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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 […]

Service Innovation in the FM Industry

Innovation is one of the top challenges for the facility management industry. Despite having improved over the past 10 years, FM companies […]

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 […]

Architectural Preservation at Boston College Campus: A Systematic Approach

The systematic approach used for architectural preservation at Boston College, involving documentation of existing conditions, thorough analysis of collected data, and preparation […]

Good Governance Creates Great Leaders

Review a model and guidelines by which governance, a quality process for internal/external operations and relations, may be instituted by industry leaders […]

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. […]