The Educated Approach to Facilities, Maintenance, and Operations

Higher education faces budget cuts, rising costs, aging infrastructure, staffing issues, and high expectations. ABM helps tackle these challenges by providing expert cleaning, engineering, and infrastructure solutions, offering a unified approach to meet strategic goals with confidence.

May 21, 2025
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Three Educated Approaches to Facility Operations
Improve campus performance, raise student satisfaction, and significantly reduce operating costs.

Higher education institutions face shrinking budgets, higher costs, aging infrastructure, staffing challenges, greater expectations, and more. The pressure is on to find partners and solutions that can deliver consistent results.

ABM helps colleges and universities address these challenges head-on with confidence. Our experts work with you to deliver a comprehensive, unified approach to achieving your strategic goals through cleaning, engineering, and infrastructure solutions.

Our smartphone-equipped custodial staff deploys where they're needed most with a Digital Master Sanitation Schedule (MSS) using our latest app, ABM Connect. This improves response time and provides greater transparency across campus operations.

ABM engineers safeguard your systems and improve indoor air quality, improving cognitive performance for students and faculty by 61%. These solutions also contribute to lowering your carbon footprint in support of campus sustainability goals.

Thinking about capital improvements? ABM's comprehensive financial solutions give you the ability to address critical facility needs without the need for capital investment. Our expertise in developing creative financing strategies allows educational institutions to generate capital within their existing operating budgets, taking them from reactive to proactive through long-term capital improvement programs.

Why ABM?

ABM brings a century of experience working with over 200 higher education clients nationally. We help campuses integrate technology with smart maintenance practices, achieve sustainability objectives, and access funding to accelerate critical infrastructure initiatives.

Our experts deliver proven solutions so you can focus on your core mission.

Smarter staffing

ABM is the industry expert in facility recruitment. Our national profile and access to qualified talent means we hire 4.6 times faster than the average university.

Brochure-worthy results

Beautiful, efficient buildings and grounds are integral to an institution's identity. Colleges that prioritize campus appearance and partner with ABM see 2x more applications, 7% higher student retention, and 6% greater student satisfaction scores.

Budget flexibility

Reducing your buildings' average energy use by 32% does more than help campuses reach sustainability goals-it helps administrators better allocate resources to strategic priorities.

ABM Solutions

  • Cleaning & Maintenance
  • Landscape & Turf
  • Parking & Transportation
  • Facilities engineering
  • HVAC & Mechanical
  • EV charging
  • & more

Talk to an ABM expert today at 866-624-1520 or visit ABM.com/HED

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