Re-Thinking Facilities Management
Objectives
The British Institute of Facilities Management has just launched its Vision for FM to celebrate its tenth anniversary.
The Institute came into being in 1993 to promote the development of FM as a professional discipline. BIFM now has 8300 individual members and over 250 corporate members. The Institute has introduced a degree standard qualification and set up BIFM Training to provide short courses.
FM remains poorly understood, especially by client organisations and government. Too often FM is seen as an activity to be cut, to save money, rather than a high value added service.
BIFM is keen to raise the profile of FM as a strategic business discipline that contributes to the core business objectives.
Description
Rethinking Construction has shown the way in evabling government, industry and clients to focus on better ways of working to deliver better results.
BIFM believes that FM needs to learn from the achievements of Rethinking Construction and Accelerating Change.
However, FM is a new service sector rather than an old industry in need of modernisation. FM needs to develop an international framework for standards, qualifications, skills development and access to knowledge.
BIFM is promoting collaboration with Be and a number of other bodies – here and abroad – to develop FM Excellence.
Initiatives include:
- A. BSI/CEN have set up two working groups to produce standards for a) strategic FM and b) tactical/operational FM.
- B. EuroFM has set up a working group to prepare a European Qualifications Framework for FMs (Equal) – to create a qualification passport.
- C. PSNTO, Housing Potential and CINTO are preparing proposals for a Sector Skills Council for Property, Housing and Facilities Management.
- D. DTI has given second stage PII approval to a Rethinking FM research project. 500 FMs and 500 employers will assess FM’s contribution to the core business now (perception) and in five years time (target). A self-assessment model and improvement plan will be developed.
Participating members
Partners
Timetable
Outputs
Resources
Contact
To obtain a copy of Vision for FM please contact: re-thinkingfm@bifm.org.uk
Documents
Value through integration: FM's big Opportunity - [112kb] (members only)
2003 FM Integration FeedbackFeedforward - [120kb]
FM Article January 2005 - [96kb]
Jan 05 Be CFM Article - [97kb]