A dynamic approach to facilities management
These challenges can be addressed through a digital transformation journey to integrate building systems, digitize assets and documentation, automate processes, aggregate data, improve data quality and analytics, and continually inform and optimize strategies. With this digital framework in place, organizations can leverage innovative technology and advanced data sets to train data models, deriving the required insights to intelligently manage their facilities.
Organizations have a lot to balance—they’re managing a hybrid work style, tracking return-to-office efforts, accounting for changing regulations, driving progress toward decarbonization goals, facing extreme weather events, and managing costs, all while providing a safe, comfortable, and healthy environment to attract, retain, and maximize the productivity of their employees. They’re looking for a way to manage their workspaces that adapts to the needs of their workforce and aligns to the success, goals, and objectives of their company.
Our dynamic approach provides a responsive and proactive way to manage facilities and their assets by supplementing traditional data sets with real-time data to monitor, optimize, and action operations and continually inform strategy throughout the commercial real estate lifecycle.
Benefits and impacts
Organizations can realize the impact of this approach through task efficiency and cost savings and avoidance, without sacrificing safety, compliance, reliability, and comfort:
Task efficiency is realized by reducing the time it takes to complete tasks through automated workflows and integrated technology and systems. What used to take 15 minutes, may only take 10-12 minutes and those minutes add up quickly when that task is repeated thousands of times annually across a portfolio. Reducing low-value, labor intensive tasks allows for greater efficiency and reduced overtime and allows technicians to focus on higher value work, increasing productivity and worker satisfaction.
Cost elimination is possible through strategies like condition-based maintenance, which eliminates unnecessary maintenance tasks because the condition of the equipment is telling us it’s not necessary at that time. Automation and autonomous actioning or optimization replace repetitive, manual tasks reducing labor costs.
Cost avoidance is achieved through strategies like predictive maintenance informing FMs to proactively intervene before the point of failure, minimizing reactive maintenance and the high cost of associated collateral damage. Properly maintaining assets can extend the useful life of equipment, thus, saving on replacement costs. Implementing proactive energy conservation strategies reduces energy consumption and costs.
Having the ability to dynamically manage operations optimizes energy consumption, maximizes productivity and efficiency, reduces operational costs, improves compliance, increases asset value, enhances occupant comfort and health, and allows for vital progress toward decarbonization goals.