FM productivity constraints remain a barrier for most public sector areas.
FM productivity constraints remain a barrier for most public sector organizations, presenting barriers to efficient sustainment & new builds.
To address rising sustainment (repair, renovation, maintenance) and new build costs, robust, integrated Planning, Procurement, and Project Deliver Frameworks arecincreasing needed to maximize resource utilization.Yet public sector organization are still not providing the Leadership, Commitment, and Accountability in this area.
Legacy policies, practices and systems are the biggest barriers to requisite change management, the latter capable of delivering 30%-40%+ reductions in financial and environmental waste. Transformation, thought sorely needed, does not appear to be on the horizon.
Challenges to Sustainable FM in the Public Sector
1. Lack of real property owner leadership, commitment, and accountability
2. Planning, Procurement, and Project Delivery Teams not ready, or not willing, or not being allowed to implement efficient methods and technologies.
3. Barriers to collaboration among owners, architects, engineers, and builders.
4. Poor information management
5. Lack of clear priorities
6. Lack of awareness and education relative to efficient lifecycle facilities management.
The importance of financial, environmental, and social governance is clear, however, measurable improvement remains nonexistent.
Pathway to Sustainable FM in the Public Sector
1. Organizational Leadership, Commitment, and Accountability
2. Integrated Planning, Procurement, and Project Delivery
3. Support of Change Management
4. Adoption of robust Programmatic project deliver methods
5. Use of objective, current, granular, Local Market, labor, material, equipment and productivity data
6. Mandatory initial and ongoing multi-format, multi-level training in collaborative FM lifecycle total cost of ownerships asset management methods
7. Quantitative performance metrics
8. Regular independent audits
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