Facility Design and Management Handbook [With Accompanying] Hardcover - 2001 - 1st Edition

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Facilities management (FM) is a multidisciplinary or transdisciplinary profession drawing on theories and principles of engineering, architecture, design, accounting, finance, management, and behavioral science.

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A new paradigm in facility management This unique, just-in-time resource from profession leader Eric Teicholz empowers you to make your facility state of the art. Facility Design and Management Handbook features the productivity tools, technologies, and stratagems that have revolutionized the field in the last five years.

*Bring your business up to speed with new tools that mesh design, needs, and budgets
*Plan, design, and manage cutting-edge facilities for all types of businesses with greater efficiency and effectiveness
*Find the best, most cost-effective solutions for issues from "greenness" and sustainability to disaster recovery and technology integration
*Use new tools for space and asset allocation, project management, process coordination, and systems integration
*Improve accuracy in financial forecasting, budgeting, architectural and interior design planning, and market research
*Create cost-effective "smart" buildings with state-of-the art security, energy management, lighting strategies, and maintenance efficiency
*Discover innovative solutions for human resources needs such as telecommuting
*Integrate the Internet into your management program
*Automate nearly all your tasks for major productivity
*Get tips from U.S. and international case studies from government, health care, retail, finance, manufacturing, and academia
*Apply bench marking standards and other measurements that demonstrate and assure facility management productivity

Complete with a time-saving CD-ROM loaded with forms, sample documents, and more, Facility Design and Management Handbook is an essential for facility, building, and real estate managers. You'll be amazed that you ever managed without it.

Efficiency-Boosting CD-ROM Sample documents--budgets, schedules, plans, cost-benefit analyses, checklists, forms, audits, more Standards--communications and database, integration, building and construction, CAD conventions; more Web links--to vendors, organizations, educational programs, domestic and international publications, and other resources References--complete listing of helpful sources