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Workplace Strategy: Elevating FM in the C-suite and Impacting the Bottom Line

Elevating facility management up to the board room can be challenging. One FM team at a Medicare insurance company in California not […]

Connecting the Dots Secrets for Developing Your First Strategic Facilities Plan

Define your objective and begin the planning process by following this guide of formal and informal approaches to completing your first Strategic […]

What's Your Facility's Value Proposition? Thinking and Planning Strategically

A starting point for an executive-level exchange, this piece outlines the process for defining a facility’s value proposition through strategic facility planning, […]

Procurement of Facility Management

Published by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) and the International Facility Management Association (IFMA), this professional statement and guidance note […]

FM Spotlight-Facilitating Serendipity in Design

Develop the tools to facilitate a workplace environment that promotes serendipitous creativity through collaboration and intradepartmental awareness. Generate the ‘fortunate accident of […]

High Stakes Business: People, Property and Services

This IFMA research report was created to help facility managers navigate the challenges, and identify trends and practices in the area of […]

Protecting Your Building: Blast Mitigation for Existing Facilities

A webinar provided by IFMA’s Museum/Cultural Institutions Council delivering advice from the Smithsonian Institution for FMs to implement terrorism-related risk assessment, planning […]

Improving Maintenance Efficiency Effectiveness at the University of Central Florida

The University of Central Florida (UCF) improved their facility maintenance efficiency and operational effectiveness through organizational restructuring, a new work order process […]

Don't Waste a Good Crisis

A webinar addressing lessons learned by New York FMs as a result of 2012 superstorm, Hurricane Sandy. The presentation discusses instances of […]

Preparedness: Are You Ready for the Next Disaster?

Supporting proactive disaster planning, this guide provides disaster scenario statistics, explanation of evacuation versus invacuation, and a listing of tools for crime […]