A Blueprint for Success – A Sound Understanding of Facility Management

Today it is essential for a premium-quality construction organization to possess a sound understanding of the inter-related disciplines of real estate, building, program, project and construction management – collectively labeled as facility management or FM. This premise is especially true as more and more organizations lack an experienced, internal, FM presence and are forced to rely on external sources for skills and knowledge.

FM+C has a history of involvement and success to many organizations the result of this understanding in FM often contributing life-cycle costing analysis, benefits of green building practices as well as designing for operations and maintenance – providing valuable strategic insights that make sense in program and project management associated with construction.

A Blueprint for Success – A Two-Tiered Approach to Service

FMC places a great deal of emphasis on service as well as the experience and competency of its core group – differing greatly from many construction and service organizations.

Maintenance -- Rarely noteworthy except when reactive and certainly not prestigious,repair and renewal activities remain essential to building function – maintenance, repair and renewal are the “nuts and bolts” of building ownership as on-going necessities. Understanding this significant component of facility management, FM+C delivers high quality, professional maintenance services providing attention to detail and prompt service performed in a personalized, well-schooled and well-supervised manner. FM+C self-perform virtually all manner of building repair and renewal.

Maintenance activities represent the first tier of FM+C services and sustain the secondary core of the organization – the broad-skilled carpenters and finish personnel. This model allows for these skilled professionals to remain at service to perform and/or supervise projects of more significant scope. It also permits FM+C to solidly self-perform the cornerstone activities required of niche construction. This practice of self-forming a significant portion of work, especially critical, commencement and finishing stages ensures prompt performance and high quality. It also ensures a direct line of communication from owner's representative to contractor on an ongoing basis.

Construction -- Maintenance activities provide an extremely sound footing for the second tier of services provided by FM+C – construction. From an FM perspective retaining a construction organization that, knows a facility; client, the regimen of performance; and, maintains a satisfactory relationship – all of which gleaned during the successful execution of the typical and day-to-day maintenance and repairs – affords the FM professional a high degree of confidence as a contractor makes the logical transition to projects of more significant scope. 

Similarly, participation in such “grass-roots” activities as renewal and repair as well as observation of facility maintenance practices afford FM+C the ability to make legitimate contribution that will likely go unaccounted by those unfamiliar with the facility – designing for operations and efficient maintenance is a typical contribution.

This two-tiered approach to service makes for a highly responsive and flexible construction organization. It is the ideal platform from which to create a fully operational office or treatment room, over the course of weekend, or highly technical voice/data center over the course of three months – both examples of successful projects completed by FM+C.