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What Grade Would Your Facilities and Facility Projects Score?
AOS USA, Inc. brings organization and structure to education facilities by implementing a computer-aided facility management system or assigning a project team to coordinate your moves, expansions, or consolidations. Let us help you!
AOS assists space planners, research directors, and other senior administrative and academic managers in reaching their strategic institutional goals.
We have a successful record of bridging the gaps between planning and facilities, analysis and operations, and administrative and academic management.
In addition to space management and analysis projects, we develop and refine institutional space policies and help institutions successfully apply technology to space-related business problems
We put focus on ensuring student learning is number one in your educational facility and your learning facilities make the Grade!
Read about our services by clicking on the links below:
- Computer-Aided Facility Management (CAFM)
- Program Management
- Project Management
- Strategic Consulting
- Space Optimization
Computer-Aided Facility Management (CAFM)
Maintaining safe, functional, and compliant facilities and related infrastructure while minimizing operating costs and maximizing potential reimbursement, can be a difficult balancing act. Given this challenge, it is crucial to effectively track, analyze, and report facilities-related information which supports strategic decision-making. Every day, educational institutions like yours efficiently perform their core mission by using the sector's leading integrated real estate, facilities, and infrastructure management solution – ARCHIBUS.
AOS is an ARCHIBUS Business partner. Learn more at www.archibus.com
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“End-users can monitor the status of work requests online and see a project's status plus the notes on the project. Before ARCHIBUS, they would have had to make that phone call to us.” — Ray Dinello |
Implement IWMS / CAFM Software
- Integration
- Design system architecture
- Install and configure Software
Configure Database - Link / Interface to other applications (SAP, PeopleSoft, Banner, ESRI, Active Directory, etc)
- Integrate with Web Portal
- Parameterization
- Configure menus and roles
- Apply Security policies
- Configure Workflows
- Adjust reports and forms
- Data and CAD drawings production
- Collect, normalize and populate data
- Polylining, BOMA/FICM standardization
Field Verification Surveys - Paper drawing conversion
- Training
- Start-up assistance
- Project Management (PMI certified)
Develop Applications
- Solution design and specifications
- Develop add-ons and custom applications
- KPI's, Dashboards and reports
- Web Solutions (ASP, ASP.NET, J2EE)
- Mobile Solutions (PDA, Blackberry, etc)
- Testing, documentation and Implementation
Support
- Technical support
- End User Application support
- On-going training and professional development
- Data integrity and consistency audits
- Ongoing Drawing and Data Maintenance
- Reporting / metrics review and interpretation
- Assist in development of standard Operating Procedures (SOP)
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Partners
- For Data Center Solutions, please visit ShowRack for addititional information.
- For Environmental Solutions, please visit TEAMS for additional information.
- Master Planning
- Programming Space
- Planning
- Cost Management
- Construction Management
Our staff resumes include a breadth of facility-related knowledge from architects, interior designers, project managers, and management consultants, to technical specialists who have many years of experience both as consultants and internal facilities staff. Our clients do not always need a full complement of staff at every level to address project needs. What is special about our firm is that we can provide the depth and quality of resources at the right time allowing us to more effectively manage costs while maintaining quality. We also offer a unique approach that combines our best-practice processes with best-in-class technology resulting in not only cost savings, but more importantly in improved overall project results.
In coordination with the client, AOS will provide program management services, and utilize tried-and-true project management techniques with an emphasis on clear communication and thorough documentation. Every project is unique, but the principles of project management remain the same across all projects; we ensure that the project is initiated, planned, executed, controlled, and closed out in a systematic manner that guarantees a predictable outcome. We sit with the owner and client, architect, and contractor team too advise and manage all aspects of the project. We use state-of-the-art tools to assist with scheduling, budgeting, scope development and control, and the quality of the work being performed. Our services include workplace concepts, space optimization, programming, and space planning. Next to people, space is the second greatest expense for most firms. Saving space is not a matter of cramming more people into smaller spaces, but rather to understand how an organization works and to look at alternatives that have great aesthetics and promote a healthy and efficient work environment.
Relocations
Expansions
Consolidations
AOS is here to help!
Space allocation and personnel relocation are recurring issues made more complex by the equipment and materials associated with research and the complex backfill issues triggered by new construction and departmental consolidation. AOS is an internationally recognized leader in facilities-related project management. We initiate, plan, execute, and control projects to meet the educator's workplace objectives.
Typical steps in managing projects include:
- Project Planning - Interviews, pre-planning meeting and scheduling workshop, action item lists and reports, budget development.
- Project Coordination - Project meetings with stakeholders in groups and in sub-committees
- Move Planning - Detailed move sequence plans, phase plans, employee and FF&E move database, orientation sessions, packets, newsletters, mover RFP, selection, contracting, and supervision.
- FF&E Management - Timeline development, installation coordination and supervision, vendor selection and coordination, assist with removal of FF&E from emptied spaces.
- Move Supervision - On-site PMs, hot line, post-move punch list and evaluation.
AOS adheres to the basic principals of project management as promulgated by the Project Management Institute (PMI). We believe that all facets of a project must be integrated and coordinated since our clients need a complete, finished product. We help clients manage project scope, schedule, budget, and quality. We do this by developing an effective project team, communicating efficiently, mitigating risk, and procuring resources that are appropriate for the project.
We guarantee our services since we combine scientific methods, positive attitudes, and a team approach to executing projects.
Competitive and financial pressures on colleges and universities require that all institutional resources be efficiently managed and focused on clear strategic goals, often included in the university or school system's master plan. Most American post-secondary schools rank campus buildings as either one or two, next to personnel, in terms of financial importance. In addition to their capital value and operating costs, buildings are the most visible symbol of the institution and play a primary role in their occupants' evaluation of the campus experience, from recruitment to departure. Because campus space can constrain or enable institutional enhancement and progress, it requires a strategic focus by senior management. AOS supports institutional managers charged with addressing these issues.
AOS understands the importance of a comprehensive space management approach that integrates traditional planning, project management, and operational functions. We take innovative approaches to the analysis of space data, occupancy, and utilization patterns; the use of space standards; and adjacency issues. We are results-oriented and seek ways to help educators and administrators apply the results of space analysis and planning in their institution's operational context. One of our primary goals is to help with using space analysis to build a bridge between planning, facilities, and other departments in ways that optimize management decision support.