Introduction
The overall aim of this course is to provide participants with the knowledge, the skills and the techniques needed to perform all the essential tasks required to manage a facility. The course includes important concepts such as strategic and financial planning, engineering design, automation and maintenance. Participants in this interactive course will learn all the processes and activities required to manage a facility effectively from different perspectives; operational, environmental, contractual and technical and to make the optimum decisions for their facilities.
Objectives
BY THE END OF THIS LEARNING EXPERIENCE, THE PARTICIPANTS WILL BE ABLE TO:
- Understand the totality of facilities management as a consolidation of exercises of different functions in facility maintenance and how these affect the quality of life in a building.
- Identify key factors that contribute to effective and efficient property maintenance practices.
Training Methodology
This training course is designed to be highly interactive and participatory. To ensure maximum comprehension and retention, this training will utilize a variety of proven learning methods such as group discussions and brainstorming, icebreakers, recorded videos, case studies, and readings.
Outline
Day 01
- OVERVIEW OF FACILITY MANAGEMENT
- Defining facility management
- Role and responsibilities of the facility manager
- Facility management main activities
- Challenges and risks
- Strategic Facility Planning
- DEVELOPING FACILITY MANAGEMENT STRATEGY
- Retaining services in-house versus outsourcing
- Facility management strategic options
- Outsourcing facility functions
- Service level agreements
Day 02
- ENGINEERING PLANNING AND DESIGN
- Design requirements and layouts
- Approaches for furniture planning
- Closed plan approach
- Open plan approach
- Space and furniture considerations
- Criteria matrix
- Adjacencies matrices
- Relationship diagram
- Bubble diagram
- Block planning
Day 03
- FACILITY MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM (FMIS)
- Maintenance and Operations Management
- Emergency maintenance
- Corrective maintenance
- Preventive maintenance
- Predictive maintenance
- Facility security
Day 04
- MANAGING LARGE FACILITY
- Jobs
- Defining large facility jobs
- Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
- Developing a schedule
- Gantt chart
- Resource planning
Day 05
- FACILITY FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
- Evaluating alternative plans
- Ranking the alternatives
- Weighted factor comparison
- Facility budgeting
- Common ratios and trend analyses
- Capital budgeting evaluations