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Strategic Facility Planning

Manage quality by applying Strategic Facility Planning (SFP) principles and key stages (understanding, analysis, planning, and acting) to optimize facilities and support […]

Updating Workplace Design to Reduce Corporate Costs

Learn how global pharmaceutical company, Pfizer, used a consolidation strategy to update workplace design to reduce their corporate costs and foot print, […]

Developing an IT Roadmap for Working Facility Managers

The workplace is evolving at a rapid pace with today’s talented workforce creating the need for strategies and tools to help them […]

Don’t Overlook Adaptive Reuse as a Workplace Strategy: How to Plan, the Advantages and a Case Study of Department Store to Office Conversion

During the recent “New Normal Economy” workplace strategies have focused on making the best use of existing space or consolidating operations. With […]

Does Workplace Matter? Perceived Satisfaction with Physical Workspace as a Driver of Worker Performance

Researchers surveyed 408 randomly selected office workers in an effort to understand the relationship between workers’ perceived satisfaction level with workspace, and […]

WE Case Study: Motorola

Motorola Mobility aligned their workplace to business strategy in the design of their engineering flagship in Chicago. With a focus on the […]

WE Case Study: GSA

The US General Services Administration (GSA) rightsized to align workspaces with business goals. Review their strategy for gathering data through workplace engagement […]

GSA Space Consolidation and Workplace Transformation

A presentation examining government agencies’ interest in space consolidation, including the U.S. General Services Administration’s space consolidation initiatives and ways the GSA […]

Economic Space Utilization and Sustainability by IT-based Optimization

A mathematic modeling approach is presented as a solution for automating space allocation and optimization. From the proposed data model, CAFM/IWMS software […]

Business Benefits of Capturing Actual vs. Planned Space Utilization

Improve your real estate management by determining the actual space utilization in your facility to optimize space usage and implement cost-effective maintenance […]