MAINTENANCE AND FACILITIES MANAGEMENT

Maintenance and Facilities Management





Introduction

Facilities management is the area of multi disciplinary dedicated primarily for the care and maintenance of commercial or institutional buildings, such as hotels, resorts, schools, office complexes, sports arenas or convention centres. And may include duties care air conditioning, electric power, plumbing systems, lighting; cleaning; decoration; care floors and security can be of some or all of these duties to be aided computer software. It can be considered as these duties are essential or support services, because they are not Preliminary work (in the broad sense of the word) of the Organization of the owner. (Barrett 2000, 3-40)

This is the functional role played by facilities management (whether a separate department or a small team) to coordinate and oversee the operations of environmentally sound and safe and preserve these assets in an effective and inexpensive aims to achieve long-term conservation of the value of assets. In those cases involved the operation of the facilities directly to the occupants and / or agents of the Organization ruling, the delivery of patients to facilities-related services for these people is very important, therefore, uses the term "satisfaction of the end user," often as a target and a measure of performance.

Similar to the term facilities management with property management, but they are not identical. Since both of them will manage the daily operations of the facility, the property manager for an expanded role includes the leasing and marketing activities, while the role of facilities manager focuses on current tenants who are normally resident. There is an important feature of facilities management is that they take into account the humanitarian needs of the use of buildings and facilities constructed. And complement the soft factors of these factors most associated with hardness maintenance and care for engineering services installations. (Alexander 2003, 269-274)

There is an important concept in the field of facilities management is outsourcing, where the owner with external organizations in order to provide a service or more, rather than its presence is provided through internal arrangements. It can be different reasons for this procedure, from a lack of internal resources, the lack of experience and pressure to cut costs. Unfortunately, the dispersion can be due to the existence of a close link between facilities management and outsourcing. (Cotts 1998, 3-22)

Facilities are managed through the operational phase of the life cycle of the building, which usually extends for many decades. As such, they represent an ongoing process to provide services to support the core business of the owner, where improvements are needed constantly It is essential that the process of decision-making in the design and construction phases of the former, to fit the operational requirements if the facility to provide optimal support to the owner. (Jordan 1999, 196-215)

In this regard, it can be seen to facilities management as an integral part of the design, engineering, construction and operation performed the coordination and control. When is provided established on the basis of turnkey, for example, design, construction, finance and operation ...