
FACILITY PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT
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.
Course Objectives
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
- Explain the foundations of facility management
- Analyze strategic options and make decisions necessary to manage the facility
- Utilize environmental and contractual factors in selecting appropriate facility site
- Identify tools and techniques necessary to develop a facility’s engineering layouts and make decisions about automation and disaster recovery planning
- Discover the importance of proper maintenance management and project management of a facility
- Apply project management techniques to manage large size facility tasks
- Use capital budgeting concepts and techniques to ensure implementing the appropriate decisions regarding facilities
Target Audience
Personnel who are interested in learning facility management and the considerations that affect facility management.
Target Competencies
- Facility planning
- Strategy planning
- Engineering design
- Decision making
- Maintenance management
- Project management
- Capital budgeting
- 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
Capital budgeting evaluations