• Understand how facility managers administer and manage construction and relocation projects
• Learn about the policies and procedures developed and administered by facility managers that impact building occupants on a daily basis
• Learn how facility managers contribute to their company’s social responsibility through sustainable building operations

Topic 1- Contracts and Projects
Discuss facility management purchasing procedures, contracting, negotiating, project management, the impact of building codes, and how facility managers tie all these things together through good organizational skills.

Topic 2-Facility Management Administration
Learn about “background” administrative items such as: policies and procedures, employee handbook and company culture.

Topic 3-Sustainability
Discuss the relationship between facility management and their company’s corporate social responsibility program, and how sustainable building operations positively impact occupants by providing a healthy environment.

Topic 4-Office Services
Discuss the most common types of office equipment, various types of office services as well as functions like the mailroom and copying, and the supplies needed in each of these areas.

Topic 5 – Facility Location / Relocation Planning
Learn about all aspects of facility location, ranging from establishing a new facility and expanding, downsizing and moving a facility, all the way to (when necessary) closing a facility.

Topic 6-Program Wrap-up