Sustainable Facility Management (10cr)

Objective

The students
• have developed facility management competences with regard to the acquisition of facilities, their development, and the organization of facility and user services in an economically and ethically sustainable way.
•are able to act appropriately in planning facility strategies.
•are able to evaluate the facility needs of an organization from the perspective of core business operations and facility services, and to compare different facility solutions.
•can plan internal service systems for a facility enterprise.
•know the purchase processes and legislation related to facilities and facility services.
•can apply their knowledge to the purchase processes of facility services and their development.
•are aware of the environmental impact of companies in the facility service sector.
•know the systems related to environmental management and can develop the environmental activities of a facility service enterprise.
•can apply the latest research data of facility management to develop operations.
•can assess the usability of research results from the perspective of development in the field.

Content

•organization of facility and user services
•development of business premises
•facility management tools
•facility strategy work
•the information systems of facility management
•the indicators of facility management and their follow-up
•the purchase processes of facility services
•legislation concerning the acquisition of facility services
•the tools applied to acquisition
•the interest groups of a facility service business with regard to environmental issues
•the environmental impacts of facility service business activities
•environmental systems and the principles for their creation in facility service business
•implementing a company’s environmental programme in facility service business
•research on facility management

Qualifications

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Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

The students demonstrate, through versatile assignments / an exam, their command of the set learning outcomes.