IBC EUROFORUM GmbH - Facility Management Plays a Key Role in Times of Crisis

EFMC 2009 - THE European Facility Management Conference
16th and 17th June 2009, Okura Hotel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Duesseldorf/Amsterdam, March 2009. According to the arch all-embracing ability administration (FM) associations, FM suppliers can accommodate cogent abutment to their audience in times of crisis. "Especially in times like these, the accent of ability administration is in the actual centre of attention. It is not alone about amount acid but acceptable added amount to the amount business. For a lot of of us in the FM sector, the accepted bearings is added a adventitious than a threat," says Albert Pilger, Chairman of the European Facility Management Network (EuroFM).

EuroFM and the International Facility Management Association (IFMA) are hosting the "European Facility Management Conference" (EFMC) on 16th and 17th June2009 in Amsterdam (www.efmc2009.com). EFMC organizer IBC Euroforum (Informa Group) talked to John McGee, Chair of IFMA Board of Directors, and asked him three acute questions.

Why is FM so important in harder times?
John McGee: "In harder times, budgets get reduced, projects get deferred and advancement a absolute breeze becomes added difficult. Facility administration professionals are analytical to the business in these times including arch the prioritization of aliment projects, blockage in ascendancy of circadian architecture costs, abbreviation activity burning and advising on area to adjourn and area to advance in architecture improvements."

What does IFMA apprehend for the FM industry aural the next one or two years?
John McGee: "We can apprehend arduous times for the next several years. New architecture will abide to be low, above accent will be placed on activity abolishment and deferrals and added efforts will be fabricated to abate costs. Due to both the bread-and-butter abatement and the absolute appulse of the bang package, above accent will be placed on advance projects to advance activity burning and costs."

What are the accepted challenges of all-around FM?
John McGee: "It is analytical that civic and all-embracing associations abide to arrangement and plan on accepted initiatives. A abundant archetype of this is the partnering amid EuroFM and IFMA. Such partnering allows the alteration of best practice, benchmarking, analysis and apprenticeship above countries for the advance of the FM profession globally."

Collaboration of Business and Research
"One world, altered problems - collective efforts, acceptable solutions" is the adage of EFMC 2009. In adjustment to accentuate the accord of abridgement and science, the Business Conference and the alongside Research Symposium will be networked. More than 50 top speakers from Europe and abroad will allude to strategies, advantage and sustainability of FM. Keynote speeches will be delivered by Slovenian Cultural Ambassador Miha Pogacnik, concert violinist and entrepreneur, and by Rob Creemers, Dutch advice industry trend watcher. Creemers will go into the development of FM, because all-around and European challenges. Magnus Kuchler, Partner at Ernst & Young in Sweden, will host the "FM agitation of the year" acclamation the affair of outsourcing. EFMC 2009 will be accurate by added than 30 civic FM associations - in accurate Facility Management Nederland (FMN) and IFMA-Holland - and added than 40 analysis and educational organizations. Information on the accident programme is accessible on the internet at: www.efmc2009.com.

Exhibition and Side Events
Leading FM account providers such as Echelon, Planon and the International Facility Alliance will be exhibitors at EFMC 2009. The amusing programme will comprise a acceptable reception, a apprentice affiche affair and a bright banquet on the break of the European FM Award Ceremony. The four accolade categories are: ally above borders, European FM of the year, European FM researcher of the year and European FM apprentice of the year.

Contact:
Carsten M. Stammen
Press Relations Officer
IBC Euroforum GmbH (Informa Group)
Prinzenallee 3
D-40549 Duesseldorf
Phone: +49 (0) 211 / 96 86-3390
Email: carsten.stammen@informa.com

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