Welcome to the last post in our series on Building an Asset Management (AM) culture. ...

Welcome back to our latest blog series focused on providing tips for you and your...

Welcome back to our blog series on Building an Asset Management (AM) Culture.  Last week,...

At Roth IAMS, we've seen time and again that a strong Asset Management (AM) culture...

At Roth IAMS, we work with a wide range of public sector and institutional clients—from...

It’s been about a year since we launched our Don’t Say DM campaign—and what a year it’s...

I had the pleasure of speaking at the annual APPA National Conference in New Orleans...

One of the things that has regularly surprised me, as we have expanded our services...

Last week, I talked about how I recommend that, as opposed to simply trying to...

It's funny.  Over the past few months, I find myself using similar advice when I...

Last week, I highlighted the upside of the Facility Condition Index as a benchmarking tool...

Facility Condition Index (FCI) has been and remains one of the most common metrics that...

In my last post, recognizing that things are likely to be very dynamic, I outlined...

With new tariffs already in place on steel and aluminum and potentially more tariffs to...

When I was recently getting my hair cut, the barbershop, which has TVs all over...

I had to laugh this week as I had essentially the same conversation inside Roth...

As more and more organizations are looking to do an equipment level inventory of their...

As I sit here and type this we are into the last few days of...

As we near the end of the first month of 2025 I hope that everyone...

Well, we started this series of posts on Equipment Inventory & Tagging way back in...

So here we are at the end of 2024.  To be honest, I can hardly...

 Let's talk some more about QR codes. With QR codes, you have the ability to...

We are back after our holiday hiatus! How are you feeling?    Earlier in my career...

Last week I talked about using a simple sequential equipment tag numbering sequence, as opposed...

Continuing the series this week on issues that organizations should consider as they look to...

Anyone else have a tune running through your head right now…….Oh oh oh, oh oh...

In my last post I talked about how you can leverage your maintenance information to...

This current series of posts that I am writing are all associated with the shift...

Having attended numerous conferences this Fall I have been struck by one key change in...

State-Level  Last week I shared some of the Higher Education and K-12 industry  facility-related associations...

Last week I wrote about the benefits of joining an industry association. I thought I...

As I write this I am in the middle of Fall conference season.  I am...

As I have talked about many times, one of the biggest challenges for institutions when...

Last week I told Part 1 of USask's facility and infrastructure Asset Management story.  This week we...

Last week I had the pleasure of co-presenting with Jennifer Meneses of the University of...

I am not sure how it got to be mid-September already. Living in Florida my...

The topic of habits has been very lucrative in the personal and professional development space.  The...

Depending on where you live, you are either nearing the end of summer and getting...

Well here we are a month into our series on maximizing the value of your...

Today I am going to continue my blog series on getting the most out of...

This multipart post is focused on helping people navigate what can be a very stressful...

As hard as it is to believe summer of 2024 is here already.  We are...

If you have ever spent any time with me you have probably heard my story...

Last week, I talked about why we want you to support our campaign to ditch...

In recent weeks we have launched our Don't Say DM (Deferred Maintenance) campaign.  This was...

Coming out of discussions and presentations from the APPA National Conference in Nashville that I...

Here we are, our 100th blog post!  For those of you that have been on...

This week I continue my series where I share ideas and thoughts based on my...

This week I continue sharing ideas based on conversations I had at the recent APPA...

I recently attended an APPA conference in Nashville and sat in on a presentation by...

While I was at the gym today I was listening to a podcast interview with...

Here we are, the final post recapping our Ask Bill Anything webinar.  Thanks for taking...

In the realm of asset management, one question always looms large as was the case...

How often should you reassess your buildings? This is an interesting question we encounter frequently...

Continuing with our blog series highlighting the questions and answers from the Ask Bill Anything...

We are going to continue our session where we expand on the questions and answers...

This week we will be answering the third question we received in our Ask Bill...

[video width="1920" height="1080" mp4="https://rothiams.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Roth-IAMS-Uncle-Sam-RC1.mp4" loop="true" autoplay="true"][/video]   In a recent webinar I did called “Ask...

Last week we began by making the case that you must understand the nature and...

One of the most critical elements of any asset management program is a high level...

This blog is going to be posted while I am on vacation with my family. ...

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Although I (hope) possess more than four pieces of wisdom worth sharing, we have come...

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Welcome to my second post of the most influential wisdom that I have gained (so...

I was having a conversation recently with a friend about the best pieces of wisdom...

It's hard to believe that we are into the first week of 2024!  I for...

First off, let me start by saying I am not a heavy consumer of social...

With the launch of our Preventative Maintenance (PM) program at the end of Part 3...

Here we are with our third post on the two biggest hurdles to getting started...

After last week's short interlude which allowed me to climb up on my soapbox and...

Last week, I started a post on Equipment Inventory and Preventative Maintenance Planning, which I...

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After wrapping up another two-month blog series, I am excited to add a new category...

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Now that we have introduced and dove into the details of each of the different...

Last week I introduced the Element-Level Inventory (ELI) scope of work for facility condition data,...

We have finally come to the most detailed and resource intensive methodology for collecting facility...

Well, it only took me six posts to finally get to a point where you...

In our last two posts, we explored the two most common types of building models...

As part of our on-going series on the different types of facility condition datasets, this...

Now that we have gone over how building modeling works, I wanted to provide a...

This series of posts is going to explore the different types of Facility Condition datasets,...

I have been working with a State-Level University system over the last couple of months...

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As I write this, I am sitting in the Knoxville airport.  It's a nice regional...

On the wall of my home office, you will find a Serigraph Cel (a form...

Last week's blog focused on how organizations can find themselves in a situation where they...

A great many of the people I talk to complain about their CMMS (Work Order)...

I hear a lot of people say that the world is getting more and more...

I am always very pleased when a client is successful in securing additional funding to...

This one is going to be a short post, but I felt that it was...

When I set out to write this series, I knew it was going to be...

"Patience My Young Padawan," the wise and famous Obi Wan Kenobi said to his apprentice,...

We made it!!! 15 Posts, nearly 4 months and we are at the final "Peeling...

Here we are, the outer layer of the "Onion". All of the work that we...

Going from a "list of needs" provided in an engineering report (i.e., a condition assessment,...

Nearly every public sector institution across North America (and around the world I presume) has...

I am probably going to get a lot of heat for this post, but I...

A nearly universal challenge that organizations face is a lack of sufficient funding to address...