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Looking for accredited career colleges, technical schools, and universities in Maryland offering Facilities degrees. Facilities managers and facilities technicians provide planning, design and management for all custodial and construction projects.
Going to college in the friendly Tidewater state of Maryland means being just a hop, skip and jump from Washington D.C., one of the nation's most interesting cities. You are also a short drive from the Chesapeake Bay, our country's largest inland waterway and estuary, with its abundant birdlife, delicious clams, oysters and crabs, and outstanding opportunities for boating, waterskiing and kayaking.Facilities Planning and Management program prepares students to enter professional practice as facility planners and workplace strategists in large organizations, as well as consulting and real estate firms.
Facilities Planning and Management program focuses on how we can best plan, design, and manage facilities in a sustainable way in the context of the communities and environment of which they are a part. The interest is in the relationship between facilities and the people who use them. "Sustainable" includes but goes beyond consideration of factors such as consumption of energy, water, and resources by buildings, and the environmental impact from buildings. The approach of the program is utilizes knowledge and methods from the fields of planning, design, real estate, business, and environmental psychology and organizational behavior.
Facilities Planning and Management program is design to create learning opportunities that will enable our students to be leaders in planning and managing high performance buildings that reflect an equal concern for the environment and the people who use and are affected by these facilities.