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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.

Evolving Technologies for BIM-Enabled Projects

This collection of building information modeling (BIM) presentations discusses changing technologies for BIM-enabled projects, addressing select BIM and O&M systems: Autodesk, EcoDomus, […]

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 […]

Telecom New Zealand: Case Study

Results of Telecom New Zealand’s, property selection in support of their new business model and customer approach. Review how their low-rise, horizontal […]