1st Edition

Facilities Management and Corporate Real Estate Management as Value Drivers How to Manage and Measure Adding Value

Edited By Per Anker Jensen, Theo van der Voordt Copyright 2017
380 Pages
by Routledge

380 Pages
by Routledge

380 Pages
by Routledge

Facilities Management (FM) and Corporate Real Estate Management (CREM) are two closely related and relatively new management disciplines with developing international professions and increasing academic attention. Both disciplines have from the outset a strong focus on controlling and reducing cost for real estate, facilities and related services. In recent years there has been a change towards... Read more

Preface



Forewords



Part I: Introductory Chapters



1. Introduction and Overall Framework



2. FM and CREM Interventions



3. Value Adding Management



4. Value Parameters



Part II: Value Parameters



5. Satisfaction



Interview 1



6. Image



Interview 2



7. Culture



Interview 3



8. Health and Safety



Interview 4



9. Productivity



Interview 5



10. Adaptability



Interview 6



11. Innovation



Interview 7



12. Risk



Interview 8



13. Cost



Interview 9



14. Value of Assets



Interview 10



15. Sustainability



Interview 11



16. Corporate Social Responsibility



Interview 12



Part III: Epilogue



17. Tools to Measure and Manage Adding Value by FM and CREM



18. Reflections, Conclusions and Recommendations

Biography

Per Anker Jensen is Professor in Facilities Management and head of the externally funded Centre for Facilities Management – Realdania Research, Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Denmark. He holds the degrees of MSc in Civil Engineering, PhD and MBA. Besides research and teaching he has twenty years of experience in practice as a consultant, a project manager and a facilities manager. He was a member of the board of EuroFM and chairman of EuroFM’s Research Network Group in 2007 and 2008. He is currently project manager of the joint EuroFM research project on the Added Value of FM, which started in January 2009.



Theo van der Voordt is Associate Professor in Corporate and Public Real Estate Management at the Faculty of Architecture at the Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. His current research focuses on workplace performance, experience and the use of new work environments, the design and management of health care real estate, and value adding management of FM and CREM. His research aims to develop and test workplace strategies, conceptual models and practical tools to support data collection and decision making processes. This work is conducted in close cooperation with the Centre for People and Buildings (CfPB) in Delft, a knowledge centre that specialises in the relationship between people, working processes and the working environment.