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The systematic approach to gathering and evaluating information from a variety of sources to get a complete and accurate picture of an area of interest.

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Navigating Retirements and Labor Shortages in the Facility Management Industry

The facility management industry relies heavily on deep knowledge of buildings and equipment. But with retirements and labor shortages occurring simultaneously, there’s […]

Digital Services: A guide to making data-driven decisions for your facilities

A guide to how connected experts help you make data-driven decisions for your facilities to run continuously, efficiently and sustainably.

How Occupancy Data Transforms the Way We Operate Buildings

This report is meant to help building owners and operators understand how to best use occupancy data and what it can do […]

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) […]

The Future of Technology in Facility Management: Today's Differentiators are Tomorrow’s Best Practices

As leaders of commercial real estate’s technology evolution, facility professionals must harness data generated by buildings to operate them as efficiently as […]

Occupancy Outcomes Why the project begins after occupancy and why tracking outcomes is imperative

In this presentation, we will discuss how the AEC industry struggles with meaningful transformation because of a key gap in its knowledge- […]

Construction to Maintenance: Leveraging FM Data through the Building Life Cycle

In today’s real estate environment, organizations are tasked with providing premier workplace environments for a variety of reasons. Attraction of new employees, […]

Data Integration: Building a Digital Ecosystem for FM Success

Learning Objective 1: Identify challenges in addressing data integration and data aggregation issues for FM. •Learning Objective 2: Define the components of […]

Existing Building Documentation for Owners Part I

A presentation of the IFMA Information Technology Council outlining methods, with case studies, for building documentation.

Best Practice for Data Center Management

Learn about the importance of data center maintenance, including best practices and process organization, selection of professional maintenance providers, and industry tips […]