Facilities like buildings, utility plants, power & water distribution networks, production plants, parking lots and landscaping become more and more flexible, complex and expensive. That is why Facilities Management is a huge business nowadays. It is one of the largest budget expenses and therefore one of the major sources of cost savings. However not at all costs, because facilities are a major asset too.
This course shows you how to apply the Best Practices to organize and manage a facilities department as a successful “business within a business”. The goal is to operate and maintain the facilities effectively and efficiently, to integrate function, people, and place. The course is about finding the right balance between asset performance (functionality, availability, reliability, safety) and costs, about the right balance between operating and maintaining the facilities in-house or contracting it out.
At the end of this course the participants will be able to:
Evaluate the current state of the delegates’ facilities management process
Understand the need for a proper operational & maintenance control center
Learn how to draw up a (preventive) maintenance concept, based on risk
Improve strategies to decide when and what to contract out
Accomplish an outsourcing strategy which helps you in realizing better results
Learn how to monitor performance and results
Understand how to operate and maintain their facilities as a "business within a business"
Learn how to be able to share experience and knowledge with others
Facilities managers
Building managers
Risk department
Administration department
People who interested to gain such great knowledge in facilities management.
The Facilities Management process
Facilities Management as "a business within a business"
Facilities planning
Facilities realization
Facilities operations & maintenance
Individual assessment - the current state of your facilities management process
Strategic & annual planning
Design, build and maintain recycle
Operations & Services
Work planning & control
Maintenance & repair
Information management
Understanding risk
Risk-Based Maintenance - the methodology
Seven steps in developing an efficient and risk-based maintenance strategy
Defining maintenance tasks
Case study
Typical inspection & maintenance tasks for utilities
What to outsource and what not
Choosing the right contractor
How to manage this
Contract types
The contracting cycle
Service level agreements
Continuous improvement
Target setting as a starting point
Monitoring performance: develop and use Key Performance Indicators
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