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Conduct Unbecoming

Conduct inappropriate for a professional, respectful workplace costs money and drives valuable employees away. Set behavioral criteria for yourself and your colleagues […]

Improving Building Operating Decisions: A Tool to Help Make Smart Decisions

Review of a question-driven software service tool used to help FMs, FM consultants and other FM professionals prioritize energy, maintenance and human […]

Clean Indoor Air Sustainability and Energy Savings: Yes You Can Have It All

An explanation of clean indoor air sustainability as achieved through the principles of impingement, interception and diffusion, with advice on filter efficiency […]

Making Sense of BIM for FM: Managing for the Building Life Cycle

Learn about building information modeling (BIM) and how it can improve the effectiveness of your building lifecycle management. Review the current state […]

Cost Analysis Over the Life-Cycle of Properties

IFMA Switzerland proposes a life cycle cost (LCC) analysis model and associated LCC analysis tool that allow comparisons between different design options […]

Smarter Buildings Through Integrating Facility Management

Learn how to use an integrated facility management program to understand the facility infrastructure, define objectives, develop a plan that is informed […]

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) […]

Indirect Cost Savings When Outsourcing

Cost reduction remains the most important reason behind outsourcing decisions. While indirect cost savings are rarely identified and realized as part of […]

Computer-Aided Facility Management (CAFM) Systems: I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream for Credible Data!

Computer-Aided Facility Management (CAFM) systems are presented as a solution for real estate portfolio management through improved space planning, allocation and management. […]

Multiskilling and Job Satisfaction in Outsourcing

Companies who provide facilities management through an integrated solution have to commit to multiskilling of their staff in order to be effective. […]