FACILITIES MANAGEMENT

Facilities Management Strategy

Table of Contents

Introduction1

Facilities Management Function1

Scope of Facilities Management2

Facilities Management Services3

Facilities Management Function with Organizations4

Support Services & Building Services6

Effective Facility Management6

Properties And Fixed Assets Are Managed8

Roles And Responsibilities Facilities Manager9

Principles Of Corporate Responsibility And Sustainable Facilities Management12

Tools And Techniques Of Facilities Management Function13

Conclusion13

References15

Facilities Management Strategy

Introduction

Facilities are managed by people organized to engage in activities that maximize worker productivity and minimize the facility impact on occupants and nature (Pickard 2004, p. 56). Through the work of these facility organizations or departments a built environment is created and maintained which benefits individuals and society. It is important that facility management organizations function as efficiently and effectively as possible.

Facilities Management Function

Facility management encompasses several functions managed under various organization structural designs. The structuring of these organizations managing facilities is evolving and changing as business dynamics, business technologies, and building technologies change. The drivers of these changes and conditions that facilitate the changes are the subject of this research. Efficiency usually equated to some form of less cost (Pickard 2004, p. 56). Statements were given such as to become more streamlined and efficient, to put services provided where it will be best supported, and to ''take advantages of economies of scale. Looking at functions to be performed in house or outsourced was also part of this decision. Consideration of what the organization does well and does not do well and that perhaps another company could be contracted to provide was part of the justification for change that was given. Increase Effectiveness: Similarly and almost as frequently noted as improve efficiencies as a reason for change was to become more effective.

Scope of Facilities Management

Facility management functions have been performed under various organization titles in past decades. These include building engineering, building maintenance, and real estate. Today there is a professional practice maturing that is known as Facility Management (FM). Facility management is a profession that encompasses multiple disciplines to ensure functionality of the built environment by integrating people, place, process, and technology (Oishi 2003, p. 101). Under facility management are the functions to manage the built environment.

There is a growing awareness of the impact of buildings on people and our environment. The built environment has been linked to occupant productivity. The quality of building air, light, layout, and thermal comfort all impact worker productivity. There is a further understanding and increasing concern of buildings' impacts on natural resources. Buildings are the largest consumer of natural resources, not just for construction, but for energy and materials to maintain the buildings throughout their life.

Buildings and their surrounding are often referred to as a facility. Facility is a general term that may include a set of several buildings and the grounds they occupy. Facility management is performed by people for the benefit of occupants and the preservation of the facility asset's functional purpose (Nielson 2004, p. 18).

Management is a people process. People have skills that are coordinated and combined to move the work of the organization ...