Facility Management Metrics, FM², was founded by Matt Adams, a professional operations and management consultant specializing in facility management for large institutions and non-profits.  Mr. Adams worked with more than 200 institutions and nonprofits for more than 20 years.  Matt Adams is the recipient of his professions highest award: at the APPA conference in Phoenix, July 2002, Adams was awarded the “Eagle Award” for lifetime achievement.  This award had not been awarded for the past twelve years. 

A Registered Professional Engineer in various states, Mr. Adams holds a degree in industrial engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.  In 1996, Mr. Adams was named to The Academy of Outstanding Engineers in Georgia.  In addition, he is a member of Georgia Tech’s College of Engineering Advisory Board, which governs academic and fiscal policy for the College.  Mr. Adams was inducted into Atlanta’s “Outstanding Fifty” in 1994 for his civic and business contributions to the city.  Matt Adams is a member of the Board and Faculty of the Georgia Tech College of Integrated Facility Management.  Matt Adams is a full-time columnist for the Facility Manager Magazine and a frequent contributor to a variety of trade publications including The Business Officer, The Talking Stick, and School and College Planning.  Mr. Adams recently published a book, in conjunction with APPA, entitled Successful Funding Strategies for Facility Renewal.  He has also published Integrated Facility Management, from McGraw Hill, and, also in conjunction with APPA, Outsourcing’s Role in Facility Management.  Mr. Adams chaired and was the editor of the APPA taskforce that was formed to publish Zero-Based Maintenance Staffing Standards, to be published later this year.  Since October of 2006, Mr. Adams has written for Maintenance Solutions Magazine, and has begun authoring and overseeing their magazines Maintenance Solutions BLOG on a weekly basis.

Matt Adams was a frequent speaker for various national associations in the field, including APPA, NACUBO, and ACUHO-I.  He spoke locally for organizations like OPFMA in Ohio.  He spoke for the APPA Institute, the Institute for Finance, and in the area of facility renewal and management.  He conducted on-site seminars for subscribing institutions and his firm provides onsite training and seminar services for facility management organizations.  Mr. Adams delivered new policy proposals and funding increase requests to many local school district, county, state, and federal agencies and legislative bodies on behalf of his clients and the industry in general.  

Mr. Adams is an expert in the following fields:
Maintenance Operations Design and Management Consulting
Zero-based maintenance staffing determinations
Privatizing/Outsourcing Analysis and Implementation
Facility Condition Audits and Capital Renewal Budgeting
Space Management and Planning
Facility Management Computerized Information Systems 

Publications

Matt Adams has published extensively on facilities management issues in higher education.  He writes a regular column on facility asset management for Facility Manager Magazine, the bi-monthly publication of APPA: The Association of Higher Education Facilities Officers.  He is also the author or co-author of several books:

Effective and Innovative Practices for the Strategic Facilities Manager
Matt Adams, P.E. Co-author
This latest book published by APPA in 2014 focuses on the known best practices employed by our industry today.  Matt Adams wrote the chapter titled; “Physical Plant Public Relations.”  This chapter explores a number of best practices related to plant department communications, reporting, information exchange, public relations, transparency, and accountability.

Operational Guidelines for Educational Facilities Maintenance
Matt Adams, P.E., Co-Author, Editor
This book, published through APPA, is a guide for colleges and universities that will aid in the establishment of zero-based maintenance staffing standards.  It outlines correct standards for establishing zone maintenance operations and describes how this procedure can help in the budgeting process and make the best use of resources.

Successful Funding Strategies for Facility Renewal
Matt Adams, P.E.
As a follow-up to APPA’s study on campus facilities conditions in the United States, Matt Adams interviewed study participants to find schools that have successfully managed their deferred maintenance deficit.  Case studies of seven campuses and a school district illustrate how organizations can retain the value of their capital assets through creative approaches and the support of upper administration. 

Integrated Facility Management
Matt Adams, P.E., Contributing Author
This comprehensive publication by McGraw-Hill covers every modern aspect of facility management.  From human resources to preventive maintenance, it explores the latest trends and best practices in institutional facility management.

Matt Adams has published more than 100 articles in national publications in the area of Institutional Facility Management.   


by Lindsay Wagner, Matt's colleague at FM²