The Complete Course on Facilities Management

The British Standards Institution defines facilities management as: “The integration of processes within an organization to maintain and develop the agreed services that support and enhance the effectiveness of its core activities.”

Facilities managers are responsible for providing, maintaining, and developing a variety of services, including property strategy, space management, communications infrastructure, building maintenance, administration, and contract management. Facilities management encompasses space, infrastructure, people, and organizational needs.

This Complete Course on Facilities Management will focus on how to establish, implement, manage, and continuously improve your facility department to optimize the use of facilities while staying within the constraints of costs, performance, and other key factors throughout their entire lifecycle.

The training course is designed to enhance participants' skills in managing facility staff and corporate assets, while minimizing workplace risks. As the field of Facilities Management (FM) evolves, this training offers up-to-date insights into the profession, balancing asset performance (functionality, availability, reliability, and safety), and addressing specific challenges faced on the ground, with real-world solutions and best practices.

This Anderson training course will feature:

• Proper knowledge of the basic principles of facilities management
• How to apply best practices according to several norms
• Understanding how to operate and maintain facilities as a “business within a business”
• Sharing of facilities management experience
• Insights regarding current state of facilities management processes and possibilities to improve them

By the end of this Anderson training course, participants will be able to:

• Understand the basics of facilities management
• Understand how to draw up a preventive maintenance concept, based on risk
• Develop strategies to decide when and what to outsource
• Understand the different types of contracts
• Identify and monitor the facilities management-processes performance

This training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:

• Professionals who are responsible for the management, operation and maintenance of facilities (buildings, production facilities, utilities, power and water distributions networks landscaping, etc.)
• Professionals aiming to update themselves on the basic elements, best practices and implementation aspects of facilities management