Lisa Walt, Ph.D.

Operational Excellence, Leadership

The evolving facilities workforce pipeline

Research shows that while college education remains a nationwide preference, interest in trade roles is beginning to resurge.

Operational Excellence, Leadership

A primer on benchmarking methodologies

Learning to track key performance indicators requires an understanding of advanced benchmarking methodologies.

Operational Excellence

Survey explores facility outsourcing practices

Data from the American Society for Health Care Engineering show the top services contracted by facilities managers.

Operational Excellence, Leadership

ASHE research highlights the field's response to COVID-19

Health care designers, constructors and equipment suppliers stress innovation and collaboration to help control the pandemic.

Operational Excellence, Leadership

COVID and social comparison: Making sense of the unknown

ASHE research dives into how facilities prepared for and have been impacted by COVID-19.

Influence of social comparison on survey respondents

2019 Salary Survey respondents rank their salaries against peers.

Operational Excellence, Leadership

Survey finds nimbleness a key to career success

An overview of findings from the ongoing ASHE Career Collaboration Project survey.

Operational Excellence, Leadership

Gender differences show in ASHE survey

Women contribute to growing a younger workforce as they join a historically male-dominated field.

Facility Engineering, Fire and Life Safety

Technology outpaces exit sign requirements

A preview of the results from ASHE’s Exit Sign Inspection & Burden Survey.

Compliance and Operations

Getting involved in UL standards development

How to propose a new Underwriters Laboratories standard or suggest changes to an existing one.