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Course Description
Sustainability has become a defining factor in facility performance, influencing energy use, cost efficiency, environmental responsibility, and workplace wellbeing. Integrating sustainability into FM requires structured planning, data-driven decision-making, and organization-wide engagement. The question is: Are your sustainability strategies comprehensive enough to drive measurable impact across facility operations?
The Sustainable Facility Management (SFM) program provides the knowledge and practical methods needed to embed sustainability within facilities. Over five days, participants explore sustainable strategy development, communication frameworks, energy and water management, waste reduction, financial tools, workplace strategies and performance evaluation.
The program equips professionals to lead sustainable initiatives with clarity, competence, and organizational alignment.
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Training Objective
By attending this Sustainable Facility Management training course, you will be able to:
- Determine the importance of sustainability in facility management. and review key sustainability regulations impacting facility operations
- Plan for sustainable facilities programmes in your organisation, and create sustainable strategies and policies for effective implementation
- Integrate sustainability into energy, water, and waste management, and apply sustainable practices in your facility for efficiency
- Develop workplace management solutions to improve the efficiency and enjoyment of your facility
- Plan to improve the quality of facility services through organisational commitment and implementing effective strategies
- Understand and apply change management strategies to mitigate change resistance and create plans for communicating sustainability strategies
- Evaluate the performance and effectiveness of sustainability initiatives, and report findings as per regulations
Target Audience
- Facility managers, assistant facility managers and FM coordinators
- Maintenance, reliability, asset-management and building-services professionals
- Energy, utilities, environmental and sustainability practitioners
- Property-management, workplace, corporate-services and operations professionals
- HSE and compliance professionals involved in facility operations
- Engineers and consultants supporting sustainability initiatives
- Professionals who want to connect sustainability with business value, reporting and operational performance
Training Methods
Daily Agenda
Day 1: Introduction to Sustainable Facility Management Strategy
- Definition of sustainability and its importance in facility management (FM)
- Describing the main elements of the triple bottom line (TBL):
- Plant (Environmental)
- Profit (Economic)
- People (Social)
- Definition of sustainability strategy and sustainability impacts on the strategic planning model
- Exploring sustainability goals, principles, and initiatives in FM
- Techniques for aligning the FM strategy with the overall organisation’s strategy
- Exploring the four main phases of developing an enterprise-wide sustainability plan
Day 2: Communicating and Reporting on Sustainability
- Exploring the key elements of comprehensive communication strategies
- Strategies and principles for communicating sustainability strategies
- Understanding quality reporting principles and regulations
- Defining change management and its key strategies
- Exploring leadership skills and techniques required for leading and managing change
- Tools and techniques for monitoring and evaluating change
Day 3: Managing Sustainable Facilities
- Guidelines for developing FM sustainability plans and policies
- Techniques and key considerations for applying sustainability to FM plans
- Discussing sustainability programme development and implementation practices
- Defining the Time Value of Money (TVM) and its role in strategy planning
- Exploring financial tools commonly used for decision-making
- Definition and key differences between purchasing and procurement
Day 4: Energy, Water, and Waste Management
- Explaining the main goals of sustainable energy, water, and waste management
- Understanding the calculations of greenhouse gas emissions
- Exploring distributed generation using renewable energy sources:
- Combined heat and power systems
- On-site energy systems
- Strategies for improving the facility’s sustainable use of water resources
- Defining different types of waste and the process of waste management
- Explaining the levels in the waste hierarchy:
- Prevention
- Reduction
- Re-Use
- Recycle
- Responsible Disposal
Day 5: Workplace Management and Quality of Services
- Explaining the role and importance of workplace management in FM
- Exploring metrics used to measure facility effectiveness in workplace management
- Understanding sustainability considerations for materials and consumables management
- Discussing the impact of organizational commitment to sustainability on facility services
- Strategies for improving the quality of services and indoor environmental quality
- Course evaluation and key takeaways
Accreditation
BTS attendance certificate will be issued to all attendees completing minimum of 80% of the total course duration.
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