COURSE OVERVIEW

 This practical and highly-interactive course includes various practical sessions and exercises. where participants will be engaged in a series of interactive small groups and class workshops. 

 

Companies are under unprecedented pressure from rising energy costs as well as legislation and climate change. Key performance indicators (KPI’s) shall be developed to keep overhead costs under control and improve reliability, predictability and profitability. 

 

Facilities Management represents a continuous process of service provisions to support a company’s core business. Developing strategies to reduce operating costs, while at the same time optimizing the performance of assets, will be critical to ensuring business continuity. 

 

This course is designed to provide participants with a detailed and up-to-date overview of facility management. It covers the fundamentals of facilities management (FM); the importance of guaranteed utilities being supplied to the site and the contingency plans in the event of failure on any of the critical site utilities; the strategies and planning including approaches to FM and proper implementation; and the health, safety and environment factors including general policies, legislation, best practices, risk assessment, fire safety certification and EPA legislation. 

 

During this interactive course, participants will learn the energy management (EM) and efficiency; the EM plan such as energy management contracts, vendor management, recommended vendor instrumentation and evaluation; the project management in FM using key elements and tools, initiation, planning, development, quality, execution and monitoring; the contract management and procurement including terms and conditions, financial elements, performance monitoring and contract administration; and the importance of knowing site systems and interaction, proper troubleshooting, fault finding techniques and change control procedure.