Session Categories

ADA

The ADA: Red Flags that Trigger Complaints
ADA for Facilities Operations
CYA: Covering Your ADA
CYA: Covering Your ADA: What Your Architects and Engineers are Missing
Learning Lab: Reviewing Your ADA Plan
Tips to Reviewing Your ADA Plan

baltimore

Funding Energy Efficiency Improvements
Proven Energy Saving Programs & Initiatives
Building Renovation Improves Energy Efficiency and Sustainable Performance

Building Automation

The Internet of Things Is Coming, Is Your Facility Ready?
BIM2FM: Capturing Design & Construction Information for Building Operations and Facility Management
Unify Your Building and Reduce Energy Consumption with BACnet
Implementing BIM for Owners

Building Envelope

Build It Right the First Time: Building Envelope Commissioning/Retro-Commissioning
Eyes in the Sky: Drones in Facility Management
Your Building's Weather Barrier - What Every Facility Manager Should Know
Strategies for Protecting Your Building from Water Damage

Data Centers

Data Centers: Scalable, Modular, Flexible, Efficient, Designs
Energy Management and the Green Data Center
The Data Center Hybrid
Data Center - Internal Facility, Cloud, Co-location, and Container Working Together
Increasing Data Center Resilience While Lowering PUE
A Commissioning Case Study: The Perfect Economizer, From Inception to Catastrophic Failure
Data Center Cooling Strategies
Commissioning to Ensure Performance in Data Centers and Mission Critical Buildings
What Can Cloud Do for You? The Benefits of Moving Asset Management Systems to the Cloud

Design Construction

A Successful Roadmap For Obtaining the Best Price Without Sacrificing Project Quality
Define, Design, Develop & Deliver A High Value Driven RFP
BIM2FM: Capturing Design & Construction Information for Building Operations and Facility Management
Preventing Wind Load Building Damage & Collapse
Continuous Insulation and Air Barriers for High Performance Framed Wall Assemblies
How Changes to the International Building Code Affect High-Performance Design and Construction
Performance-Driven Design
Sustainable Infrastructure Assessments - More Bang for the Buck
Using Industrial Coatings in Architectural Spaces

Energy

Improving Your Bottom Line Operations with Submetering
Tax Incentives for Facility Improvements
Protecting Your Facility from Power Failure
ASHRAE Standard 90.1 Energy Standard Overview and Applications
Geothermal Heat Pump Technology: The Energy Under our Feet
First Things First: Improving Energy Efficiency in Existing Buildings
Hunger Games: How to Curb Your Buildings Appetite for Energy
Optimizing Energy Strategies with Load Response and Energy Efficiency
Energy Management in Existing Buildings
Advanced Electric Submetering for Retrofit and New Construction
Real-Time Energy Management
Energy Savings Performance Contracting: For Educated Buyers Only
Putting the Green into Green Buildings by Focusing on Operations' ROI
Energy Efficiency in Multi-Tenant Office Buildings
Energy Efficiency: Beyond Capital Budget Constraints
Energy, Occupant Satisfaction and Your Facilities Budget: Can They Coexist?
A Performance-Based Guide to Facilities Services
Integration of Battery Technology to Optimize CHP Economics
Generator Docking Stations: Backing Up the Back-Up Plan
District Cooling and the Effects of Low ∆T
Continuous Commissioning Success at Children's Hospital Colorado
Leveraging Efficiency Gains to Finance Infrastructure Upgrades
An Energy Saving Project Report Card: Six Criteria to Evaluate Energy Efficiency Projects
How Machine Learning Is Transforming the Facilities Management Industry
Improving Portfolio Performance with Enterprise GIS
PACE – A Groundbreaking Method of Financing Building Improvement & Energy Efficiency Projects
Direct Current Energy Systems: The Buildings of the Future are Here
Why CHP Is a Good Fit for Commercial Buildings and Workplaces
Property Assessed Clean Energy Financing: PACE has Arrived
Energy Efficiency: High-Performance Financing & Savings
Energy Star Portfolio Manager: How -- and Why
Applying Advanced Energy Management Strategies in Existing Facilities
Energy Benchmarking and Disclosure
Solar Photovoltaics – Comprehensive Implementation for your Facility
Energy Management: the Human in the Loop Process Control Optimization
Developing and Understanding Best in Class Operations
Confessions of an Energy Manager: Winning Strategies for Energy Efficiency

