What is Facilities Management?
Facilities Management is one of the fastest
growing professions in the UK.
Facilities Managers are responsible for many of the buildings and services
which support businesses and other types of organisation.
Facilities
Management encompasses multi-disciplinary activities within the built
environment and the management of their impact upon people and the workplace.
Effective
Facilities Management, combining resources and activities, is vital to the
success of any organisation. At a corporate level, it contributes to the
delivery of strategic and operational objectives. On a day-to day level,
effective facilities management provides a safe and efficient working
environment, which is essential to the performance of any business – whatever
its size and scope.
Definition of Facility Management = Facility
Management is a profession that encompasses multiple disciplines to ensure
functionality of the built environment by integrating people, place, process
and technology.
Building a career in Facilities
BIFM
Training is the most comprehensive and authoritative source of facilities
management [FM] Training and FM Learning & Development Services in the UK.
There are courses designed to help Facilities
Managers develop professionally and support them as they encounter new
challenges throughout their career.
Roles can include: Health and Safety,
Procurement, Technical services, Operations, Estates, Front of House,
Facilities Co-ordinator, Facilities Managers.
Day to Day in Facilities Management
Within
this fast growing professional discipline, Facilities Managers have extensive
responsibilities for providing, maintaining and developing myriad services.
These range from property strategy, space management and communications
infrastructure to building maintenance, administration and contract management.
Facilities Managers are responsible for the
buildings and services that UK plc uses on a day-to-day basis. They are
responsible for the specification of an incredibly diverse range of products
and services.
They also need a very broad range of knowledge and skills and are therefore
keen readers of many industry specific management and trade journals