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High-Performance Buildings: A Guide for Owners and Managers
By Anthony Robinson
This book provides a blueprint for action for readers making decisions about how to improve the energy efficiency and performance of new or existing buildings. Suitable for both seasoned veterans and new managers, it takes an objective and orderly approach to what is often a complex, costly, and...
July 2011 | 978-1-4398519-9-9 | Hardback (Fairmont Press)
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Production and Operations Management
Edited by Vijay Kumar Khurana
As an authoritative presentation of activities, functions, and concepts of production and operations management activities, this reference work begins with the nature and scope of production management, guiding step-by-step through production activities, such as process and service design,...
February 2011 | 978-1-4200704-8-4 | Hardback (CRC Press)
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Plant Engineers and Managers Guide to Energy Conservation, Tenth Edition
By Albert Thumann, Scott C. Dunning
Completely revised and updated, this ninth edition of a bestseller covers both management and technical strategies which can be used to slash energy costs by as much as 40% in industrial facilities. It covers cogeneration, gas distributed generation technologies, steam system optimization,...
February 2011 | 978-1-4398560-6-2 | Hardback (Fairmont Press)
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Spend Analysis and Specification Development Using Failure Interpretation
By Michael D. Holloway
A guide to reducing operating costs, this book presents a method for lowering operational costs and increasing productivity by establishing a performance based procurement specification on the components, devices, and items that contribute most to operational, downtime, and labor repair/...
February 2011 | 978-1-4398510-7-4 | Hardback (CRC Press)
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Management & Strategies for Energy Professionals Reference Library CD
By Christopher Russell, John M. Studebaker, Stephen A. Roosa, Arun G. Jhaveri, John Eggink
August 2010 | 978-1-4398535-6-6 | CD-ROM (Fairmont Press)
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Lighting Efficiency Technology & Applications
By Albert Thumann, Eric Woodroof
This practical handbook highlights the latest trends in applied lighting technologies capable of providing high energy efficiency performance in buildings and industrial facilities. It provides facts on the latest advances in lamp, ballast, luminaire and controls technologies, as well as gain...
August 2010 | 978-1-4200611-0-9 | Hardback (Fairmont Press)
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Effective Building Maintenance: Protection of Capital Assets
By Herb Stanford
This text addresses in great detail the requirements for designing, implementing, and managing programs and procedures for the maintenance of major building elements from the foundation to the roof, including interior and exterior support systems and sitework elements. Topics include facilities as...
August 2010 | 978-1-4398455-3-0 | Hardback (Fairmont Press)
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Disaster and Recovery Planning: A Guide for Facility Managers, Fifth Edition
By Joseph F. Gustin
Newly revised and updated, the fourth edition of this bestselling resource addresses the complexities of disaster preparedness and business continuity. This edition includes the latest information on dirty bombs, and chemical and biological agents and weapons. Also updated in...
May 2010 | 978-1-4398446-7-0 | Hardback (Fairmont Press)
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Lean Safety: Transforming your Safety Culture with Lean Management
By Robert Hafey
While worker safety is often touted as a company’s first priority, more often than not, safety activity is driven by compliance to legislation rather than any safety improvement initiative. Lean takes a proactive approach – it is not contingent on legislation. A serious Lean effort will tear apart...
December 2009 | 978-1-4398164-2-4 | Paperback (Productivity Press)