Customize your course schedule from our comprehensive curriculum! At the Northern New England Facility Masters Conference, you create a personalized schedule that focuses on your interests and career development needs. Select your area(s) of expertise from six focused course tracks and create your customized curriculum from informative sessions taught by your peers and national industry experts.
Best Practices in Facilities Management
Best Practices in Roof Maintenance
This presentation will review the essentials of preventive maintenance for roofs, including the most common maintenance and repair issues. You'll learn how regular roof inspection and maintenance can help your school improve efficiency and reduce losses – ultimately providing savings directly to your budget.
Bleacher Safety and Maintenance
This session will cover the critical elements of properly maintaining bleachers to ensure safety. You’ll learn how regular bleacher inspection and maintenance can help you reduce costs and legal risks while ensuring the safety of students and community members.
Equipment Breakdown – Boilers and Pressure Vessels
Boilers are used to provide comfort, heat, hot water, and heating mediums for processes. This equipment is usually hidden in machine rooms, and as long as they are working and providing their intended service, they are usually forgotten and taken for granted. But boilers and pressure vessels contain a large amount of potential energy that can cause bodily injury and property damage when an uncontrolled release occurs. Learn how to be proactive and protect lives and property by attending this informative session.
PM in Difficult Circumstances
This session will use real case studies to describe methods for implementing a PM program in settings where management and supervision time are scarce and/or staffing for maintenance is low. You will learn how to overcome the common barriers to establishing a PM program and how to get started with an effective scheduled maintenance plan.
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Energy Management
Common Sense and Reducing Energy Use and Costs
This presentation will review normally overlooked areas where energy is being wasted or inefficiencies exist. To eliminate these areas of energy waste or inefficiencies, attendees will be provided with energy saving strategies, new technologies and devices – along with a dash of common sense.
Energy Efficiency for Schools
The focus of this course is to identify opportunities for improving energy efficiency, and then utilize performance contracting in conjunction with New Hampshire School Building Aid to procure a comprehensive building efficiency project that is self funding.
Energy Standards and Energy Efficiency
As the demand for more energy-efficient buildings has grown, the number of ways to achieve higher energy efficiency facilities and save money by using building automation systems has also grown. Many successful strategies have been incorporated into ASHRAE and LEED standards and guidelines. This session will look at the various strategies presented in these standards and guidelines, as well as how they have been successful in the real world.
Fuels for Schools in the Northern Forest Region
This session will build on the State of Vermont’s experience with the Fuel For Schools (VFFS) program, the goal of which is to provide schools with the information and support needed to evaluate and successfully implement woodchip and other biomass heating systems that replace expensive fossil fuels with locally produced wood fuels. The discussion will include wood fuel supply and air quality/emissions issues.
Going Green
Come and learn how Champion Middle School, OH has successfully embraced recycling and other innovative green initiatives to create a sustainable, healthy, and positive learning environment for students and staff. Learn how students performed in "junk bands," recycled fashions in art, conducted a paper drive, formed a green projects club, and much more to motivate their community to go green! Participants will learn how to easily implement a grassroots recycling program within their community, as well as brainstorm activities to engage and motivate students to become champions for sustainability initiatives. Your instructor will also explore the financial aspects of creating a green school.
How to Calculate Energy Savings and Total Cost of Ownership for HVAC Equipment
The presentation will provide information concerning building energy use and future energy costs. SEER/EER (efficiency ratings) requirements will be discussed, as well as potential incentive monies available with higher efficiency equipment. The Total Cost of Ownership Calculator will be presented with audience participation in a live example. Your instructor will cover how the calculator works, how to understand the results and system payback. Finally, you will also learn how to use the results to get what is best for your schools, not what is forced on you.
How to Operate and Maintain an Energy Efficient and Smart School
Find out how to operate your school more energy efficiently and “smartly”. This can be accomplished through understanding operation and maintenance practices, developing a comprehensive energy management plan, and using action plans for the technical elements and systems.
Navigating Today’s Turbulent Energy Markets
This presentation will provide an energy market overview, explore product procurement, and discuss strategy development and implementation. Your instructor will present case studies, as well as share information about the regulatory environment and renewable products.
10 Steps to Sustainable Environmental Management
Safe, healthy, high performing learning environments improve student performance, increase district revenue through better attendance, reduce operational costs, minimize risk and improve the health and well-being of students, teachers and staff. Learn proven strategies for successfully implementing an effective and sustainable environmental management program within your district. Learn how to incorporate the EPA’s Six Key Drivers of Environmental Excellence into your existing environmental management program to help you transform your schools into safe, healthy, high performance centers of learning.
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Environmental Issues and Risk Management
Cleaning for Health and Infection Control
Now that H1N1 is a reality, it is essential to understand the basics of infection control and the importance of developing a disinfection protocol for your facilities. Learn about the new "greener" disinfectants and technology and how they can complement your Cleaning for Health program.
The Essentials of Risk Management
This workshop will highlight the areas of school risk management that pertain directly to workers compensation and property liability issues, as they relate to School Business Administrators and Facility Managers. Learn how to manage those risks, assign accountability throughout the schools, and create sustainability for those initiatives that will reduce risk, lower costs, and provide a safer and healthier school campus.
Fine Tuning Your Green Cleaning
Now that you've introduced eco-friendly products, it's time to incorporate processes that will match up to these products and enhance the tasks at hand. Learn how better practices and simple tools can positively impact your school's appearance and overall level of cleanliness and good health.
Fire Safety Services – Requirement and Revenue
Learn how you can ensure that your school’s facilities meet fire safety code compliance without breaking the budget.
