Sustainable facilities management is the allocation of financial, environmental, and other organizational resources in the most efficient way possible.
Attainment of sustainable facilities management involves creating an environment for internal and external planning, procurement, and project delivery teams that fosters productivity, communication, collaboration, and innovation.
This requires building trust and respect among team members, a culture that promotes high performance, systems thinking, and a robust suite of processes, workflows, and tools.
People, Process, Information, and Technology are core development areas. While they are all interrelated, People come first, then Process, and Information. Technology is last! The role of Technology is to enable the consistent deployment and management of processes, workflows, and information to lower the cost of doing so. Far too often Technology is viewed as a solution with the result typically being failure.
The quality of the outcome, defined by quantitative and qualitative metrics, is the measure of success.
If you are ready to provide leadership, commitment, and support to enable sustainable facilities management, let’s talk.
www.4bt.us – Sustainable FM Solutions
- Positive Culture
- Sufficient Capability, Capacity and Skills
- Equitable and Aligned Contractual Frameworks
- Fully Transparent, Shared, Common Data Environment (CDE)
Positive Culture
Adopt collaborative methods that enable the contribution and knowledge of those doing the work as well as the growing and retention of knowledge throughout internal and external planning, procurement, and project delivery teams.
Commercial Frameworks
Long-term, mutually beneficial contracts that focus all players on outcomes and are supported by operations manuals/execution guides.
Capability, Capacity Skills
A coordinated revamp of formal and professional education/training to address all aspects of lifecycle total cost of ownership asset management. Focus upon understanding capability and capacity gaps, developing a coordinated approach to addressing knowledge gaps.
Common Data Environment
Mandated use of common terms and definitions writing in plain English without the use of confusing abbreviations and acronyms, as well as the use of tools such as locally researched current granular construction task unit price book databases to better communicate and validate cost and scope of work requirements.