FACILITY PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT

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Why Attend

The overall aim of this course is to provide participants with the knowledge, skills, and 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.

Event Date: 29/07/2022 – 30/07/2022

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Overview
Course Outline

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
Real estate planning and considerations
- Site criteria considerations
- Space calculations
- Environmental issues
- Lease agreements
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
- Facility Management Information System (FMIS)
Maintenance and operations management
- Emergency maintenance
- Corrective maintenance
- Preventive maintenance
- Predictive maintenance
- Facility security
Managing large facility jobs
- Defining large facility jobs
- Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
- Developing a schedule
- Gantt chart
- Resource planning
Facility Financial Management
- Evaluating alternative plans
- Ranking the alternatives
- Weighted factor comparison
- Facility budgeting
- Common ratios and trend analyses