Practical guides for running facilities better.

Playbooks, templates, checklists, and field-tested guidance for teams managing maintenance, vendors, budgets, compliance, and multiple locations.

The Facilities Manager's Guide to Preventive Maintenance

Build a PM program your team can actually keep up with.

From asset inventory and service intervals to technician workflows and completion tracking, this guide walks through a practical preventive maintenance program from the ground up.

What are you trying to improve?

Start with the problem that's sitting on your desk right now.

Latest guides

Deep dives for the questions facilities teams are solving every day.

11 min guide

How to Build a Preventive Maintenance Program From Scratch

A practical framework for assets, intervals, ownership and execution.

9 min guide

How to Score Vendor Performance Across Every Location

The metrics, cadence, and conversations that keep vendors accountable.

12 min guide

Building an Annual Facilities Budget That Holds Up

Forecast spend, set NTE limits, and leave room for the unexpected.

Templates & Tools

Don't build every process from scratch.

Useful tools your facilities team can take back to work today.

Learn from people who actually run facilities.

Practical lessons and conversations with facilities leaders about the problems you don't learn from a software manual.

Facilities U

How Do You Build a PM Program That Actually Works?

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Building Strong Facilities Operations Across the U.S

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Designing Reliable Facilities Operations in Healthcare

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What facilities teams are reading.

A quick path into the most useful topics across maintenance, vendors, operations and technology.

  • AI Beyond the Buzzwords: What Facilities Teams Can Actually Automate

    AI + Facilities · 10 min

  • 17 Facilities Management KPIs Worth Tracking

    Operations · 10 min

  • How to Evaluate a CMMS

    Technology · 10 min

  • Why Preventive Maintenance Programs Fall Apart

    Preventive Maintenance · 10 min

  • Running Facilities Across 50 Locations Without 50 Different Systems

    Multi-Location Ops · 10 min

Find the lesson you need next.

See how LeanSite turns these processes into one system across work orders, assets, vendors, budgets and locations