How and Why to Implement an IPM program
This presentation provides an introduction to the New Hampshire School IPM Initiative, including current NH School IPM Projects. You will also learn about resources such as links to networks, stakeholders, tools promoting voluntary implementation of verifiable IPM, and NH specific rules that guide decision making. The New Hampshire Department of Agriculture, Markets and Food's Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Program's New Hampshire School IPM Initiative is committed to maximizing education and training opportunities regarding best management practices for pest control in school environments and facilitating informed decision-making by educational administrators and stakeholders.
Managing Hazardous Wastes in Schools
Complying with the multitude of state and federal requirements for handling hazardous wastes is always a challenge. This workshop will provide you with information and resources on identifying, controlling and disposing of hazardous wastes in your schools. Case studies from a two-year hazardous waste project with New Hampshire High Schools will be discussed to illustrate potential problems and solutions.
Managing Sport Fields in New England
This presentation will identify best practices and processes in managing and maintaining excellent school sport fields, including specific guidelines for the New England region.
Perception vs. Reality: Dealing with IAQ Concerns
Concerns with indoor air quality can bring any building to a complete standstill and drain valuable resources if not handled appropriately. It makes no difference whether it is a perception or a reality – the situation needs to be resolved immediately to minimize the disruption of the educational environment and to satisfy building occupants. Your presenter will discuss these indoor air quality issues and review related case studies.
Preventive Pest Management
Learn how you can stop pests in their tracks. This workshop will describe how to prevent pest infestations before they begin. Bring your own pest list to the workshop and ask experts for preventive measures.
Turf Maintenance for Safety and IPM
This presentation will describe how turf maintenance processes and integrated pest management initiatives work well together.
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Best Practices in Facilities Planning
Building Renovation Awareness and Hazardous Materials
About to renovate or demolish an existing building? Be aware of the building’s potential to contain both accessible and hidden contaminants (e.g. asbestos, lead, mold, mercury, guano, PCB’s). Awareness of hazardous materials is critical during the planning stages to protect worker health and safety, the environment, and to avoid project delays, violations and costly citations. This course will provide attendees with awareness of these “budget busters and schedule breakers”.
Installation and Maintenance of Portable Classrooms
This presentation will identify those considerations and decisions that are necessary when a school district plans for installation and maintenance of portable classrooms.
Planning for Capital Renewal
Well before deferred maintenance and shrinking budgets became hot topics, educational professionals recognized that forecasting facility capital requirements is essential for budget planning, securing funding, and determining where and when the facility infrastructure requires financial support. This presentation will describe new tools that are available for facility assessment and long-term planning.
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Leadership and Communications
Benchmarking School Operations and Maintenance
Now more than ever, school operations leaders are expected to do more with fewer resources, while still demonstrating a high level of accountability and meeting the expectations of school officials, the board and the community. How can you ensure that you’re meeting expectations if you aren’t benchmarking your efforts? You simply can’t manage what you’re not measuring.
Effectively Reporting to the Board
This presentation will provide insight into what data you need to present in administrative meetings, as well as what methods you can use to effectively measure, track, analyze and report on that information.
Hot Topics in the Northeast
This roundtable discussion will identify many of the key topics of interest for facility directors in New Hampshire and across the northeast region.
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SchoolDude Services and Product Training
MaintenanceDirect Training: Basic
Learn the basics of SchoolDude’s on-demand work order system, including system set up and adding essential information (e.g. locations, users, budget codes). This session will illustrate the work order process from receiving and assigning work requests to processing work orders and generating reports.
MaintenanceDirect Training: Advanced
This session will cover advanced functions, such as automating approval and assignment of work with enhanced routing and programmable logic. You will also learn how to manipulate your account information, set up and save searchable data and use even more advanced features!
MaintenanceDirect Training: Technicians and Supervisors
Supervisors will learn how to review work requests, automate approval and assignment of work, close out work orders and easily generate work reports. Technicians will learn how to manage, update and complete work assignments online and via wireless/mobile devices, as well as how to add transactions for labor hours and purchases.
MaintenanceDirect Best Practices (Roundtable)
This interactive class will cover best practices for successfully implementing and utilizing MaintenanceDirect to establish an effective work order process. Learn best practices for serving requesters, routing work and getting technicians involved in using the system.
PMDirect Training
Learn how to effectively use PMDirect to create PM schedules – including related tasks, safety points, parts and materials – and create time-saving PM templates. This class will also cover how to automatically generate PM work orders through MaintenanceDirect integration.
PMDirect Best Practices (Roundtable)
Learn best practices for efficiently implementing PMDirect and setting up PM templates and schedules. This class will also cover how to effectively utilize PMDirect to manage PM schedules, track costs, extend equipment life, and reduce maintenance costs.
FSDirect Training – Getting Started
Learn the fundamentals of setting up the system, including developing the MySchoolBuilding.com page, as well as creating, routing, approving and activating new schedules. Additionally, your instructor will review calendar options, such as canceling events and creating alternate events.
FSDirect Training – Advanced
Begin optimizing system usage by learning techniques for effectively managing facility requests – such as approving, routing, canceling, and changing schedules. Your instructor will also review calendar and reporting options, tips and tricks, and creating FSDirect work orders.
FSDirect Training – Invoicing
Learn how to set up and use the invoicing features of FSDirect, including how to track event costs, set up schedule fees, automate invoice generation, recover usage expenses, and post payments to your invoices. Learn how to quickly generate a variety of reports to analyze facility usage, related expenses, cost recovery and more.
PlanningDirect Training
As facility budgets continue to shrink, PlanningDirect can become a valuable tool for developing and justifying future capital needs and related funding. This session will explore the responsibilities of the PlanningDirect administrator, including how to create a building life cycle model, as well as create and track a needs registry. Your instructor will also cover how to generate a variety of helpful graphs and reports.
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