staffing and other resources with data-supported evidence and supports capital needs analyses and reporting. Come learn from this panel how these institutions are laying the track to stay on track.
Why the problem is not usually the CMMS / EAMS / IWMS or the staff, but the data.
Why changing CMMS / EAMS / IWMS, when warranted or desired, should not be painful.
What it means to have an organizational culture of ‘consuming the data’.
How clean data presented the right way has gained more resources to be deployed in critical areas that return compounded benefits to the facilities operation, and the institution.
Learn how sound asset management practices persist through staff turnover and software changes and are essential for facilities managers in changing physical and fiscal environments to get the most from built assets through using available resources optimally.
Learn about a new construction data acquisition and maintenance operations commissioning process that actually works on-time and for a reasonable price.
Greg Adams currently serves as Vice President of Business Development for Building Maintenance Optimization Consultants and provides consulting services to higher education facilities management (FM) organizations seeking to achieve optimal stakeholder satisfaction through their organization and with their asset portfolios. Greg served key facilities management roles at Marquette University, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, College of Coastal Georgia, Clayton State University, and as Director of Operations and Maintenance for the University System of Georgia. Greg holds a bachelor’s degree in Technical Management from Clayton State University and a Master of Science Degree in Building Construction and Facilities Management from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Greg currently serves on the Board of GAPPA, is a former president of MAPPA, and has published articles on sustainability in FM in APPA’s Facilities Manager Magazine.
David Van Hook has spent the last 19 years in educational facilities management in Georgia at the community college, university and K12 levels. Utilizing data driven decision processes learned during his tenure as a United States Marine, David has been able to achieve notable efficiency improvements at each institution where he has been employed. David began his career at Kennesaw State University, where he spent 10 years working his way up to be Assistant Director of Plant Operations. He next spent 4 years at Floyd County School system as the Director of Facilities. After the school system, David returned to higher education as Director of Facilities at Georgia Highlands College. While at GHC, David entered into a shared services agreement where he was the Interim Director of Facilities at Gordon State College in addition to his duties as Assistant Vice President for Facilities at GHC. In June of 2024, he again left higher education for a K12 system when he accepted the position of Director of Maintenance and Construction at Bartow County School System.
Jonathan (Jon) Thomas, PE, CEM, CRL founded BMOC in 2015 after leading facility condition assessment (FCA) projects for 17 years. While working in FCA leading the company’s equipment inventory work, he noticed persistent problems in the facilities management industry:
BMOC was founded on the thesis that CMMS / EAMS / IWMS is underutilized and undervalued due to the asset data within rather than its functionality and new construction turnover fails broadly because facilities must own the process. BMOC has been established to solve these problems and provide facilities with a partner who can add expertise and continuity in these fields.
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