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Facility managers are expected to manage/oversee real estate as a physical asset designed to support the people who use them. 

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The Power of Leverage in Real Estate and Workplace Strategy

Too much leverage is lost in organizations due to a lack of a comprehensive real estate and workplace strategy. Corporate relocation and […]

Existing Building Documentation for Owners Part I

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

GSA Space Consolidation and Workplace Transformation

A presentation examining government agencies’ interest in space consolidation, including the U.S. General Services Administration’s space consolidation initiatives and ways the GSA […]

Economic Space Utilization and Sustainability by IT-based Optimization

A mathematic modeling approach is presented as a solution for automating space allocation and optimization. From the proposed data model, CAFM/IWMS software […]

How to Maximize the Value of Your Furniture Assets

Learn how to enhance productivity, reflect corporate culture, and enable interactive innovation that contributes to recruitment and retention of talent by properly […]

Space Measurement Standards

An overview of space measurement standards for effective property management, including the benefits of standardized building measurement, methods to define gross building […]

A Critical Review of Value Management and Whole-life Costing on Construction Projects

This paper captures the range of conflicting assumptions on the theory and practice of value management (VM) and life cycle cost (LCC). […]

IFMA and BIM for Life Cycle Management

An overview of task force directives and outcomes: asses the need for FM BIM strategy by IFMA, identify users, their experiences and […]

Updating Workplace Design to Reduce Corporate Costs

Learn how global pharmaceutical company, Pfizer, used a consolidation strategy to update workplace design to reduce their corporate costs and foot print, […]

SCAN Health Plan: Case Study

A case study on SCAN Healthcare’s model for a flexible space concept aligning SCAN’s consideration of human factors with non-hierarchical workplace design […]