Brief History of Facility Management The origin of Facility Management can be traced to the Era of scientific management and explosion in office administration, the introduction of computers in workplaces in 1960s and the energy crises highlighted the importance of cost of space (bifm.org.uk, 2011). Following these catalytic events, Since late 1980s, FM has gradually […]
Critical environments can include operational buildings, or areas within buildings, such as data centres, hospitals, manufacturing plants, and trading floors (such as a stock exchange) among others. Critical facilities are the systems that support the effective and efficient operation of these environments. These systems include, but are not limited to: electrical infrastructure, BMS and monitoring systems, UPS equipment, […]
An important component of facility management (FM) is the administration of managed security services. It is key not only to safeguard the facility but also to its operation and profitability. However, in order to understand some of those areas, it is necessary to define “managed security services” due to the various definitions that exist. In […]
Evolution of Facilities Management Ask any FM and they will tell you that the face of Facilities Management has changed greatly over the last decade, resulting in businesses no longer looking at the financial cost of support Departments in general as money through gritted teeth. For those unaware, Facilities Management is, of course, a profession […]
Facility Managers should try to maintain a significant role in Business Continuity – they manage the 2nd largest and most important business “assets” (after IT) on which day-to-day business operations rely. Many Facilities Management (FM) departments are often not included from the planning process, either because BIA surveys skew a focus toward IT dependencies and […]
Our society is changing. ‘Us’ is becoming the new ‘me’. Access to items is becoming more important than actually possessing them. We are currently in the midst of a transition to a circular, sharing economy in which we make more efficient use of everything we already have. We are now looking to share, lend/borrow and […]
The conceptualized trend of Hospitality and Facility management offers value and benefits to the clients, Now days across the world the zings of the outsourced hospitality are leaned with a very strong sense of community, and we want to stay. Current business intelligence enables us to anticipate, identify and react to changes in each of […]
Facilities Management is the practice of supporting and enhancing the modern day businesses’ core practices and ROI by focusing on all aspects of the business. Leading facilities managers must wear many hats and wear them all well. Through the efficient management and modernization of an organization’s assets and procedures, today’s FMs make their company relevant […]
In the facilities management (FM) function, use of a balanced scorecard enables companies to evaluate the performance of their external providers against multiple criteria (Figure 1), help set alignment and focus, identify improvement opportunities, enhance performance reporting, and conduct constructive discussions with their FM providers. In a sense, the balance scorecard process for FM service […]
How does a large, diverse, and dynamic Facility respond to the constant requests for new and additional space? This is one of main parts of Facilities Management: Space Planning. The facility planning role involves programming, working to understand how the space was used previously, the current status of the space, and what the future plan is […]