Fundamentals of Facility Management

Life cycle of a construction projects consists of many phases starting with idea, feasibility study, preliminary design, detailed design, construction, commissioning, occupation and finally demolition. The occupation part is the most important and costly phase since it will be occupied by people who require at most comfort. During this stage the project needs to be maintained in order to suitable for human living In addition to daily operations such as cleaning, the facility requires a lot of planning including preventive and corrective maintenance, space and financial planning and energy management. These are the fundamentals of facility management. This workshop will concentrate on the fundamentals of facility management in order to rise the awareness of the participants about this important issue of managing facilities. The workshop will cover the following topics:

w What is facility management

w Traditional role of facility department

w Characteristic of Successful facility manager

w Types of organizational models

w One location one site model or multi sites

w The role of the facility manger

w Functions of the facility management

w Strategic activities of facility management

w Maintenance plan and schedule

w Maintenance organization

w Types of budgets

w Workload calculations

w Benchmark comparison

w Data in facility management

w Business cycle

w Facility management financial contribution

w Budget showing project cost requirement

w Site considerations

w Closing check list

w Negotiation checklist

w Data presentation

w Space plan