Facilities Management Procedures and Practices

Start Date End Date Venue Fees (US $)
03 May 2026 Roma, Italy $ 4,950 Register
30 Aug 2026 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia $ 4,500 Register
25 Oct 2026 Dubai, UAE $ 3,900 Register

Facilities Management Procedures and Practices

Introduction

Facilities managers have therefore responsibilities for providing, maintaining and developing many services. These range from property strategy, space management and communications infrastructure to building maintenance, administration and contract management. Facilities management includes space, infrastructure, people and organization. This highly popular training course will feature how to establish, implement, manage and continually improve your facility department to get the best out of the facilities within the given boundaries of costs, performance and other important factors during its total lifetime. The course is designed to develop delegate’s skills in managing facility staff and corporate assets while minimizing risk exposure in the workplace. As the Facilities Management (FM) function continues to evolve, this training course offers the latest thinking in the profession, right balance between asset performance (functionality, availability, reliability, safety), and will tackle specific issues encountered on the ground and apply best practices in discussing real solutions.

This training course will feature:

  • Proper knowledge of the basic principles of facilities management
  • How to apply best practices according to several norms
  • Understanding how to operate and maintain facilities as a “business within a business”
  • Sharing of facilities management experience
  • Insights regarding current state of facilities management processes and possibilities to improve them

Objectives

    By the end of this training course, participants will be able to:

    • Understand the basics of facilities management
    • Understand how to draw up a preventive maintenance concept, based on risk
    • Develop strategies to decide when and what to outsource
    • Understand the different types of contracts
    • Identify and monitor the facilities management-processes performance

Training Methodology

This is an interactive course. There will be open question and answer sessions, regular group exercises and activities, videos, case studies, and presentations on best practices. Participants will have the opportunity to share with the facilitator and other participants what works well and not so well for them, as well as work on issues from their own organizations. The course is conducted online using MS-Teams/ClickMeeting.

Who Should Attend?

This training course is suitable for a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:

  • Professionals who are responsible for the management, operation and maintenance of facilities (buildings, production facilities, utilities, power and water distributions networks landscaping, etc.)
  • Professionals aiming to update themselves on the basic elements, best practices and implementation aspects of facilities management

Course Outline

Day 1: An Overview of Facilities Management

  • The Facilities Management process in general

  • Facilities Management as a business within a business

  • Facilities phases, planning and realization

  • Relationship between Facilities Management and Asset Management

Day 2: The Basic Elements of Facilities Management

  • Facilities Roles, the current state of your Facilities Management processes

  • Types of planning

  • Strategic and annual planning, Life Cycle Cost principles

  • Budgeting principles

  • Work planning and control, performance management regarding the workflow

Day 3: Preventive Maintenance and Maintenance Strategy

  • Disaster recovery plans

  • Maintenance concepts

  • Understanding RISK

  • Risk Based Maintenance, the methodology

  • Steps in developing an effective & risk-based maintenance strategy

  • Typical inspection and maintenance tasks for utilities 

Day 4: Outsourcing and Contracting

  • What to outsource and what not

  • Choosing the right contractor

  • How to manage this

  • Contract types

  • The contracting cycle

  • Service Level Agreements 

Day 5: Performance Monitoring and Benchmarking

  • Continuous improvement

  • Target setting as a starting point

  • Monitoring performance: development and use of Key Performance Indicators

  • The Facilities Management Balanced Scorecard (FMBSC)

  • Assessments, audits and benchmarking; practical exercise in auditing

  • Course review/Wrap up

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