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The FM-Negotiation Lifecycle: From Challenge and Conflict to Collaboration and Calm

Body language and verbal communication are critical to successful relationships. The secret is to learn as much as possible about Body Language […]

Transforming Complex Facilities with Knowledge Transfer Through BIM

This whitepaper asserts building information modeling (BIM) as a facility management tool for laboratories and complex facilities to better address current and […]

How Workplace Design Can Galvanize 21st Century Business Strategies

Can workplace design improve collaboration between multi-generational workers, while also supporting an innovative business model? This study shows how office design helps […]

Prioritizing Functionally Diverse and Geographically Dispersed Facility Upgrades

By studying the variables of asset upgrade prioritization, this piece recommends the use of a priority matrix, tested against a scale, to […]

Sell Your Projects with CFO Jargon

Learn how to develop meaningful facility-related ratios to measure performance; justify your projects using finance terminology and CFO- speak; and explain how […]

Transforming the Workplace at SCAN Health

This white paper describes a major redesign of a standard corporate office environment at SCAN Health Plan. The focus of the redesign […]

Redefining the Executive View of Facility Management (FM)

The executive view of facility management continues to evolve as the industry itself shifts and adapts to new influences, technologies, and challenges. […]

Transform How Facilities Information is Accessed in the Built Space

Building renovations and retrofits generate documentation, which grows over the years. When on-the-go facility teams need this information at their fingertips, they’re […]

Integrating BIM with FM at NASA LaRC

Learn how the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) integrated building information modeling (BIM) […]

Controlling Off Hour Occupancy Costs in a Competitive Economy

Advice for controlling off hour occupancy costs: Learn to identify the relative cost of off hour occupancy compared with other space utilization […]