6 Emerging Topics Shaping FM
The International Facility Management Association has published findings from its latest working group, revealing six key topics shaping the FM industry. The Emerging...
Read Full ArticleIFMA's FM Research and Benchmarking Institute (RBI) has published what it is describing as definitive benchmarks for facility management professionals covering janitorial, maintenance, utility costs and sustainable practices.
The IFMA’s 2017 O&M Benchmarking Report, released in collaboration with the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), draws data from 2,000 survey respondents throughout the United States and Canada and includes analysis of 98,000 buildings.
New subjects in this year’s edition include security operations costs and staffing, organisational characteristics, FM supervisory trends and FM department placement within the organisational structure.
Industry benchmarks, such as the ones provided in this report, provide invaluable data that FM professionals - and anyone working with the built environment - can use to anticipate project outcomes and then compare the actual results with similar projects. As the world’s largest professional association for FM, IFMA is well positioned to offer insightful benchmarks across a variety of markets and regions.
The RBI benchmarking process is methodically driven based on the key performance indicators identified in answering the proposed research questions. This process joins IFMA subject matter experts, contractors, collaborators and RBI staff in the task of developing the best, most useful products in the FM industry.
The RBI process is grounded in traditional benchmarking techniques for identifying the best possible key performance indicators.
The 2017 O&M Benchmarking Report includes data subsets for 33 broad industry categories (including services, manufacturing and institutional) and 29 facility use categories (including office, industrial, assembly, retail and government types). The data points were drawn from a variety of building portfolio types (such as space within a building, single building and multiple buildings) cross referenced by region, climate and building age, type of ownership and more.
Article written by Cathryn Ellis | Published 06 October 2017
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