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Performance Contracting in the Public Sector and the Real World

A brief outline of performance contracting process steps, addressing request for proposal, performance contract components and an account of the author’s personal […]

The Value of Strategic Decision Making: Adding Value Up and Downstream of Building Design and Construction

Facilities managers have to make difficult decisions about how to allocate limited resources against their overall facility need. Strategic consulting provides value […]

The Leadership Dilemma: How to Unlock the Potential of the 4-Generation Workplace

• Learn the REAL reasons for generational conflict in the workplace. • Understand why leadership is both the problem and the solution […]

Performance is the New Community: Why Enterprise Customers Want More From Agile Workspaces

The original intent of co-working spaces was to provide a place for startups and freelancers that was both economical and focused on […]

The How and Why of Benchmarking

While benchmarking is a well-established strategy that organizations have been using to manage performance for almost four decades, the field of facility […]

Improving Facility Management Operations Through Optimization of Performance Metrics

Use a customizable maintenance management system (CMMS) to measure performance in organizational effectiveness and efficiency. Then, optimize performance metrics to establish standards, […]

High-performance Buildings Need High-performance FM

Quality frameworks and performance management systems are recommended for high-performance facility mangers to align organizational strategy and the delivery of economical, safe […]

Significant Parameters for Building Automation Performance

With the goal of defining a model-as-performance-measurement-tool for building automation systems (BAS), the study identifies and illustrates issues affecting BAS and the […]

Dyadic Relationships for Leaders in Facility Management

A collection of 16 case studies and in-depth interviews examine how leaders practice relationship building with subordinates, including whether different qualities in […]

Assessing the Operational Performances of Implemented Green Water Strategies

This paper presents a proposed assessment methodology (PAM) to assist facility professionals in making cost-effective operation and maintenance decisions based on quantifiable […]