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Observation: Turning What you See Into Smart Information

As a facility manager, we care for our buildings by watching and looking. It is our job to notice the dirt on […]

Sustainable Asset Reliability: The Foundation for Maintaining Your Certified Facilities

Meet the challenge of long-term sustainability and maintainability of your building and systems by addressing these essential keys, from management vision to […]

Working with Change Management in Service Outsourcing

Service outsourcing creates many changes. For the employees who will be outsourced, the changes are significant. But also for the rest of […]

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 […]

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. […]

Trends and Developments Within Facility Management

This white paper deals with further trends and developments within facility management based on the fieldwork of the Vienna University of Technology, […]

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. […]

HR Issues to be Considered When Outsourcing Services

Although HR issues are crucial determinants of the success of service outsourcing processes, they are too often paid inadequate attention. The area […]

Industrial Engineering Principles for Facility Management

Referencing work measurement methods principle to industrial engineering, this whitepaper proposes that FMs can achieve dramatic productivity improvement by implementing work measurement […]