What is the importance of facilities management?

Facility management helps ensure the functionality, comfort, safety, and efficiency of buildings and grounds, infrastructure, and real estate. Your efforts can be crucial to space optimization, guiding capital projects, energy management and maintenance, lease accounting, and workplace experience. Read more about it and MASE’s facility management solutions in this article.

What are the benefits of facility management?

Facilities management is an important function that can help organizations improve their safety, security, efficiency, productivity, cost-effectiveness, and environmental impact.

Facilities management includes:

• Lease management, including lease administration and accounting
• Capital project planning and management
• Maintenance and operations
• Energy management
• Occupancy and space management
• Employee and occupant experience
• Emergency management and business continuity
• Real estate management

Facility management is crucial for ensuring the safety and security of employees and visitor and facilities managers are responsible for conducting regular inspections, implementing safety procedures, and responding promptly to any incidents. By maintaining a safe environment, they protect the well-being of everyone who enters the facility. Additionally, well-maintained facilities improve the efficiency and productivity of operations. Ensuring that equipment is properly operated and maintained helps prevent downtime and maximizes the organization's performance.

If you are responsible for facility management and seek to enhance safety, efficiency, and sustainability while reducing costs, look no further than Multi Air Services Engineers (MASE). We specialize in delivering comprehensive facilities management services that precisely meet these essential requirements.

What are the 3 key concepts of facility management?

Many concepts and principles are involved in Facility Management, making it a multifaceted discipline. Understanding and practicing effective facility management involves three fundamental concepts:

Life Cycle Management:

Life cycle management is an important concept in facility management that considers the whole life cycle of assets inside a facility, from planning and procurement to operation, maintenance, and final disposal or replacement. To ensure that assets are used to their full potential, are properly maintained, and are improved or replaced as needed, facility managers must take a proactive and strategic approach to asset management. This idea aids in cost reduction, asset value maximization over time, and resource allocation optimization.

User Experience (UX):

In facility management, user experience is all about designing spaces that satisfy the requirements and demands of the facility's users—staff, guests, and other stakeholders. This idea highlights the significance of creating a welcoming, secure, and functional environment that improves occupant happiness and well-being. Several things can be taken into account when thinking about the user experience, including ergonomic workstations, effective use of available space, accessibility, and the general standard of the indoor environment.

Sustainability and Environmental Stewardship:

Modern facility management systems are built around the concept of sustainability, which stands for a dedication to resource efficiency and environmental stewardship. The adoption of sustainable practices, such as energy saving, waste reduction, green building design, and environmentally friendly initiatives, is a growing area of concern for facility managers. This idea supports international initiatives to solve environmental issues while simultaneously lowering costs, adhering to regulations, and improving an organization's reputation.

These three core concepts highlight the comprehensive and strategic nature of facility management. By implementing user experience, sustainability, and life cycle management concepts into their operations, facility managers can contribute to the long-term success of their organizations and foster productive work environments.

How can MASE minimize the life cycle cost of any facility?

At Multi Air Services Engineers (MASE), we recognize that effective maintenance is the key to minimizing the life cycle cost of any facility. Proper facility maintenance enhances occupant comfort, improves the appearance of the facility, extends the life of capital equipment, and reduces energy bills. All these benefits lead to increased profitability for the owner. We analyze the condition of the facility and its environment to offer a high-quality maintenance program that delivers economic benefits and customer satisfaction.

MASE holds a GSA Schedule contract 03FAC for Facilities Maintenance and Management. Our comprehensive maintenance contracts include services such as janitorial, mechanical, electrical, building management systems (controls), elevators, and landscaping. This wide range of services ensures that every aspect of your facility is well-maintained and operates efficiently, keeping your overall maintenance costs low.

We have also identified an industry issue where many facilities have obsolete or poorly serviced control systems, often leading to costly replacements. With our Distech Controls Integration Services, customers can maintain and upgrade their existing control systems, significantly reducing the cost of renewal. MASE currently serves various facilities, including federal buildings, hospitals, military bases, and office buildings. Contact MASE today to learn how we can help you minimize the life cycle cost of your facility and enhance its overall efficiency.