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EFMC 2008 - THE European Facility Management Conference

10 and 11 June 2008, The Palace Hotel, Manchester, UK

Facility Management faces all-around challenges. Competition and internationalisation will access in 2008, and amount ability will become added and added important. At the aforementioned time, account tasks are acceptable added complex. Thus, FM today is far added than caretaking; it is a ample bread-and-butter agency which has one capital goal: abacus amount to the amount business of those who accomplish use of FM services. Strategies, opportunities, and functionality of FM will be discussed at THE European Facility Management Conference EFMC 2008. This individual most-relevant FM accident in Europe is hosted by the International Facility Management Association (IFMA) and the European Facility Management Network (EuroFM). The 5th copy of EFMC will crop abode on 10 and 11 June 2008 in the City of Manchester and will a lot of absolutely authorize a new battleground in the FM profession. EFMC 2008 expects added than 600 assembly from all over the world.

For the aboriginal time, the Business Conference and the Research Symposium are circumscribed at EFMC 2008. Key agenda speakers at the Business Conference are Hamish McRae (UK) and Paul A. Tiffany (US). Hamish Mc Rae is one of Europe´s arch futurists and arch bread-and-butter analyst of "The Independent"; he will allege about all-around business and its appulse on FM. Paul A. Tiffany, PhD, is Senior Lecturer at The Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, and administrator of Paul Tiffany & Associates; he will allocution on business and approaching perspectives. In absolute and alongside sessions as able-bodied as in console discussions there will be advised the afterward subjects: Strategies in a Global World, Adding Business Value and the Economics of FM, Business Continuity and Risk Management, Change Management and Process Orientation, Sustainability and Energy Management, Customer Services and Quality Management, Business and Technology Trends, Partnership above Borders.

More than 60 top speakers from Europe and abroad will accord a address at EFMC 2008, such as Stephen Ballesty, Levett Bucknall (Australia); Maxcene Crowe, MCFM Consultancy Ltd. (UK); Jos Duchamps, PROCOS Group (Belgium); Peter Ferguson, Johnson Controls (UK); Pedro Garcia, Neinver (Spain); Preben Gramstrup, Nykredit Ejendomme A/S (Denmark); Mike Packham, Bernard Williams Associates (UK); Svein Harald Storli, StatoilHydro ASA (Norway); Maril van Waes, Dow Chemical Company (The Netherlands); and Kristof Vanvelk, Philips Belgium Luxembourg (Belgium).

The 7th EuroFM Research Symposium accompanying the Business Conference will accord with FM horizons, FM futures, abode management, and account in absolute and alongside sessions, cardboard sessions, and postgraduate workshops. Beside the appointment and the Research Symposium, the Student Poster Competition will be re-edited, and the 2nd European FM Awards Gala Dinner will authority to recognise the a lot of acclaimed able achievements in the industry above the continent.

EFMC 2008 in Manchester will be accurate by added than 28 FM Professional Associations and 37 universities and analysis institutions in Europe. In the UK, the appointment is honoured to count, amidst several institutional supporters, with awful recognised institutions such as the British Institute of Facilities Management (BIFM), the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), and the University of Salford who are actively complex in the project. Other all-embracing associations such as the Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) will be accommodating at EFMC 2008 for the aboriginal time. Also several media ally from all over Europe will abutment EFMC 2008. The complex associations and ally will accommodate added pre and column appointment opportunities such as several workshops, associates affairs and axle meetings.

A programme of themed visits, hosted by bounded ally and accurate by sponsors, will accommodate the befalling of compassionate key issues accepting addressed by FM practitioners in Greater Manchester. And in accession to this, the City of Manchester offers an arrangement of leisure opportunities for visitors which EFMC 2008 will accompaniment with a amusing programme account a visit. The Business Conference, Research Symposium and associated contest will aswell actualize a concrete and basic acquirements acquaintance for all participants to allotment ideas, ability and ability in a association of practice.

Further information: www.konferenz.de/dn-efmc2008

Contact:
Carsten M. Stammen
Press Relations
IBC Euroforum GmbH (Informa Group)
Prinzenallee 3
D-40549 Düsseldorf
Phone: +49 (0) 211 / 96 86-33 90
E-Mail: carsten.stammen@informa.com

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