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FM Management System Standard: It's a BIG Deal!

The release, in 2017, of the first international FM standards contributes directly to the sustainability, productivity, liveability and resilience of the built […]

When the Smoke Clears: How Planning Enabled Business to Continue During the Northern California Wildfires

How ready are you for a big disaster? As a small business, when we undertook the ISO Business Continuity Management Systems certification, […]

The Art of Telling Your Story 2.0

Understand what is important to your organization and how focus your message. Understand how your organization makes financial decisions and how that […]

Emergency Response Management: A Plan for Failure

Explains the importance of Emergency Response Management and planning, including the creation of developing an Emergency Preparedness Plan, a Hazard Vulnerability Plan […]

Navigating Gender Differences in the Workplace

With increasing awareness and navigating gender in the workplace, we will discuss how men and women can learn to work together to […]

See Something, Say Something...to Everyone: Crowdsourcing Emergency Communication

Today’s communication systems are often no better than an elementary school phone tree. Property Managers may reach out to the facilities managers, […]

CMMS is Changing the FM Game: A Real Life Example

This presentation follows the story of how one company took the opportunity to bring in a CMMS, computerized maintenance management system, solution […]

Don’t Overlook Adaptive Reuse as a Workplace Strategy: How to Plan, the Advantages and a Case Study of Department Store to Office Conversion

During the recent “New Normal Economy” workplace strategies have focused on making the best use of existing space or consolidating operations. With […]

Weathering Climate Change: Resiliency Strategies for Existing Buildings

In 2017, there was a shift within the facilities management community from sustainability to resiliency. The effort now is to counter the […]

FM Service Management: Technology Essentials for Each Generation

It used to be that our challenges were in developing a single strategy to deploy client facing FM Technologies in the workplace. […]