Goals and Tools of Facilities Managemen

Goals and Tools of Facilities Management

Management of facilities goals cannot be convincing because what they majorly aimed at is to exploit the potentials benefit of the adoption of facilities management to the greatest extent which alternately may probably not been previously unexploited for the potential benefits of the business organization.

According to Hamer (1988) state in is understanding that gaining a complete control over the current condition or present situation of an organization is the primary need for facilities management. But to have such control, it greatly involves having a full understanding of what is already in an existence; who is using it presently; the purpose it serves and the cost of it.

The estate management strategic, which accords with the suggestion of Adewunmi & Ogunba (2006) that the core competencies of facilities management, property management, and construction management is the best area of contribution of the surveyor in the professional of facilities management. According to review from Meyer (2003) he states that competencies of facilities management have a lot of role to play in churn management and workspace.
Ascertaining that every bit of space in an organization is appropriately used and accounted for is another goal of facilities management with the interest of ensuring that the organization meets the trinity of investment objectives.

Facilities Management Functions

 According to Sekula (2003) emphasis is laid on the facilities manager were he says that success is not only anchored to how well or perfect a facilities manager does his job but how well a facilities manager can fits in. Therefore, comprehending the organization and its culture is very important. To start with, the need to initiate whether long-range strategic planning is in place and whether the plan is still valid is of essential. Issues that impact the safety and security of any organization and its employees are mission-critical issues. Operations and maintenance, technology infrastructure, workspace, and departmental organization are the class of operational challenges to b dealt with. The study did not only expatiate on the services being carried out with regards to facilities management business but also detail or expression about personal characteristics to be possessed by facilities managers’ effectiveness. The connection of the study to this research work is to study the establishment of human characters to the accomplishment of facilities management operations. More so, the commitment of facilities management is basically to present the workspace management of an organisation.

Owen (1995) gives the twelve break-down of facilities managements business area, this twelve business areas are further broken-down with the aim of giving the detail components. The major headings include law, human resources, information technology, building and real estate, marketing, support services, building maintenance services, business management, operations, building capital works, finance and churn management