Facilities Management

Leverage Credible Data for Life Cycle Costing & Budgeting
Women in Facilities Management 2018: Roundtable Discussion
Mastering Soft Skills to Enhance Success
Total Cost of Ownership: Becoming Better Stewards of our Assets
The Future of FM Professionals in the Information Age
What FM's Need to Know about Asset Management
Innovative Workplaces and WELL Certification
9 Mistakes FM Professionals Make
Strategic FM Outsourcing: The Contract Isn't the Focus
How to Pass Compliance Audits With Your CMMS
The 7 Deadly Sins of Facility Energy Management
How bEQ Drives High Performance and Cost Savings in Facilities
ISO14001: Impacting the Future of Facility Environmental, Social and Economic Operations
Surviving in the Cruel War of Cost Cutting: How to Expand Your Breadth of Influence
High-Performance Buildings Today and Tomorrow
Help me...I have fallen into FM and cannot get up!!
Proactive Project Management: Managing Beyond the Obvious
Balancing Act: How to Hold Steady in a Fast-Paced FM World
Balanced Strategic Facility Planning: A Proven Integral Method that Earns Multi Stakeholder Buy-in
Change Management in Facilities Management
How to Overcome Facility Management Challenges and Improve Performance
EPACT 179D Energy Tax Savings for Building Owners
Make Employees Your Competitive Advantage
Am I Getting What I Paid For? Beyond the Metrics
Define, Design, Develop & Deliver A High Value Driven RFP?
Facility Condition Assessments (FCA): Is it Time for a Third Party to Review your Facility?
Global Voices in FM
An Overview of Facilities Management Technology
May the FM Force Be with You: What Star Wars Can Teach You About Managing Buildings
What Does a Mature Asset Management Program Look Like?
What Would FMs Do: How Facility Managers Navigate Sticky Situations
A Recipe to Tighten Up Those Performance Gaps
Facility Life Cycle Asset Management
The Art of Competitive Bidding and Negotiations
FMXcellence: Honoring Top FM Teams
Facilities Management in the Headlines: What Would You Do?
Performance Based Contracting for Facility Services
FMXcellence: Elevating the Role of Facility Managers
Best Practices for EE Program Participation, Breaking Down the Barriers
Transformation of the Facility Manager
I Survived: Walter Reed Medical Center - Behind the Scenes from the Investigator
BIM and Facility Management: An Owner's Perspective
Sustainability: FM Practitioners Guide
Maximize Your Facilities Management, Maintenance, and Energy Performance Part2
Building Operator Training: the Hidden Gem of Building System Optimization
Young Professionals Panel
Healthcare Facility Management Compliance

Green Standards

The True Value of Clean
Navigating New LEED EB Certifications
Trends in Commercial Real Estate: A Study of IEQ, WELL Building Standard, BREEAM and ASHRAE Standard
The Greening of Sport Facilities: Lessons Learned
Austin Convention Center's LEED Gold Adventure
What LEED v4 Commissioning Means To You

Grounds Management

Keys to Properly Maintaining Parking Garages
Innovations in Landscape Technology & Chemistry
Preventing Snow Load Collapse of Large Box Buildings
Recognizing Best Practices in Grounds Management
The National Park Service and the Facility Condition Index: A Case Study

High Performance Buildings

Five Rules for Speaking with the CEO and CFO
Defining a High-Performance Building
The Whole Building Design Guide: A High-Performance Primer
Strategies for Improving Energy Performance in Existing Buildings

HVAC

Optimizing HVAC Efficiency: Strategies for Savings
Internal Insulation and your HVAC System
Using AHRI Certified® HVAC and Water Heating Products to Meet Building Energy Targets

IAQ

Using Efficiency to Afford Improved Indoor Environmental Quality
New Standards for Indoor Environments
Using Efficiency to Afford Improved Indoor Environmental Quality
Air Filtration - An Energy Conservation Measure
Meeting ASHRAE 90.1 While Accomplishing ASHRAE 62.1

Interiors Ceilings Furniture Walls Flooring Doors

Budgeting a Carpet Care Maintenance Plan
Leak Detection in Today's Intelligent Building
A Systematic Approach to Evaluating the Building Enclosure
How Your Building Service Contractor Can Help Enhance the Tenant Experience
Toxic-free, Chemical-free, Cleaning Strategies
Improve Risk Management Through Cleaning
Failed Flooring Case Studies
Office Furniture Remanufacturing: The Facilities Managers Alternative to Stockpiling Obsolete Furniture

