While your FM professionals are experts in keeping your facilities operating, they may not have access to ongoing training to keep pace with new technologies and approaches that could help improve facilities performance, reduce cost and risk, and benefit patients. In addition, learning and career development opportunities can make a difference in FM talent retention and recruitment.

Upskilling is especially important when it comes to preventative maintenance strategies. Preventative, or reliability-focused, maintenance can reduce unplanned equipment failures by 17%, in turn reducing energy and maintenance costs by as much as 30%. Unlike calendar-based maintenance, preventative maintenance involves using sophisticated technologies to monitor refrigerators, imaging machines and other equipment so the FM team can prevent costly emergency repairs and replacements.

In highly decentralized FM operations, a training program can help instill system-wide standards for operations, service delivery and facility quality to provide a consistent brand experience for patients.

Investing in FM technologies and training staff to embrace them will enable you to leverage your facilities data to improve building operations and optimize the ROI of your FM technology.

Typically, about one-third of the energy used by buildings is wasted through inefficient or malfunctioning equipment. Wasted energy can be significant in healthcare facilities that house energy-intensive diagnostic and treatment equipment.

Leading practice is to apply next-generation preventative maintenance techniques with sophisticated monitoring tools to keep equipment operating efficiently and to prevent failures. These measures not only extend equipment life and help ensure that the patient is always safe and comfortable, but also significantly reduce energy costs.

With the growing sophistication of smart building technologies, FMs can take energy efficiency and sustainability to new levels. By automatically capturing data related to energy and water usage, as well as waste management, an FM team can create benchmarks for tracking sustainability goals over time.