Forum Session: A context for achieving long-term facilities management sustainability

John Nelson illustrates why much current thinking about sustainability amounts to symbolic "window dressing" and charts where a realistic and effective course correction must begin. He provides tools--the triple bottom line, carbon accounting, and life cycle analysis--and profiles project examples to equip planners to make changes today that provide short-term impacts while transitioning their organizations toward real-world, long-term sustainability. He also sets out an infrastructure and operations sustainability strategy that provides real immediate, intermediate, and long-term results.

• John Nelson , Consultant & Adjunct Professor -