What changed in Facility Management?
For a long time Facility management was only associated with janitorial and security services but that has changed in a major way since the 20th century. Current Facility manager is asked to minimise costs while maximizing efficiency.
Facilities have also gotten bigger and more complex which means they often have to rely on new digital technologies that require expertise to operate.
Increased number of government regulations in the 21st century caused many more obstacles which need to be dealt with. When this proffesion first emerged in the 1970s individuals used to manage one or few buildings while today’s facility manager often manages big portfolio of buildings.
Future of Facility Services
The future is in ‘WE’. Many companies are currently creating teams and shared workspace for their employees to increase their performance. This requires bigger spaces for each team than when they were working individually. If this trend continues as predicted, facility managers will gradualy become even more cruical and influential part of each company, since they are the ones responsible for the shared workspace.
Over the next couple of years,new technologies and managamente techniques will have a huge impact on facility managamente industry. Many companies are aware of the problem that global warming presents, therefore we can expect that facility managers will be asked to lower the energy consumption and carbon footprint.
Data driven decision making helps managers measure performances based on real time data and drive improvements for example in energy usage.
FM systems are also becoming more intuative and personalised based on customers needs. Customers can be selective with the data they choose to use.
Lot of people predict the significance of AI in FM. It can be applied to variaty of uses, such as energy monitoring, space planning or equipment predictive analysis, which consists of analysing streams of data looking for trends. This analysis may indicate high probability of failures in the near term.
Companies are increasingly outsourcing FM
Because of the complexity of the job, number of large companies choose to outsource facility management to specialized companies. This enables them to focus on other goals such as services they provide or their production.
By the year 2025 global outsourced market in FM will be worth 1 trillion dollars. It is one of the fastest growing markets with projected increase of 11% a year.
Another reason why firms choose this solution is the fact that specialists are often able to cut the costs of facility maintnance. These specialized companies can bring a know-how to a company that would otherwise take years to obtain.
Enectiva
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