Facility management

I have enjoyed reading, The Facility Management Handbook and Building Type Basics for College and University Facilities. These are two books that have made me have a better appreciation and respect for the work that goes into facility management and how campuses lay out strategic campus plans to ensure that costs are contained, but to also ensure that campuses look great to attract students, but to also remember that there are infrastructures that need to be in place to also preserve the campuses, but also modernized them based on the goals and mission of a university. I agree that a well-functioning campus is the result of a careful planned and keen managed plan (Neuman, 2013). It is very important for campus administrators to realize…

The most important difference between the importance of performance indicators to business personnel and the performance indicators that are important to the facilities personnel is the difference in the terms used to describe building performance contrasted with what business managers consider business drivers. Moreover, performance measures for facilities management focuses on inputs to the delivery of facilities-related services; in other words, data that is focus on efficiency of the…

Boone Newell “Facility management is a profession that encompasses multiple disciplines to ensure functionality of the built environment by integrating people, place, process and technology.”(What is Facility Management) It is a key part in the ability of the organization or company to succeed, with poor management of facilities makes it that much more difficult to succeed. Being a facility manger in sport industry demands involves being an effective leader and manager. You will encounter a…

1 Explain the legal requirements relating to the management of office facilities. There is a six pack of requirements relating to HASAWA. The primary legislation act is the Health and safety at work act 1974. It places a duty on all employers "to ensure, as far as is reasonably practicable, the health, safety and welfare at work" of all their employees. The other regulations of the ‘six pack’ include: • Management of Health and Safety at work regulations 1999 This act places a duty on employers…

Extra-curricular activities, AP classes, and jobs…what do they all have in common? They take vast amounts of time out of a student’s day. Each time I think about students who have to juggle all three of these, one thought always comes to mind- how do they do it? Just considering the load of stress a student who goes to school and takes at least two AP classes, has to stay after school for a sport or a club, and then goes straight to their job has makes me worried for them. Especially seniors;…

cycling infrastructure, jobs in green and healthy transport (as outlined by the WHO) are created. These types of jobs include retail and maintenance in bike shops, manufacturing, and construction. Jobs in tourism, planning, and energy are also formed. The largest of these job areas is tourism and indirect jobs that result from areas more attractive to cyclists. Cities that have high cycling value, and well established bicycle infrastructure, find these two areas to make up the majority of…

Best Practice: Teaching – Family Model University of Arkansas Stephanie Clark Methodist Family Health Counseling Clinic is an organization that provides healthcare services focused on various emotional and behavioral challenges individuals and families can face. Methodist provides many different services all over Arkansas that range from inpatient to school-base services. They also have eight Therapeutic Group Homes that provide a family-like setting while children are also able to…

More than 60% of service and facility management experts expect that more companies will outsource facility management services to facility services providers. To create the cutting-edge competitive differentiator, Facility Solutions Providers will need to go beyond the traditional maintenance of physical facility infrastructures and invest in innovation to set a part the workspace and workplace environment serviced. I predict that artificial intelligence will fully facilitate to incorporate…

Perspective The case study entitled Evaluating hospital design from an operations management perspective, by Vos, Groothuis, & Merode, (2007), attempts to determine the most efficient layout of a hospital’s patient working spaces within a proposed hospital complex. The case study purports to indicate best physical floorplan layout properties, based on analysis and experimentation of patient flow, operational management strategy, logistical concepts, and future technology growth. The case…

A system-based risk management program’s goals will be designed to support the organization’s mission, vision, and strategic plan as they directly relate to risk management and patient safety. Success factors include the development of a system that has the ability to oversee the reporting of near misses, potentially unsafe conditions, and adverse events. The program will follow the directives of governing organizations such as the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Department of Health and…