sustaining that

High Maintenance
Woman
Derek Philip Haniffa Ali-Parris Angelique Balbosa-Philip
High Maintenance
Defined
 Fashion vs
 Style
Fashion is temporary. Style is timeless.
Fashion is about the clothes. Style is about the wearer.
Fashion means looking Style means looking like
like the latest trend. yourself

Fashion is about what is on Style is about what

the outside. is on the inside.
Fashion is passing. Style is enduring.
A fashionable woman A stylish woman changes
changes her look often. her look rarely (if ever).
 Fashion has more to do with what is
current and trends, while style is your
own personal take.
 Style is knowing what items would look
good on you, and how to put an outfit
together nicely, like always knowing
what shoe to wear with this or that outfit.
And forging your own "look"
 Looking
 Good
Does it mean keeping up with the latest
trends?
 Does it mean making sure you’re always
wearing the latest “It” items?
 Or does it, in fact, mean dressing in an
original way that suits your own
personality and body type?
 Heavy T
 Bumper?
Looking Good = f (body type)
 What’s Appropriate for Your body
what’s right for you?
○ shape (heavy T bumper gyal ?)
where you are (indigenous - culture, climate)
what makes you comfortable
what are your principles ?
 Building Style
 What’s your building style?
 What drives your fashion sense?
adherence to accepted norms of practice/
performance criteria?
current trends?
iconic?
value based?
mix?
They Look Pretty … Are They Worth
It?
 Developing Building Values

Higher Education & Sustainable Development

 The goal of the United Nations Decade of

Education for Sustainable Development (2005-
2014) is to integrate the principles, values, and
practices of sustainable development into all
aspects of education and learning. UNESCO

 This educational effort will encourage changes in

behaviour that will create a more sustainable
future in terms of environmental integrity,
economic viability, and a just society for present
and future generations.
 Sustainable Development
 Sustainable development meets the
needs of the present without
compromising the ability of future
generations to meet their own needs.
 1987, “Brundtland Report” – the Report
of the
World Commission on Environment and
Development
.
 Balancing Act

Improved Development
Quality of Life
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
 Ideals of Sustainability
 intergenerational equity
 gender equity
 just and peaceable societies
 social tolerance
 environmental preservation and
restoration
 poverty alleviation
 natural resource conservation.
 UNESCO Principles
 Build education systems that are:
Inclusive
Equitable
Of high quality
Supportive of sustainable development
Promote access and quality for all learners
What’s hot
right now?
 Sustainable
Development
 Green Building
 Renewable
Energy
 LEED
 CPTED
 Second Nature
E d u c a t i o n f o r S u s t a i n a b i l i t y
Green Building Elements
 Does this make
my butt look big?
 Refining your building style
Look in the mirror
Ask the sales people for advice
○ (caution: they want to sell you stuff!)
Take someone with you (Participation)
○ Trusted opinion
 Ladder
of Citizen
Participation
8.
8. Citizen
Citizen Control
Control
Degrees of 7.
7. Delegated
Delegated Power
Power
Citizen Power
6.
6. Partnership
Partnership
5.
5. Placation
Placation
Degrees of 4.
4. Consultation
Consultation
Tokenism
3.
3. Informing
Informing
2.
2. Therapy
Therapy
Non
Participation
1. Manipulation
Source: Arnstein,1969
How
How aa project
project formulation
formulation can
can go
go wrong
wrong ifif too
too many
many “experts”
“experts” bring
bring in
in
their
their ideas
ideas and
and if
if contact
contact with
with beneficiaries
beneficiaries isis lost.
lost. (UN
(UN Document)
Document)
 Good

Underwear
Foundation ‘garments’
depends on core business
○ Victoria Secrets? – pretty but ….
 Good fit (retrofitting vs purpose built)
 Planning
 Men are from Mars?
 Women: Hard to understand?
 Men: Understanding challenged?
 Understanding our HMW
 Know what one’s requirements are.
Visual interest? (brute force architecture)
 Adopt the right attitude to design
(picking a style) and maintenance
 Minimize maintenance and operation
cost.
Marks & Spencers vs Primark
Elements of School Plant
 Building Underwear:
Design Considerations
 Site assessment and selection
 Development Density
 Community Connectivity
 Public/ alternative transportation (parking,NMV,fuels)
 Protect / restore habitats
 Maximise open space
 Stormwater management
 Light pollution
 Multi-user facilities
 Water use (low volume fittings,dual flush,grey water)
 Water efficient landscaping
 Renewable energy (solar, wind, a/c cf natural air and light)
 Waste management (storage and management, recycling)
 Materials choice (rapidly renewable materials)
 Local procurement
 Student spaces (MIT)
 Crime
CPTED
 Your HMW: Pros and Cons
 Pros
 she looks like a million bucks
 you look good because she looks good
 A daily challenge (mental stimulation)
 Cons
 she knows she looks like a million bucks
 You can’t slack off
 she is a slave to trends
 she has no sense of humour
 she can’t be satisfied (the gift that keeps on taking)
 Plastic surgery may be required (retrofitting)
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Is She a Keeper ? $
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What do you See?
Economics of Greening
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How High is High?

MEASURING MAINTENANCE

Haniffa Ali-Parris
How Much is She Costing You?
CMMS
CMMS
 The Best Things in Life are Free!
 Improved communication with / service to our
internal and external customers.
 Value added reports to the boss
 If it isn’t measured it isn’t done
 Learning Curve
 Challenges—data entry, training, human resource
deficiencies
 Benefits
○ Identification of loopholes in the system
○ Opportunity to create and implement customized
procedures/ processes
 Benefits of Free
CWORKS
 Determine and document workflows
 streamline operations
 Preventive maintenance facilitation
 Assess whether CMMS is efficient and/ or effective to
support all facilities services to your campus
 Evaluate other CMMS software
 Know what you need
 Ignore the ‘bling’
 Train staff and ensure a right attitude (understanding and
commitment) towards facilities management
 scheduling of preventive maintenance
 recording details of maintenance
 be more proactive than reactive
 develop systematic approach to dealing with requests
through helpdesk
 Challenges

 Liaison and cooperation with technology

services department to run sw.
 Staffing/ training
 Buy-in of technical operations staff
 Change organisation culture
 Banner
 Fixed Assets module
 Banner
 Fixed Assets module
COSTAATT’s official software (intergrated—
student, HR-payroll, Finance(Procurement,
AP, AR, Fixed Assets
Fixed Assets Module—stores all data
pertaining to an asset (spec., warranty,
service contract, supplier, acq. Dte.,)
○ Provides knowledge of assets which will be
inputted into CMMS and used for specific
maintenance procedures
 APPA
Association of Higher Education Facilities Professionals

 List Server
Shared knowledge and best practice
 Levels of Clean
 Levels of Ground & Maintenance
Service
 Facilities Condition Index (Audit)
 Education and Training
 Computer power consumption
 24 day – 1200kw per year or 1600 lbs CO2/yr
(EPA stats 1kwh electricity ~ 1.4 pounds CO2)
 How much time spent at Computer in 8 hr day?
 Power off PC at end of day (folks don’t like this
– boot time and IT updates)
 Low power mode enabling with Wake on LAN
 1acre of trees required to absorb 4 tonnes CO2
 1 car produces 5 tonnes CO2/yr
 Adaptors and led’s on equipment uses power
once plugged in
Thank You

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