Facilities Management
The definition given by CEN the European Committee for Standardisation, and ratified by BSI British Standards, for Facilities Management is: "Facilities management is the integration of processes within an organisation to maintain and develop the agreed services which support and improve the effectiveness of its primary activities."
Facilities management essentially surrounds multi-disciplinary activities that are integrated within the built environment and the management of the impact in the workplace and on people. The foundation Below are listed some of the key elements in the development of facilities management (FM): - Cost-cutting initiatives of the seventies and eighties under which of the organisations began to outsource any 'non-core' services - Integration of the planning and management of a variety of services that cover both hard and soft services; hard, for example building fabrics and soft, catering, cleaning, health and safety, mail room and security in order to achieve better quality and economies of scale Facilities management today