The Facilities Management profession has come of age. Its practitioners require skill and knowledge. The sector definition continues to expand to include the management of an increasingly broad range of tangible assets, support services and people skills.

Facilities Management is a vital strategic discipline because it ‘translates’ the high-level, strategic change required by senior decision makers into day-to-day reality for people in their work or living space.

Excellent Facilities Management can, amongst other things:

• Deliver effective management of an organisation’s assets
• Enhance the skills of people within the FM sector and provide identifiable and meaningful career options
• Enable new working styles and processes – vital in this technology-driven age
• Enhance an organisation’s identity and image
• Help the integration processes associated with change, post-merger or acquisition
• Deliver business continuity and workforce protection in an era of heightened security threats

Successful organisations in future will approach FM as an integral part of their strategic plan. Those organisations that treat FM as a ‘commodity overhead’ will be at a significant strategic disadvantage.

Green Growth provides professional Project Management services to a number of high profile Client’s for projects large and small.

By expert application of knowledge, skills and techniques projects are executed effectively and efficiently.

Green Growth’s Facilities Management approach follows standards set by the British Institute of Facilities Management (BIFM)

The scope of services Green Growth offers matches the definition of FM provided by CEN the European Committee for Standardisation and ratified by BSI British Standards as follows:

“Facilities Management is the integration of processes within an organisation to maintain and develop the agreed services which support and improve the effectiveness of its primary activities”.

Facilities Management encompasses multi-disciplinary activities within the built environment and the management of their impact upon people and the workplace.

Effective Facilities Management, combining resources and activities, is vital to the success of any organisation. At a corporate level, it contributes to the delivery of strategic and operational objectives. On a day-to day level, effective Facilities Management provides a safe and efficient working environment, which is essential to the performance of any business – whatever its size and scope.

The range of services include property strategy, space management and communications infrastructure to building maintenance, administration and contract management.

Historically, taking the UK as an example, some key points in the development of Facilities Management include:

• Cost-cutting initiatives of the 1970s and 1980s under which organisations began to outsource ‘non-core’ services
• Integration of the planning and management of a wide range of services both ‘hard’ (e.g. building fabric) and ‘soft’ (e.g. catering, cleaning, security, mailroom, and health & safety) to achieve better quality and economies of scale
• Formation of the BIFM in 1993, followed by the development of specialised training and a qualification
• Step-change with the Private Finance Initiative (now Public Private Partnerships), becoming an integral part of large-scale projects to manage, replace, and upgrade the country’s infrastructure and public service facilities. This new approach was swiftly followed in the private sector and abroad.