Solutions Exchange

Wednesday, September 23
7:45 am - 9:00 am

Solutions Exchange is a round-robin style speed learning session that allows you to interact with other facility professionals on the critical topics that affect today's buildings. Take a seat among peers and join in an exchange of ideas, facilitated by some of the top manufacturers and experts serving the facilities industry. After 20 minutes, the roundtable disperses so that the next batch of table discussions can begin. You have the opportunity to participate in up to three table discussions. This peer-to-peer event is held Wednesday, September 23 7:45 - 9:00 am.

“Portable Air Conditioning – When and How to Use It”

At this exchange you’ll learn how portable air conditioners fill a crucial role for climate control, and how to use portable air conditioning as an affordable solution for backup, emergency, supplemental, primary and disaster recovery cooling.

“Energy Efficient Building Automation”

With rising energy costs and tighter operating budgets, the ability to monitor and assess energy use is critical, but installing conservation measures with no thought to comfort can result in failure. This exchange will provide insights into striking the right balance.

“Successful Strategies for On-Call Construction Contracts”

Explore different on-call contract structures including time and materials, cost plus, and unit price. Talk about which contract you use, or discover which one might be right for you.

“Innovative HVAC Designs”

At this exchange, hear about a new technology that reengineers how you move air, and offers all the benefits of an ideal fan system: reliability, energy efficiency, low maintenance, small footprint, and low acoustical signature.

“Hand Dryer and the Hygienic, Green Facility”

Discuss the role of high-speed energy-efficient hand dryers in helping a facility go green and lowering its carbon footprint in addition to saving time, money and maintenance.

“Capital Planning Best Practices”

Attend this exchange to learn how to effectively plan for long-range facilities renewal through the use of facility condition analysis and life cycle planning measures.

“Long Term Door Solutions”

Discussions will focus on the prevention of basic problems for new door openings and how to correct problems in existing door openings.

“Water Efficiency Solutions”

Learn how water-efficient products can help reduce costs, achieve LEED status and reduce our impact on the environment.

“Façade Restoration - Exterior Aluminum Restoration & Maintenance”

Discuss how to avoid costly mistakes when preserving or enhancing clad systems with the use of clear or colored high-performance coating.

“Optimizing your CMMS”

Managing your maintenance is not a "do once and it's done" point in time; neither is computerizing it! You need to define your success target(s), review what you have accomplished and tune up what needs improvement to meet these targets. This exchange discusses the review process and how to get the greatest returns.