What Does a Maintenance Facilities Manager Do?
Facility Management (FM) is an emerging interdisciplinary subject. According to the definition of the International Facilities Management Association (IFMA) and the Library of Congress, "the purpose is to plan, maintain and manage the effective living environment of human beings with the latest technology for the purpose of maintaining a high-quality business space and improving investment efficiency. work".
Facility management
- Facility management makes comprehensive use of management disciplines, construction sciences, behavioral sciences, and engineering technologies. It combines people, space, and processes to effectively plan and control the working and living environment of humans, and maintain high-quality activity spaces. Improve investment efficiency and meet the requirements of strategic goals and business plans of various enterprises, institutions and government departments.
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- The facility management portal FM GATE is a professional interactive platform that integrates facility management knowledge sharing, academic exchange, case sharing, and information dissemination. The portal is hosted by the Tongji University Facility Management Research Center and should be co-organized with Facility Management Consulting (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
- The Tongji University Facility Management Research Center is affiliated to the Institute of Complex Engineering Management of the School of Economics and Management of Tongji University [2] . It is committed to exploring the "four-round" driving mode of facility management discipline development in teaching, scientific research, external communication and social practice. It is the earliest research in China. One of the professional teams of facility management, has carried out a lot of theoretical research and consulting practice related to facility management. Published the first domestic facility management monograph "Introduction to Facility Management" in 2011, undertook a series of research topics in the field of government and enterprise facility management, and extensively carried out academic exchanges and cooperation with international academic groups, universities and enterprises. Has a wide impact. In 2014, we successfully held the first advanced training course on facility management in China's universities, and formed a strong expert committee composed of first-class domestic experts and professors. [3]
- After long-term accumulation and precipitation, the facility management portal platform brings together Fortune 500 companies from the fields of technology manufacturing, information and communications, semiconductors, and network technology, as well as high-end facility management talents from the world's top professional real estate consulting companies, as well as Tongji University, Shanghai University and other colleges and universities.
The FM GATE portal consists of FM information, FM think tanks, FM services, and FM zones, forming an interactive integration of information and learning.
· FM information: mainly introduces the news, conference activities, sharing of high-end interviews, academic salons and other information in the facility management industry;
· FM think tank: mainly share facility management industry research reports, academic research papers, online schools, update industry standards, etc .;
· FM service: mainly introduces training information, consulting services and solution professional service resource information in the facility management industry;
· FM area: classify and label professional knowledge and data information according to templates such as strategic planning, outsourcing management, environmental health and safety, space management, operation and maintenance, and energy management.
· FM Forum: mainly provides facilities management scientific research and communication and exchange platform for industry individuals. [4]