Facility Management is of interest to many companies. After the employees, the company assets are the most important assets for many companies. The management of facilities is not only important from the point of view of cost control; they also largely determine the image of the company. The facilities are the first barges that a customer is confronted with, and they thus determine the perception that customers have of a company. In recent years, a number of new working methods and forms of facility management can be seen, such as Contract Management and Design, Construct & Maintain contracts. The contract party that realizes or maintains a facility becomes an involved partner in Facility Management.
Early involvement
In the design phase of a facility, most of the costs that will occur during the life cycle and the operation are recorded. It is therefore crucial that requirements from Facility Management such as maintenance, reliability and availability of used components and materials are taken into account at an early stage. During the design and realization process, guidelines on how to deal with the structuring of data, the training of personnel and the transfer of data are also required. For this insight is still in the entire process from idea to asset. Early involvement can avoid unnecessary costs and improve the Return of Investment of facilities.
Informatie systems
Information forms the core of many Facility Management processes. Information about the location, lay-out and details of assets are required for, for example, planning maintenance work and determining (rental) costs. Because information is often stored in multiple systems, the relationship between these systems and the data as well as the overview of all assets is important. Viewers and search functions can support this need. Recent developments in the field of information systems for Facility Management are Building Information Models, BIM, and Geographic Information Systems, GIS.
Services in the area of Facility Management
HQ-consult offers a wide range of services in the field of Facility Management based on its experience and expertise:
- Process Management
- Analysis of design and realization processes and data flows
- Development of functional requirements for maintainability and availability
- Development of guidelines for the transfer and commissioning of assets
- Information Management
- Definition of business requirements for ICT systems
- Evaluation, benchmarking and selection of ICT solutions
- Project Management for system implementation
- System integration, interfacing and access to data
- Development of guidelines for information transfer
See also our projects in the area of Organizational development, Information systems and Data Management.