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Raising the Bar 3: From Operational Excellence to Strategic Impact in FM

This third installment in the ground-breaking "Raising the Bar" research series by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, published in collaboration with […]

The Role of FM in Images of Hospitality (2012)

The Netherlands Standardization Institute (NEN) standard for FM recognizes hospitable practices as a component of FM. This study uses participant-led photography (PLP) […]

Improving Organizational Productivity with Building Automation Systems: Research Report

Learn how to demonstrate that smart, integrated technologies produce organizational productivity gains in addition to energy and environmental savings.

Gender-Balanced Teams Linked to Better Business Performance

Organizations can only reach their full potential when their leadership team reflects the diversity of their customers, more than half of which […]

The Workplace Management Framework

The WMF is designed to be applied to all types of workplaces and embraces high tech workplaces, (including Power Stations, Data Centers […]

Investigating the Facility Management Professional Shortage

Survey-based research on the importance of creating accredited degree programs that focus on identification of FM recruiting pipelines and training for a […]

Energy Efficiency Indicator: IFMA Summary Report (2012)

Results of the 2012 Energy Efficiency Indicator (EEI) survey of global energy management decision makers providing trend insight on energy management, energy […]

Transferring Industry Approaches to Resource Management in Hospitals

Swiss healthcare industry research based on comparative literature review and evaluation of different industry approaches to resource management, suggesting the service allocation […]

Exploring the Current Trends and Future Outlook for Facility Management

A study of internally, externally, and organizationally-driven trends, serving as a forecast of competitive FM skill sets, anticipated FM issues, and positional […]

Distributed Work Research Report 31

Since the increased participation in distributed work strategies has led to inconsistency in terminology used in this arena, IFMA has documented both […]