After last week's virtual International Facility Management Association (IFMA) Facility Fusion Conference, one thing is clear: it's an exciting time to be in Facility Management! There is so much positive change. It's a dynamic time for us all. At Intellis we are primed to continue bringing innovation to Facility Management (FM) and to help it grow into a truly transformational industry
So what were the top 3 takeaways from IFMA's 2021 Facility Fusion Conference? Let's discuss!
This year the focus was squarely on exploring what we thought was not possible in facility management: digital transformation! It was exciting to hear about the fusion ideas from within and outside of Facility Management that is bringing the industry more innovative solutions than ever before.
In a post-COVID world, anything is possible; and with the right tools, tactics, and teamwork, it is increasingly possible that we can anticipate change, navigate challenges, and adapt our roles and strategies for the reinvented workplace.
1. Climate Change and the Role of Facility Managers
A top concern at this year's International Facility Management Association Fusion conference was the role that facility managers will play in mitigating the worst effects of climate change while continuing to improve the resilience of their facilities.
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The health of our buildings and infrastructure directly impacts the well-being of humans and the environment. In this way, maintaining the built environment—our buildings, dams, bridges, power grids, and transportation systems—is absolutely crucial.
It is in our environmental interest to regularly maintain and improve our infrastructure so that we can boost sustainability and thus better protect our natural world for the future.
This is why strategic facility management, condition assessment, preventative maintenance, repair, and long-term capital planning are essential.
Our FOUNDATION software helps facility managers and capital planners to develop these critical plans with greater efficiency and protects the life-cycle of physical assets of complex facility portfolios.
2. Exciting High-Tech Applications Are Here
The technology revolution continues to gain acceptance in Facility Management. Emerging tech like Artificial Intelligence (AI), 3D modeling, BIM mapping, thermodynamic detection for Facility Condition Assessment, and more!
Artificial Intelligence technologies are making a big impact on society and the facilities management industry. This session explored the ways in which FMs can leverage current AI capabilities to increase contributions to revenue and efficiency in facilities management.
AI has the potential to increase the power and agility of buildings by leveraging the collected data from meters, utilities, BMS’s, sensors, and connected equipment—in order to automatically respond to changing conditions in the weather, occupancy, and equipment performance, so that owners and operators of buildings can optimize energy savings and increase comfort.
Artificial Intelligence enables buildings to become more responsive to the rapidly changing demands of tenants, such as sustainability goals, comfort requests, office layouts, and technology-driven amenities.
Find out which emerging tech trends really matter for Facility Management.
It is our mission to harness these latest tech advancements with our mobile enterprise solutions, such as FOUNDATION so that we can provide our clients with the best software solutions that will ensure healthy building and infrastructure operations while reducing costs, improving productivity, and boosting sustainability.
3. Facility Management Optimization is Central Maintaining the Health of the Built Environment
Investing in and planning for climate resilience is a priority for facility managers and capital planners. Meeting this growing need is no simple feat. With increasingly limited budgets for facility and capital planning departments, it can be difficult to make improvements.
This scarcity of funding means that many facility departments simply don’t have the excess budgeting necessary for what was historically unexpected but is now increasingly anticipated—the damage and destruction of infrastructure due to extreme weather events related to climate change.
Software solutions such as FOUNDATION help businesses to better organize their facility management departments, which leads to less unplanned downtime, higher productivity, and better overall business performance.
When facility managers move from organizing inspection and maintenance with paper, pen, and clipboards to implementing software solutions such as FOUNDATION, customers can reduce costs by seven to nine times.
Facility managers are tasked with balancing increased productivity demands alongside time and budget constraints. By implementing an enterprise facility management solution such as Intellis' FOUNDATION Solution, managers will be able to improve both the financial and operational outlook for their organizations.
Our FOUNDATION software platform has proven to help facilities in many industry sectors! FOUNDATION consists of 4 major functions:
- Conditions: enables users to gather onsite inspection data directly on a mobile device, create real-time reports, and drive deficiency-based renewal and replacement planning.
- Needs: analyzes data collected through Conditions to track and prioritize deficiencies across the entire network of buildings and grounds.
- Projects: automatically scopes, estimates, and schedules facility management and capital planning projects.
- Plans: integrates with enterprise financial systems to provide real-time views of commitments and spend.
Interested in learning more about how our software and solutions can help your facility management team? Schedule a quick demo with us!
