Workshop Overview
It has been said that, in some organizations, up to 50% of the money spent on Facilities Management services in a building is wasted. Unfortunately nobody knows which 50%!
It is vitally important to ensure that every dollar spent on Facilities Management really counts. Many organizations sprinkle their budget thinly across all services rather than concentrate on those areas where money really needs to be spent. This often results in poor standards of service delivery and poor reliability. With many services, both technical and non technical to deliver, a significant failure of any one of them can be disastrous to the business.
In order to resolve the problem effectively, there are a number of tools and techniques available. These will help to ensure cost effective facilities management but should also ensure that contractors and service providers work in the most cost and time effective ways. Effective expenditure and control should also improve reliability of the building and the systems in it.
A further concern relates to the issues of energy efficiency and sustainability. Both of these important areas have an increasingly significant effect upon facilities management expenditure- an effect that will become more important throughout the world in the coming years. Moreover, energy savings partly depend upon the existing building but more importantly on how the building is run. Too often, facilities managers fail to understand the processes and equipment involved and as a result they fail to achieve realistic savings.
This course is aimed at facilities management practitioners and professionals who wish to understand more about how they can become more effective in their companies. It is also aimed at personnel who have recently become, or are about to become, professionals in the said industry. It will discuss and develop ideas and strategies for both soft services (non technical) and hard services (technical). Furthermore, this workshop caters to those with or without previous technical knowledge.
Workshop Facilitator Profile
The trainer is a Director/ Senior Manager with 30 years of European project management, estates and facilities management expertise at Board level. He has specialized in the effective establishment and control of a broad range of hard and soft FM services for both multi - and single site blue chip, high tech organizations throughout much of the world. He also operates as a facilities management specialist in all areas of technical benchmarking and auditing.
One of his many significant specializations is in the sphere of providing strategic and technical facilities management orientated training to all levels. Much of this training has been provided on public courses but there have also been specifically tailored training courses for a number of major companies. He is a Chartered Electrical Engineer, a Member of the Institution of Engineering and technology and a Member of the British Institute of Facilities Management. Subsequently he joined ICI, (Imperial Chemicals Industries) as a senior Facilities Manager in the corporate headquarters in London.
He regularly presents training courses specifically aimed at facilities managers on topics including: An Introduction to Facilities Management, An Introduction to Hard FM Services, Intermediate Hard FM Services, Establishing Building Maintenance Regimes and Auditing, Negotiating Skills, Communications Skills, Cutting FM Costs without Reducing Service Standards, Project Management, The FM Toolbox, Property Management and Surveying, Cost Estimating for Non Technical Staff, and Maintenance Management.
Company Clients includes
Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI)Corporate Centre | Exxon Mobil | EMAAR Property Dubai | IKEA | London International Stock Exchange | Royal Bank of Canada | Credit Suisse First Boston |Royal Bank of Scotland | Manweb Utility Company | CEGB utility company | Bloomberg | Dun and Bradstreet | British Telecom | University of Sheffield | Imperial College, London | Sheffield Hallam University | Cisco Systems | Experian | Jones Lang LaSalle | Colliers CRE | HSBC | UK Government | Interserve Contractors | Guardian Newspapers | Trust House Forte hotels | Cedel Luxembourg | Birmingham Airport | NTL Communications | RS Components
Key Benefits of attending this Workshop
This course will help you to:
- ESTABLISH single points of failure in your building
- LEARN the most important parts of your business and IDENTIFY whether they are maintained correctly
- DEVELOP and IMPROVE your Facilities Management strategy
- EFFECTIVE communication with maintenance technicians to better understand the issues
- EXAMINE those areas of service delivery where significant savings can be made
- UNDERSTAND the need for sustainability in buildings --- and the ways this can be achieved through better building design
- EVALUATE your company’s current approach to sustainability and know what needs to be done
- GAIN fresh insights by undertaking group discussions and exercises
- DETERMINE building costs that cannot easily be reduced
- WORK more effectively with contractors and service providers.
- ENHANCE your service providers and suppliers performance to serve you better
- CONTROL energy expenditure and ACHIEVE savings
Free take away
Each participant will receive an exclusive take home Facilities Management Toolkit!
Who Should Attend
Head of Facilities Management | Head of Maintenance and Operations | Head of Engineering and Production | Head of Property and Asset Management | Head of Energy and Environment | Head of General Services | Head of Planning and Development | Facilities Manager | Maintenance Manager | Utilities Manager | Electrical Manager | Plant/Site Manager | Area Manager | Distribution Manager | Security, Health and Safety Managers | Asset and Property Managers
