Facilities Management
Lifting the exhibitor experience through smart technology
Total Facilities offers a platform for leading companies to showcase emerging technology to their customers directly, as Peter Darley explains, National Sales Manager – Service and Repair, at Schindler Lifts Australia Pty Ltd.
Three top product picks providing today’s best FM solutions
Improvement and innovation are key to helping provide solutions to the daily challenges facing today’s facilities managers. Product-focused professionals have identified three of the next big solutions in the market which will also be showcased at Total Facilities 2018, Australia’s single most important facilities management event and marketplace for FM buyers and suppliers.
Debunking 3 top myths in facilities management
Gone are the days of facility management practitioners flying under the radar, unseen and unsociable compared to other roles within the sector. Today, the perception versus reality presents a very different picture, and practitioners are taking up diverse roles all the way to the C-suites.
Facility Managers on the front line of business productivity
Industry trends, mega trends, innovative disruptors, six sigma strategies to improve efficiencies. These are just some of the buzz words bandied around in C-Suite boardrooms. But day-to-day innovation and business improvement lies with the industry front liners – the facility managers (FMs) themselves.
FM efficiencies directly impacting C-Suite agendas
C-Suite executives need to better understand the key business indicators that promote value in an organisation and how Facility Managers can help improve performance. That’s the view of Martin Leitch, consultant to Total Facilities, Australia’s single most important facilities management (FM) event.
Three game-changing trends in facilities management
Sustainability, procurement and thermal comfort are three of the major trends changing the shape of the facilities management industry, according to Martin A Leitch, principal consultant at FM Scope, who has been involved in shaping this year’s Total Facilities.
Video: How ICC Sydney is creating world-class FM
What does FM of the future look like? How has ICC Sydney raised the bar for this future? Watch the video to find out more, an exciting production between Total Facilities and ICC Sydney. With 72 spaces and 52,000 people catered for at any one time, watch this video to see how ICC Sydney, Asia […]
Putting an end to the boys’ club: Women in FM
Women in Facility Management (WiFM) is a not-for-profit organisation that works to build a community for women in the industry because similar to many industries including utilities, construction and mining, facility management is a male-dominated industry. In fact, WiFM estimates that women only make up around 20 to 30 percent of the facility management field and whilst the […]
Facilities Manager Game Changer
Martin Leitch explores how buildings and the people who run them are being transformed by the digital revolution. In the late ’80s and early ’90s, who would have thought that the humble telephone would become central to many aspects of our everyday lives – from taking photos to playing games with opponents around the world […]
Upskill for a secure FM future
By Martin Leitch After many years of attempting to define facilities management (FM) competencies it seems that there is now a real opportunity for a general consensus on what is required to be a competent facilities manager. This opportunity is mainly being driven by the recently announced collaboration between the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors […]
