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Facility management is to operate, maintain, improve, and adapt the buildings and infrastructure of an organisation by integrating people, place, process, services and technology to support the primary objectives of the organisation. Facility management is important to the success of organisations facing rapid changes driven by digital technology and sustainability.

The aim of the course is to provide students with concepts, frameworks, theories, and practical methods to understand facility management from an organisational perspective. The course also helps student to gain knowledge and capability to address business and societal challenges of sustainability in facility management.

The course is structured in three modules.

Module 1: Fundamentals of facility management as a supportive function in organisations. This module introduces what facility management is about including the roles, functions, and strategies of facility management.

Module 2: Essentials of organisational process and stakeholder interactions for facility management. This module introduces organisational theories including organisation management, stakeholder management, change and innovation management. It helps to understand the organisation of facility management.

Module 3: A case-based seminar for applying the theoretical knowledge to conduct management analysis and develop operational solutions of facility management in an organisation for sustainability.

The course also introduces and discusses academic research and trends in facility management and organisation.

Syllabus - here you can also find course literature

Earlier syllabuses

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