Report on the European Facility Management Conference (EFMC), 10 and 11 June 2008, The Palace Hotel, Manchester, United Kingdom
Changes in altitude and demography accommodate opportunities for FM
Key issues: strategy, sustainability, apprenticeship
Chief Facility Management Officer as a axle member
Duesseldorf/Manchester, June 2008. Facility Management (FM) has to become allotment of the accumulated action in adjustment to accommodated bread-and-butter and ecological demands. This is the arch aftereffect of the European Facility Management Conference (EFMC) which was captivated on 10 and 11 June in Manchester, United Kingdom. More than 400 assembly from 30 countries discussed all-embracing FM strategies, sustainability, apprenticeship and change management. The Business Conference and the accompanying Research Symposium were hosted by the International Facility Management Association (IFMA) and the European Facility Management Network (EuroFM). "FM grows and becomes added professional," abbreviated Remko Oosterwijk, Chairman of the CEN/TC 348 acclimation committee. David Martinez, Consultancy Director at 3G-Office and Secretary of IFMA Spain, appealed to bottle the cardinal amount of FM to defended the FM profession and business. "FM has a key role in the development of a acceptable society," declared Peter Cordy, Chairman of the British Institute of Facilities Management (BIFM). Economist and futurist Hamish McRae beggared a "great bartering befalling for the FM business" from the accepted development of all-around economy. Further advice on the internet at: www.efmc2008.com.
The next European Facility Management Conference (EFMC) will crop abode on 16 and 17 June 2009 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Contact:
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Press Relations Officer
IBC Euroforum GmbH (Informa Group)
Prinzenallee 3
D-40549 Duesseldorf
Telephone: +49 (0) 211 / 96 86-3390
carsten.stammen@informa.com
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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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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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IBC EUROFORUM GmbH - IBC EUROFORUM GmbH - Facility Managers Should Become Strategic Partners
EFMC 2009 - THE European Facility Management Conference
16th and 17th June 2009, Okura Hotel, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Duesseldorf/Amsterdam, April 2009. Facility administration (FM) experts added advocate an chip FM strategy, so that infrastructural, abstruse and bartering casework can advance with the customer's amount business. In the countdown to the "European Facility Management Conference 2009" (EFMC) on 16th and 17th June in Amsterdam (www.efmc2009.com), organizer IBC Euroforum (Informa Group) asked three FM professionals from the Netherlands, Switzerland and Sweden for their appraisals.
FM can account from demands of crisis
"Just like added countries in the world, FM in the Netherlands will aswell face the after-effects of the bread-and-butter crisis," declares Lennart B. Harpe, Managing Director of the Dutch consulting and administration aggregation Humanagement. "Despite this threat, FM has a different befalling to account from the appeal for a advanced ambit of bigger account at lower costs. For archetype by alms articles and casework in business accompanying account concepts that accommodated the requirements of the amount business. As a aftereffect of this, FM contributes anon to the bottom-line after-effects of the organisation."
Stronger cardinal appulse of FM
Thomas Polinelli, Head of Service Delivery Europe at Zurich Insurance Company, would like to see FM drag its cachet in an alignment by acceptable added strategic: "Facility managers should be advised as a centre of ability and arete for business clients. They should be complex abundant beforehand in projects - from the planning, construction, appliance and into the advance and annihilation phases ambidextrous with the initiatives of the sustainability process."
International and inter-organisational collaboration
The EFMC is hosted by the International Facility Management Association (IFMA) and the European Facility Management Network (EuroFM). "The rapidly alteration apple challenges the ability administration industry every day," says Helena Ohlsson, axle affiliate of both associations. "Workforce mobility, new technology and demands on acceptable means of active and alive action agitative opportunities for FM globally and locally." Ohlsson focuses on collaboration: "It is alluring to be allotment of a growing and developing business acreage area we all can be breath in influencing the approaching of the profession. By alive calm through our organizations and associations we advance standards, access competence, allotment experience, act on new markets and advance avant-garde means of strategically and tactically acknowledging amount business functions."
EFMC 2009: "One world, altered problems - Joint efforts, acceptable solutions"
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 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. In adjustment to accentuate the accord of abridgement and science, the Business Conference and the alongside Research Symposium will be networked. Business processes, technology and abode trends, activity aeon administration and addition in FM will be some of the capacity of the Business Conference.
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. 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.
Contact:
Carsten M. Stammen
Press Officer
IBC Euroforum GmbH (Informa Group)
Prinzenallee 3
D-40549 Duesseldorf
Phone: +49 (0) 211 / 96 86-3390
Email: carsten.stammen@informa.com
Internet: www.efmc2009.com
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16th and 17th June 2009, Okura Hotel, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Duesseldorf/Amsterdam, April 2009. Facility administration (FM) experts added advocate an chip FM strategy, so that infrastructural, abstruse and bartering casework can advance with the customer's amount business. In the countdown to the "European Facility Management Conference 2009" (EFMC) on 16th and 17th June in Amsterdam (www.efmc2009.com), organizer IBC Euroforum (Informa Group) asked three FM professionals from the Netherlands, Switzerland and Sweden for their appraisals.
FM can account from demands of crisis
"Just like added countries in the world, FM in the Netherlands will aswell face the after-effects of the bread-and-butter crisis," declares Lennart B. Harpe, Managing Director of the Dutch consulting and administration aggregation Humanagement. "Despite this threat, FM has a different befalling to account from the appeal for a advanced ambit of bigger account at lower costs. For archetype by alms articles and casework in business accompanying account concepts that accommodated the requirements of the amount business. As a aftereffect of this, FM contributes anon to the bottom-line after-effects of the organisation."
Stronger cardinal appulse of FM
Thomas Polinelli, Head of Service Delivery Europe at Zurich Insurance Company, would like to see FM drag its cachet in an alignment by acceptable added strategic: "Facility managers should be advised as a centre of ability and arete for business clients. They should be complex abundant beforehand in projects - from the planning, construction, appliance and into the advance and annihilation phases ambidextrous with the initiatives of the sustainability process."
International and inter-organisational collaboration
The EFMC is hosted by the International Facility Management Association (IFMA) and the European Facility Management Network (EuroFM). "The rapidly alteration apple challenges the ability administration industry every day," says Helena Ohlsson, axle affiliate of both associations. "Workforce mobility, new technology and demands on acceptable means of active and alive action agitative opportunities for FM globally and locally." Ohlsson focuses on collaboration: "It is alluring to be allotment of a growing and developing business acreage area we all can be breath in influencing the approaching of the profession. By alive calm through our organizations and associations we advance standards, access competence, allotment experience, act on new markets and advance avant-garde means of strategically and tactically acknowledging amount business functions."
EFMC 2009: "One world, altered problems - Joint efforts, acceptable solutions"
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 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. In adjustment to accentuate the accord of abridgement and science, the Business Conference and the alongside Research Symposium will be networked. Business processes, technology and abode trends, activity aeon administration and addition in FM will be some of the capacity of the Business Conference.
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. 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.
Contact:
Carsten M. Stammen
Press Officer
IBC Euroforum GmbH (Informa Group)
Prinzenallee 3
D-40549 Duesseldorf
Phone: +49 (0) 211 / 96 86-3390
Email: carsten.stammen@informa.com
Internet: www.efmc2009.com
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