facilities management is a traditional direction and well-recognized in the field of operations management

In what ways?

Hi, please find some of the articles on the integration of facility management into the process of construction, particularly during the design stage.

Facilities management --FM- -is vital to ensure the building has a high lifetime performance. This field is advancing as more measurement techniques become available like wearables for example. The post occupancy evaluation is becoming a part of FM.

The universal free management systems standard MSS 1000 integrates facilities management into overall management. Seventeen principles underpin MSS 1000 and includes life-cycle management. http://cqiimsig.wixsite.com/imsig/mss-1000

I thinks this is relevant

The business case for high performance green buildings: Sustainability and its financial impact.

P Von Paumgartten - Journal of Facilities Management, 2003

Paul von Paumgartten (Director, Energy and Environmental Affairs, Johnson Controls, Inc., 507 East Michigan Street, PO Box 423, Milwaukee, WI 53201‐0423, USA; Tel: +1 414 524 4546; Fax: +1 414 524 4013; E‐mail: [email protected])

This paper endeavours to present building owners, managers, architects and design/builders with a compelling business case for considering a green building for their new construction projects. A green building, for the purposes of this paper, refers to any building that meets the high standards set forth in the US Green Building Council’s (USGBC) Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System™, the pre‐eminent metric system by which new buildings are judged to be environmentally conscious. The financial benefits of green buildings are many. They include reduced energy consumption and their associated costs, increased occupant productivity and worker retention, increased market values, and reduced health liability risks due to better indoor air quality. Individual building measures are presented through a tertiary examination of two LEED Certified buildings. These individual benefits are examined further as an integrated building whole, indicating that buildings constructed to LEED standards can save more than 250 per cent of its up‐front costs over the course of its 40‐year useable life cycle.

http://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/abs/10.1108/14725960410808096

Service operations management as a conceptual framework for facility management

Peter McLennan, (2004) "Service operations management as a conceptual framework for facility management", Facilities, Vol. 22 Issue: 13/14, pp.344-348, https://doi.org/10.1108/02632770410563040

This paper focuses on providing a conceptual model for facility management, which has seen sustained economic growth and market development in the past ten years and that it has been one of the more robust service sector employers. It notes that facility management needs to be more closely aligned to a management discipline to enable it to differentiate itself as it develops within the service sector. There are a number of market segments which are brought together by facility management operations: property, built environment, catering, cleaning, security and engineering services are but a few. In order to provide more coherence to the facility management sector, these activities would benefit from being placed within the context of a mainstream management discipline. This paper states that the lack of conceptual or theoretical management framework is perhaps in part the reason why facility management remains misunderstood in the general business sector.

Buildings with lower energy and CO2 emissions tend to also be ones that are healthier. See latest work of MacNaughton at Harvard. It is vital that facilities managers play a role in monitoring human conditions as well as the environment via POE protocols so they understand what works well or does not for building users.

hello I am in need of clarification on the difference between facilities management and property management.