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Are Facility Professions using Dashboards?

A brief background on the use of dashboards as decision support system tools in facility planning and management, producing clear and concise […]

Sound Solutions for Wood Flooring

As the floor is the most heavily used part of a building, the authors provide FMs with sound advice on selecting the […]

GIS Best Practices for Facilities Management

This white paper identifies best practices in planning, selecting and implementing an enterprise GIS (EGIS) solution. Readers will gain an understanding of […]

Attention Facilities Managers: Reclaim Your Share of US$20 Billion

This blog post takes a look at the inefficiency of repair and maintenance activities across the retail industry and outlines how facility […]

Behind the Curtain: How FMs are Impacted by Technology in the New Converged Workplace

A look at how the convergence of data-heavy systems can affect your operational and technological infrastructure, including project navigation tips and keys […]

Just Go With It: Development Programming for Architects in a BIMIWMS World

Facility life cycle management linking the program of requirements (POR), building information modeling (BIM), and integrated workplace management systems (IWMS) to enable […]

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. […]

Novel Methods of Capturing and Killing Airborne Contamination and Airborne Pathogens

Discusses new ways to address indoor air-pollution and disease, hospital-acquired Infections, existing air-cleansing technology, airborne particle movement and capture, and novel technical […]

Building Awareness: What it means when facilities become “people literate”

New technologies such as sensors, biometric readers, voice recognition devices, satisfaction buttons, and smart materials are making our buildings more “aware” – […]

Existing Building Documentation for Owners Part I

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