Module 1: Introduction & Components of Facilities Management
- Major stakeholders
- Introduction to Property, Facilities and Maintenance Management
- Principles of FM
- General
- Strategic
- Leadership
- Characteristics of FM
- FM Policy and strategy
- Objectives of FM
- Project and Configuration management
- Defining Facilities Management (FM)
- Roles and responsibilities of FM
- Functional areas
Module 2: Categorizing Facilities Management Services
- Defining service
- Corporate and cultural service
- Different service delivery approaches
- The service, operational, and process side of facilities management
- FM as a Management Discipline
- Technical and non-technical services
- Hard and soft services
- Strategic and non-strategic services
The Challenges facing the Facilities Manager:
Module 3: Financial and Environmental Management
- General accounting terms and concepts
- Asset and financial management relating to FM
- Budgeting and Managing FM expenditure, operating costs and services
- Property owner / facilities manager relationship
Module 4: Building Maintenance Management
- Principles of maintenance
- Building Management Systems
- Maintenance Management
- Condition assessment
- Execution of maintenance work
- Prioritising maintenance management
- Principles of life cycle costing
- Maintenance contracts / SLAs
Module 5: Accommodation Management
- Space planning, design and planning policy
- Ergonomics and importance of colour
- Facilities and space planning
- Calculating space requirements
- Environmental control of buildings
Module 6: Financial and Environmental Management
- General accounting terms and concepts
- Defining FM Soft Services
- Key Soft Services
- Security
- Catering
- Cleaning
- Client Service and Support
- Security
- Contracts and Service Level Agreements
- Contracts
- Dispute resolution
- Lease agreement
- Leasing of shopping and office space
- Delict and the facilities manager
- SLAs
- Performance measurement
- Benchmarking
- Post occupancy evaluation
- Principles of Quality Management
- Financial implications of and cost-effectiveness in service delivery
Module 7: Consumer & Communication
- Customer behaviour and needs in the FM environment
- Communication and service delivery
- Customer satisfaction in FM environment
- Principles and techniques for effective communication
- Telephone communication skills
- Dealing with dissatisfied customers
- Compiling a FM communication plan
Module 8: Regulatory Framework and Risk Management
- Overview of the OHS Act
- Communicating Health and Safety information to stakeholders
- Health and Safety Quality Management and Policy
- Risk Management