Blog: Maintenance & Operations

Summer isn’t just beach season — it’s peak construction season. For local, city and state officials, the planning stage of summer construction projects is already underway. Here’s what public sector professionals can do now with construction project planning to set themselves up for success in the summer.

As we prepare for a new year, we want to countdown our top ten resources for 2018, to make sure you didn’t miss out on our most popular topics and insights. We put our hard hats on, counted on the data and asked a lot of questions to provide you with more answers than ever before.

There is a trend towards more collaborative processes throughout the construction industry to avoid the communication silos that crop up with traditional delivery methods. One of Gordian's Enterprise Account Executives, David Rasberry, explains the connections between Job Order Contracting and Integrated Project Delivery and how to achieve Lean Construction with JOC.

David Spooner, Manager of Facilities for Duluth Public Schools and Dwayne Pierre-Antoine, Gordian Regional Director, co-presented “Facilities Maintenance: Failure to Plan Is Planning to Fail,” a webinar hosted in partnership with Facility Executive. Read a few key takeaways from the webinar.

Today, on IFMA’s World FM Day, our Sightlines, a Gordian company President, Mark Schiff celebrates and shares our gratitude for the unsung heroes responsible for maintaining our built environment – the facilities departments we all have the pleasure to work alongside.