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FM Frequency: Cutting Costs And Adding Flexibility
In challenging times, repurposing or reconfiguring facility spaces can help.
FM Frequency: Powerful Realities
Columnist Jeff Crane ponders long-term alternative energy options in response to cap and trade possibilities
FM Frequency: There’s Something In The Air…Or Is There?
In this expanded FM Frequency offering, Jeff Crane explains how an indoor air quality complaint triggered this hypothetical investigation.
FM Frequency: Feverish Forum Recap
In an unprecedented act of humility (and a touch of insanity), FM Frequency Columnist Jeff Crane interviews...himself!
FM Frequency: Suburban Facilities Need Love Too
FM Frequency Columnist Jeff Crane makes the case for smart economic development in suburbia.
FM Frequency: Lean Budgets = Creative Training…
TFM Columnist Jeff Crane argues that professional development shouldn't come to a screeching halt when there's no money to participate in far flung conferences.
FM Frequency: Elementary, My Dear Watson (Part 2)
FM Frequency Columnist Jeff Crane presents this conclusion to his moldy vacation cottage investigation.
FM Frequency: Elementary, My Dear Watson (Part 1)
In the first part of this facility riddle, Crane challenges readers to don their thinking caps.
FM Frequency: 20 Years—Looking Ahead
In honor of TFM's 20th anniversary, Crane makes some daring predictions for the next two decades.
FM Frequency: Conserving Dollars
As the need to do more with less increases, Crane offers some clever cuts in essential services.
FM Frequency: Asking Tough Questions; Seeking Honest Answers
This month's column from Jeff Crane drifts into the realm of the radical.
FM Frequency: Singing The 1040 Blues…Or Was That A Hymn?
Tax preparation is an unexpected religious experience for FM Frequency Columnist Jeff Crane.
FM Frequency: To LEED Or Not To LEED? It All Depends!
Crane shares this interactive session with a thought provoking reader.
FM Frequency: From the Outside Looking In
A peek inside the fictitious life of temporary facility manager, Ms. Y (courtesy of "Dear Diary").
FM Frequency: For The Love Of Buildings
Confessions under the knife: anesthesia exposes the trippy side of Crane's facility sensibilities.
FM Frequency: That’s What I Like About LEED
The new year is revealing an optimistic side of FM Frequency Columnist Jeff Crane.
FM Frequency: A Few Of My Favorite (Web) Things
They may not be raindrops on roses, but there are some things that make Jeff Crane happy.
FM Frequency: Rolling With The Facilities Budget
There are alternatives to the traditional method of budget preparation.
Green Trends: The Color Of Energy
Before making purchases, facility managers need to define what the use of energy efficient technologies can do for their office building's carbon footprint.
FM Frequency: Relief From Green Fatigue
Crane humorously dissects his latest energy saving project: re-lamping for fun and profit!
FM Frequency: It’s A Special Season!
This month, budget season (no, not football season) is at the center of Crane's fall follies.
FM Frequency: Remembering 9/11 Six Years Later
New tragedies at the former Deutsche Bank building rekindle public emotion at Ground Zero
FM Frequency: Summer School
FM Frequency Columnist Jeff Crane ponders electricity and reliability
FM Frequency: Finding The Glass More Than Half Full
Crane offers a historical perspective to paint the future of facility management in a positive light.
FM Frequency: Who Needs An “Expert” Consultant?
There may be times when getting a second opinion makes you look that much better...at least that's what FM Frequency Columnist Jeff Crane thinks.
FM Frequency: The Facilities Machine–Master Or Myth?
Urban Legends may (or may not) exist in facilities too!
FM Frequency: Did He Say Pedal Power?!
FM Frequency Columnist Jeff Crane says there are hidden energy savings in every facility...sometimes you just have to look for them.
FM Frequency: Questioning Boston’s “LEED”-ership
FM Frequency Columnist Jeff Crane wonders if facility managers in Beantown will throw Code 37 requirements into the harbor?
FM Frequency: Recipe For Success
Think you have what it takes to be a facility manager in today's demanding times?
FM Frequency: Disaster Cometh…Or Not!
FM Frequency Columnist Jeff Crane proclaims it's the end of the world as we know it, again!
FM Frequency: Lean Or Green?
FM Frequency Columnist Jeff Crane wonders, do facility managers really have to make a choice when trying to reconcile budgets with sustainability goals?
FM Frequency: Bridging The Gap
Closing the divide between the design process and long-term operations and maintenance is the topic this month from FM Frequency Columnist Jeff Crane.
FM Frequency: Giving Thanks!
Want an excuse to deny wacky requests? FM Frequency Columnist Jeff Crane suggests you just thank your insurance and liability teams!
FM Frequency: Real People, Real Stories
If you think you've heard it all when it comes to interviewing antics, FM Frequency Columnist Jeff Crane suggests you keep reading!
FM Frequency: The Myth Of Interoperability
FM Frequency Columnist Jeff Crane asks, "When will systems really start speaking the same language?"
Conference Room Trends: Room To Grow
For an updated conference room, it is necessary to integrate new technologies with supporting furniture.
FM Frequency: Great Suppliers Can Be Excellent Business Partners
FM Frequency Columnist Jeff Crane feels it's possible to gain significant advantages from outsourcing relationships.
FM Frequency: Business Continuity
The magic formula? Planning + Practice + "Live Fire" Exercises = The Right Approach, according to FM Frequency Columnist Jeff Crane
FM Frequency: My Own Private Firestorm
In this expanded version of FM Frequency, Crane wakes up in a cold sweat to the realization that truth can be stranger than fiction.
