Facilities Management Services

"Facilities management" is a term for a type of business service, the meaning of which often escapes people unfamiliar with it. The term itself makes no reference as to what the facilities in question might be, or in what manner they are being manages, or even why this service is important enough to warrant specialized facilities management consultant companies. "Facilities management" can refer to a range of different, but related services. The facilities in question are buildings - usually those used for commercial purposes, like office buildings and warehouses - and "management" refers to the day-to-day operation, administration and repair of the various systems in the building, including the air conditioning, elevators or power systems. The owner of this commercial building would hire a facilities management consultancy in order to administrate any or all of the building's systems for them.

There are a few possible reasons why a company would rather outsource its building matters in this fashion rather than conducting it themselves. They may not have the in-house resources needed to properly manage their facilities, or hiring a specialized FM service may be a good method to save themselves time and money, and may also be able to reduce the company's impact on the environment through energy consumption.

A dedicated FM consultancy will obviously accumulate a lot more experience in the field of facilities management than other companies, and as a result of this they can generally run a building's facilities much more efficiently and at much lower cost than an unspecialised company. This, therefore, saves the company that owns the building money, as the cost of hiring the facilities management consultants is less than the cost of operating their building's facilities and systems themselves.

In one way that an independent consultancy can manage a building's facilities more efficiently is by reducing the building's energy consumption. This reduces the costs to the company that's paying the electricity bill, but it also helps to prevent damage to the natural environment. Thirty to forty percent of an average country's carbon emissions come about as a direct result of energy consumption by buildings, so reducing buildings' energy consumption in this way can prevent a large amount of damage to the environment.