Erik Carl Backus- Doctor of Philosophy
- Managing Director at Clarkson University
Erik Carl Backus
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Managing Director at Clarkson University
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Introduction
Erik Carl Backus currently works at the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Clarkson University. Erik does research in Civil Engineering. Their current project is 'Facilities Decision Making'.
Current institution
Additional affiliations
November 2014 - present
October 2011 - October 2014
Education
January 2018 - May 2023
Clarkson University
Field of study
- Engineering Science
Publications
Publications (21)
Purpose: The Facility Decision Making Process (FDMP), as described in this paper, is a framework based on decades of proven effectiveness in analogous military applications. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate key factors which justify the need for the FDMP before describing the FDMP.
Design/methodology/approach: This paper conducts a literat...
In 2019, the New York Olympic Region received the first Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) for Communities Certification (gold) for a rural multi-jurisdictional region comprised of Lake Placid Village, North Elba Town, the Olympic Regional Development Authority, and the Lake Placid School System. Much of the work involved in this...
Demands on asset managers to maintain the mission of the organization while meeting the requirements of increasingly more diverse consumers, escalating budgetary realities, and the threat of failure from aging assets require an asset management professional's response to be beyond the 'business as usual' model. TCO brings a new strategy that allows...
Facilities Informatics is the intersection of facilities, information technology and management practices to achieve better facilities/operations. Facilities Informatics involves the application of information technology to facilitate the creation and subsequent use of facilities related data, information and knowledge. This Technical Report helps...
The US construction industry has difficulty in attracting and recruiting personnel. Many who enter the in-dustry are lacking management and leadership skills critical to success. Missouri University of Science and Technol-ogy conducted a study to determine what factors influence the decision of a college student to enter the construction industry....
New York State has nearly 5.3 million buildings, and all of them are vulnerable in some way to the impacts of climate change. Understanding these impacts is critical, because risks to buildings not only threaten individual lives but also pose threats to community‐level resilience. This chapter examines the impacts of climate change on buildings and...
New York State Climate Impact Assessment chapter 4 on Buildings. This comprehensive report encompasses the entire state of New York and current, and projected impacts of climate on the building stock of the state including recommendations for future climate, projections, and adaptation.
Buildings support the social infrastructure in which New Yorkers live, learn, and work, and they host essential
services like health care and education. This chapter reviews the best available information sources to quantify
what is known about impacts of climate change on New York State’s buildings sector observed to date,
impacts projected in the...
If you have been frequenting the pages of Facilities Manager magazine over the last decade, you might have seen a pattern or theme emerge: there’s a lot on our plate as facilities professionals to decide. Lander Medlin, APPA President & CEO, has been hammering home how much needs to be done and how we, as educational facilities experts, need to be...
T his chapter will discuss the evolution of technology in the last two decades and subsequent acceleration of the development and adoption of facilities-related technologies. Modern facilities departments use many technologies to realize operational and energy-related efficiencies for budget savings and better facilities performance. Implementation...
The APPA Informatics Team is working to help institutions grow in their capacity to use their own data to make better decisions. This article lays out a particular hypothetical case and invites the APPA members to submit questions to be a part of an ongoing series “Dear APPA Informatics”.
Natural Events Vulnerability Assessment conducted in conjunction with NYS Climate Smart Communities
Career Army Engineer Officers have the opportunity to compete for Advanced Civil Schooling (ACS) after Company Command. This is tied to post schooling utilization. For those heading for an assignment in the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), care should be taken to ensure schooling choice aligns best with eventual utilization and further into thei...
USING DISTRIBUTED GREEN DATA CENTERS AS A DISPATCHABLE LOAD FOR CLOUD HOSTING & ENERGY SERVICES A Unique Business Method Approach to Supporting the Implementation of Distributed Energy
We propose a Decision-Guided Energy Investment (DGEI) Framework to optimize power, heating, and cooling capacity. The DGEI framework is designed to support energy managers to (1) use the analytical and graphical methodology to determine the best investment option that satisfies the designed evaluation parameters, such as return on investment (ROI)...
"This thesis focuses on the difficulty the construction industry has had in attracting and recruiting engineering and construction professionals. Many of those who enter the industry are deficient in project management, leadership, and construct-ability skills. Gathering the right kind of personnel to be responsible for multi-million or billion dol...
