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The Disaster Experience QuickFire for Facility Managers

Learn the basics of business continuity planning, including principles of emergency management, business continuity outlining and planning produce, questions for self-evaluating disaster […]

Building Information Modeling (BIM) for FM: An Industry Survey

This presentation presents discovery of current methods that FMs use to manage and track assets; identify attributes for Building Information Modeling (BIM) […]

Respecting Human Limits: Densification Research and Design

We are often asked to make office space as efficient as possible. Our clients want to know “What can we do in […]

Grabbing the Attention of the CFO: Finance for Dummies

Does your CEO and CFO speak a foreign language? Do you know how to grab their attention so that they will approve […]

Budgeting for the FM Department

Many FMs are not comfortable to develop, present and discuss annual, operational, and capital budgets with their management and clients. The presentation […]

The $6.7 Million Drinking Fountain

The UNM Comprehensive Cancer Center, constructed in 2009, is a five story, 206,000 GSF, outpatient clinic, occupied in 2010. We embarked on […]

How to Preserve an Iconic Building: Harvard Medical School’s Gordon Hall

Iconic flagship university buildings play a special role on American university’s campuses. They are often the visual symbol of the college or […]

Are You Giving Your Workplace Clients Enough Office Space? Revelations and Calculations about Circulation

Are you correctly calculating circulation for today’s modern work environments? If not, you may be experiencing significant challenges to accommodate the space […]

How to Surf Chaos...Instead of Drowning in It

Chaos and change are a part of our lives. In the FM community, we face quite a bit of it every day. […]

Developing an Effective Scope of Work for Operations and Service Contracts

This presentation examines challenges FMs face in preparing a Scope of Work, the “Silver Bullet” of Scope Development, operationally-focused procurement tools, and […]