Leadership

Optimizing Employee Talents and Gifts for Discretionary Effort
Five Rules for Speaking with the CEO and CFO
Women in Facilities Management 2015 Roundtable
Preparing the Next Wave of Leaders
NFMT Talks: Leadership
Engage in the Five C's of Leadership for Success
Developing A Leadership Style That Fits You and Leads To Success
Stump the Experts
FMXcellence: Elevating the Role of Facilities
Complaints: How to Deal with the Negativity
The Future FM Workforce: Build an Integrated Talent Management Plan
Survivability of the FM: Utilizing Expertise Instead of Management, Direction and Control
Stress on the Job: How to Deal
FM in the Age of Information and Automation
Achieving Excellence in Facilities Projects
Communication: How to become a better Leader and Mentor in the Work Place
You are valuable....believe it and share it!
Implications of the new NLRB Joint-Employer Rule
Change Management Within Facilities Management
Developing the Business Case and Roadmap to Building Intelligence
Advanced Visualization Technology in Today's Top Facilities
How to Find, Engage and Benefit from a Mentor/Mentee Relationship
Capital Planning and Project Management: Moving Beyond Spreadsheets
Capital Planning 101
Taking Your Career to the Next Level

Lighting

LEDs, Lighting Controls and the Economics of People
LED Lighting in Hospitals and other HPBs
New International Standards for the Facility Management Industry
The Future of Lighting
LED. Future is HERE!
LED Lighting: Less Secrets, More Surprises
An Introduction to OLEDs: The Other Solid-State Lighting Technology
How LEDs and Advanced Lighting Controls Can Get Office Lighting to Net Zero Energy
LEDs and Lighting Controls: Exciting Future & Some Cautions
LED Lighting, Capabilities Today and Tomorrow
Practical Lessons Learned from Implementing Intelligent Lighting Controls
The Current Best Practices in Parking Garage Lighting
Wireless vs. Wired Lighting Controls or Both?
Switch to LED: A Quick & Affordable Way to Save Your Organization Money NOW!

Maintenance Operations

Define, Design and Deliver a High Value RFP
Future of Engineering and Disruption in Maintenance Industry
FM Metrics for Dashboards and Scorecards
Advanced Retrofit Efficiency Solutions for Every Building System
Creating Value through the Capital & Operating Budget Process
Tips for Implementing a Successful Asset Management Program
Building a World Class Asset Management, Maintenance and Equipment Reliability Program: A Blueprint
What's Your Grade? Calculating Your Maintenance Performance Index
Achieving Excellence in Maintenance Operations
Maintenance Planning and Scheduling Made Simple
Achieving Zero Waste: Transitioning from the 3Rs to the 3Cs
Six Points of Focus for the Building Operator
5 Steps to Achieving Maintenance Operations Utopia
Hazardous Materials Concerns for a Facility Manager
Maintenance Planning and Scheduling Made Simple
What is a High-Performance Building?
Optimizing Preventive Maintenance
Implementing Self-Directed Maintenance Teams
Three Simple Lessons to Achieve Excellence in Maintenance Planning and Scheduling
Maximize Your Facilities Management, Maintenance, and Energy Performance Part1
3rd Party Maintenance Outsourcing: New Competitive Pressure for FM's
Lessons Learned from FMD Achievement Award Winners
The Hidden Value of Commissioning
The ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager Tool
Analytics Driven Asset Reliability & Maintenance Management
The Eight Steps to Success for Maintenance Planning and Scheduling
How to Select Key Metrics to Improve Facility Operations
Data Collection and Analysis Techniques for Facility and Maintenance Managers
Agile O&M
Improving O&M with Design for Maintainability
Implementing Maintenance Planning and Scheduling
Deferred Maintenance
Hottest Trends in CMMS
The Importance of a CMMS as a Knowledge Management Tool
Big Data Analysis: Mining & Analyzing Utility Data into Actionable Insights
Innovative Workplaces and WELL Certification
Construction Data: Today, Tomorrow & Beyond
Leveraging a CMMS to Drive Business Decisions
Learning Lab: How to Document Your Team’s Success
Developing an Effective Scope of Work for Operations & Maintenance Contracts
Elevator Essentials for Facility Management
Importance and Benefits of Predictive Maintenance Programs
Pay Now, or Pay Later! Justifying a Proactive Maintenance Program
Making Predictive Maintenance Work in Your Facility
Reaching the Next Level through Organizational Recommissioning
What Does a Mature Asset Management Program Look Like?
Concrete Slabs, Moisture, and Flooring
Beeps, Leaks, and Easy Tweaks: Top 5 Solutions to Fire Protection Challenges

