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 Amsterdam
Amsterdam, capital of the Netherlands, is a popular destination amongst travelers from all around the world. Once just a little fishing village, Amsterdam is now a major international city after having become an important port during the 1600s. Throughout its history, the city has had many famous residents, including artists, philosophers and other historical figures. There is much to discover along Amsterdam's quaint streets and picturesque canals. So much so that a flight to Amsterdam comes with a guarantee of cultural and historical attractions that will provide memories to last a lifetime. Amsterdam is a hotbed of culture for travelers of all ages and tastes.
Things to do and places to visit in Amsterdam
From the moment passengers step off their flight to Amsterdam, they will find it a friendly city with a lively atmosphere. Its flat geography means that it is perfect for exploring by bicycle. If you're feeling less active, it the city is also well-served by public transport. The so-called Venice of the North has something for every visitor. Culture vultures have museums, galleries and theaters to see, Families can visit the zoo or the Science Center NEMO.
When visiting Amsterdam, be sure to:
- See the picture-perfect and colorful houses of the Grachtengordel district.
- See the iconic works of one of Holland's most famous artists at the Van Gogh Museum.
- Visit the house where Anne Frank and her family hid from the Nazis.
- Browse through the extensive collection of fantastic art in the Rijksmusem.
- Wander through the blaze of colors that is the Singel Flower Market.
- See the city at a leisurely pace on a canal cruise.
- Marvel at one of the city's many historic churches.
- Learn about life aboard a ship at the National Maritime Museum.
- Discover the Begijnhof's well-preserved medieval architecture.
- See animals of all kinds, as well as the butterfly pavilion and aquarium, at the Artis Zoo.