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16 Jan 2012 Top ten tips on benchmarking your facilities
Over recent years, facilities managers increasingly are interested in benchmarking their facilities. Here are some top tips to ensure that benchmarking will be successful.
14 Dec 2011 Interested in benchmarking? Access 10 whitepapers and improve your knowledge
A number of whitepapers are available to help you learn more about benchmarking, on topics including 'Reducing Costs by Benchmarking' and 'Benchmarking Your Sustainability'.
31 Oct 2011 Learn more about benchmarking with BIFM
The new FM BENCHMARKING service from BIFM allows you to compare the performance of your buildings against similar one, analyse the differences, and improve the performance over time. There are three short videos available explaining the solution.
17 Aug 2011 New benchmarking service for members
Do you ever think "How can I make my facilities operate even more efficiently and cost-effectively than they already do?", or "Where can I get information that can help me decide what improvements will provide the greatest cost and energy returns?"
28 Jul 2008 R&D in FM: still some way to go protected
Research and development is at the heart of the profession but there is some way to go before it is used fully to good effect in FM organisations. That was the message from the first Knowledge Exchange Breakfast Club organised by the BIFM Scottish region.

Articles

18 Sep 2007 Feel the quality
The first article in this series set out the fundamental principles of facilities benchmarking, concentrating primarily on cost.

Events

23 Feb 2012 Financial Management 2 - Getting Results (Code 1202FIN2)
22 Mar 2012 Understanding & Developing Service Level Agreements (Code 1203SLA)
17 Apr 2012 Introduction to Catering Contracts (Code 1204INTC)
18 - 19 Apr 2012 Making Catering Contracts Work (Code 1204FCAT)
15 May 2012 The Tender Process (Code 1205CSP)

Documents

  Type   Date Title
pdf icon Presentations and Papers
Apr-11
HUB 2 Day 2 The Post Recessional Workplace
Tim will look at the central role that workplace can play in business strategy and economic re-growth and consider how Facility Management professionals can deliver quantifiable business productivity improvements to their organisation's bottom line. protected
ppt icon Presentations and Papers
May-08
Benchmarking Presentation
Jo Harris and Bernard Williams gave a presentation at the April BIFM Home Counties event hosted by Logica in Bracknell protected
doc icon Presentations and Papers
Apr-08
Strategic Performance measurement presentation
Presentation from Managing Suppliers event, 22 April 08 protected
doc icon Reports
Aug-06
Making It Happen – Creating value through FM in the built environment
Report written by the BIFM Sustainability Special Interest Group on sustainability in facilities management.

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