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An authoritative and comprehensive indicator of relative levels of building costs around the globe, produced by Rider Levett Bucknall.
A guide to help building owners, managers and tenants to operate buildings more sustainably.
Developed as one of the outcomes of the FM Action Agenda, Innovative Procurement Solutions for Service Delivery is the result of extensive survey analysis and research by FM Action Agenda Recognition: Innovation Working Group members Mike O’Shea – Currie & Brown; Emlyn Keane – AMP Capital Investors and Mark Slater – Johnson Controls.
The recent global financial crisis has elevated Contract Management and Procurement to the number one topic of interest for Facility Managers as the industry continues to seek better outcomes from best-practice management of contracts and procurement.
This publication is a must-read for facility managers and property services industry personnel who need to better understand the benefits and pitfalls of the different types of contract delivery models, relationships, pricing structures and contract drivers that make up an effective contract and procurement management system.
Complete with best-practice examples and case studies, Innovative Procurement Solutions for Service Delivery is available to FMA Australia members and Non Members.
Produced by the International Facility Management Association, Strategic Facility Planning: A White Paper outlines the key principles of strategic facility planning and details the key stages of the entire SFP process, which consists of understanding, analysing, planning and acting.
As part of the Facilities Management Action Agenda, in 2004, the Department of Industry, Tourism and Resources commissioned Access Economics to undertake a study of the size and contribution of the FM industry to Australia's economy.
Covering over 5 million square metres and 280,000 FTE's this research, conducted by Rider Hunt Terotech, examines in detail the impact of facility and workspace types on management practices, rates and costs of churn; and establishes measurement methods and benchmarks.
In 1999 FMA Australia commissioned Arthur Andersen to conduct research into the facility management industry. This is the first research study into the facility management industry undertaken in Australia.
Produced in 2002, the Facility Management Contracting Guidelines are designed to enable optimum delivery of facility management services, and significantly improve existing systems and processes.
Based upon the Australian risk management standard AS/NZS 4360, the Facility Management Guidelines to Managing Risk provides risk management concepts, models and processes which can be applied to any organisation regardless of size or sector.
The Glossary of Facility Management Terms (HB 261), published by Standards Australia with major assistance from the Facility Management Association of Australia provides a detailed A to Z guide of commonly used facility management terms for use by Australian Facility Managers.
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