Introduction
The Certified Facility Manager® (CFM) credential sets the industry standard for ensuring the knowledge and competence of practicing facility managers.
The overall aim of this course is to provide participants with the knowledge, skills, and techniques needed to perform all the essential tasks required to manage a facility and to prepare you to be a successful facility manager and to prepare you to undertake the CFM Exam.
The course includes important concepts such as strategic and financial planning, engineering design, automation, and maintenance. Participants in this interactive course will learn all the processes and activities required to manage a facility effectively from different perspectives: operational, environmental, contractual, and technical and to make the optimum decisions for their facilities.
Course Objectives of Certified Facility Manager
- Explain the foundations of facility management
- Analyze strategic options and make decisions necessary to manage the facility
- Utilize environmental and contractual factors in selecting appropriate facility site
- Identify the tools and techniques necessary to develop a facility's engineering layouts and make decisions about automation and disaster recovery planning
- Discover the importance of proper maintenance management and project management of a facility
- Apply project management techniques to manage large size facility tasks
- Use capital budgeting concepts and techniques to ensure implementing the appropriate decisions regarding facilities
Course Outlines of Certified Facility ManagerDay 1
Overview of facility management
- Defining facility management
- Role and responsibilities of the facility manager
- Facility management main activities
- Challenges and risks
Strategic Facility Planning
- Retaining services in-house versus outsourcing
- Facility management strategic options
- Outsourcing facility functions
- Supplier selection
- Service level agreements
- Facility location
- Site criteria considerations
Day 2
Engineering planning and design
- Design requirements and layouts
- Approaches for furniture planning
- Closed plan approach
- Open plan approach
- Space and furniture considerations
- Criteria matrix
- Adjacencies matrices
- Relationship diagram
- Bubble diagram
- Block planning
- Facility Management Information System (FMIS)
Day 3
Maintenance and operations management
- Emergency maintenance
- Corrective maintenance
- Preventive maintenance
- Predictive maintenance
- Facility security
Day 4
Managing large facility jobs
- Defining large facility jobs
- Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
- Developing a schedule
- Gantt chart
- Resource planning
Day 5
Facility Financial Management
- Evaluating alternative plans
- Ranking the alternatives
- Weighted factor comparison
- Facility budgeting
- Common ratios and trend analyses
- Capital budgeting evaluations
About Barcelona
Barcelona, the main city of Catalonia on Spain's east coast, is known for its fantastic weather and proud local culture. It is also Spain's second largest city and has all the cosmopolitan trappings you would expect. Among Barcelona's many attractions are the delicious seafood, stunning architecture and vibrant atmosphere. It began life as a Roman city and has remained important ever since. Today, it is a buzzing city offering more than enough reasons to look for flights to Barcelona. Between UNESCO World Heritage Sites, famous sports teams plus great food, there's no shortage of ways to amuse oneself.
Things to do and places to visit in Barcelona
Barcelona really does have something for everyone. The attractions of Barcelona include beautiful beaches to relax on, almost endless historical locations to explore, all the shops you could ever wish for, one of the world's most admired football clubs and world-class eateries - you may never want to leave. Luckily, with so much to do the city's compactness makes it easy to explore. Simply wandering through the streets is a great way to soak up the atmosphere.
Just some of the great things to do in Barcelona include:
- Marvel at Gaudi's masterwork, the Sagrada Familia.
- Sample the wide range of tapas in Barcelona's bars.
- See the somewhat surreal architecture of Antoni Gaudi.
- Wander through Park Guell, which offers great views over the city and out to sea.
- See the Cubist master’s early work in the Picasso Museum.
- Get lost in the winding streets of the Gothic Quarter, known locally as the Barri Gotic.
- Browse the upmarket shops along the Passeig de Gracia.
- Soak up the tranquil atmosphere in the Cathedral of the Sea.
- Watch the silky skills of FC Barcelona in a game at the Camp Nou.
- Enjoy authentic paella with fresh seafood.
- Climb Montjuic for spectacular views.