ABSTRACT
The World Wide Web (the Web) is rapidly transforming many business practices. The purpose of this chapter is to show readers how facility management tools provided by application service providers (ASPs) via the Web may represent a simple, cost-effective solution to their facility and energy management problems. All participants in the management of a facility, from building operations staff to tenants, can get convenient access to information and tools to meet their needs more effectively by simply using a web browser and an Internet connection. Further, energy tools that are integrated into these facility management software environments become readily accessible and can be linked to other tools for managing work orders for getting energy-wasting problems fixed. The chapter also describes how the Federal Energy Management Program (FEMP) is working to make such energy tools readily available.