Plumbing Restrooms

ASHRAE Standard 188P: Prevention of Legionellosis Associated with Building Water Systems
Make Evidence Based Decisions About Water Safety and Legionella

Power

Direct Current Battery Technologies in Mission Critical and Commercial Buildings
The Arrival of DC Power in Buildings

Roofing

Reflective Roof Coatings: Cool Stories
Fall Protection on Low Sloped Roofs
A Guide to Inspecting and Maintaining Various Roofing Systems

Safety and Security

Implementing NFPA 70E for Arc Flash Safety
OSHA's Enforcement and Significant Changes in 2015 NFPA 70E
Fire Alarm/Suppression Systems: Reducing Problems, Lowering Cost
The Six Myths of Disaster Planning: Lessons Learned in Turbulent Times
Fire Alarm/Suppression Systems: Common Problems and Practical Solutions
Critical Building Recovery
Significant Changes to the 2012 International Fire Code
Implementing NFPA 70E for Arc Flash Safety
The 17 Mistakes Made in Emergency Plans, How to Avoid and Correct Them
Active Shooters - What your tenants should know
Implementing NFPA 70E 2015 for Arc Flash Safety
Changes in the 2017 National Electric Code
The ADA - Stay Ahead of the Curve
Leveraging Electronic Counter Measures in Active Shooter Incidents
Protect, Detect, Respond
Resolving Sustainability and Security Conflicts with the Whole Building Design Guide
OSHA’s Enforcement and Significant Changes in 2015 NFPA 70E
Coordinating Fire Sprinkler and Fire Alarm Maintenance
Workplace Violence + Active Shooter: It's About You, Your Management and Your People
Risk Mitigation - Preparing for an Active Shooter Event
Active shooters and Workplace Violence: the ROI of an Effective Deterrent
10 Common Misconceptions of Fire and Life Safety Compliance
Modern Buildings - The Convergence of Physical and Digital Security, Smart Technologies and FM
Mission-Critical Retrofits in High Threat Environments
Risk Wheel: Methods for Assessing and Managing Risk
How Facility Managers Can Get the Most from Their Security System
The Fatal Flaws in Your Active Shooter Response

Sustainability

Low-Hanging Fruit Grows Every 2 Years: Achieving Sustained Building Performance!
Emerging High Efficiency Water and Plumbing Codes and Standards
Four Concepts for Project Quality and Asset Sustainability
Innovative Green Cleaning Technologies that Save Money
Sustainability in the Federal Government
Sustainability and High-Performance Buildings: FM Practitioners Guide
Sustainability in the Federal Government
Water Conservation
Three Keys to Sustaining Organizational Change
Preparing to Lead Sustainability Initiatives: Roles, Responsibilities, Resources
Sustainable Water Use and Green Plumbing Codes
Designing Smart Recycling Programs for Offices & Public Spaces
Building the Best Team for a Sustainable Operation

Technology

The Role IoT Will Play in the Facility of the Future
How Intelligent Building Technology Can Impact Your Business by Reducing Operating Costs
Making the Move to Centralized Facilities Management (CFM)
Data Management & Analytics
The Impact of Emerging Technologies on Facilities Management
Essential FM Technologies
Data, Data Everywhere
IT, Data, Analytics and Emerging Technology
The Convergence of Physical and Digital Security
Integrated Digital Turnover: Successfully Collecting FM Data Throughout Construction
The State of Facilities Management Software
Building Intelligence — Massive Disruption Ahead
Emerging Technologies – Are You Ready?
When the Machines Take Over the Buildings
Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) - Drones, the Good, the Bad, the Ugly
The Next Generation of Smart Cities and Facilities Management
Why Real Intelligence will Always Trump Artificial Intelligence in Facilities Management
The Internet of Buildings: A Technological Boon for Building Systems and Operations
Before & After – How the IoT Can Transform BMS
Using the IIoT to Improve Maintenance Operations
Are We Ready for the Next Industrial Revolution?
Drones and Facility Security: What No One Will Tell You

vegas

The First (or Next) 100 Days as a Facilities Manager
Top Facility Challenges and How to Address Them Utilizing a Documented EBCx Process
Tax Incentives for Facility Improvements