Facility Management compact
Basics and instruments for practice
Contents
Fundamentals and strategies of facility management
- Definitions and core tasks of facility management.
- Strategic goals and life cycle orientation.
- Approaches based on different interests (investors, owners, users, operators).
- Supply and demand: industry and market.
- Associations and organizations in facility management.
- Information gathering: trade journals, market overviews, trade fairs.
Optimizing organization and processes in facility management - focusing on sustainability and customer orientation
- Structures and processes: Structural and process organization in facility management, starting points for optimization.
- Organize core tasks effectively and efficiently over the life cycle.
- Focus on customer/service orientation and sustainability.
- In-house work versus outsourcing: best practice examples.
- Contract and service specifications: The basis for optimal service.
- Tendering and awarding of facility services.
- Documentation and reporting.
- Added value of software support: CAFM systems.
Designing facility services economically: Costing, quality management and controlling
- Calculation examples from selected service areas, e.g. maintenance or cleaning.
- Establishment of service level agreements and use of benchmarks.
- Identify cost drivers, derive measures to reduce costs.
- Tools for operational (service provider) management, sustainable quality management.
Operator responsibility
- Operator obligations and contractor obligations: Intersection, demarcation.
- Danger and legal situation.
- Identification and legally compliant delegation of operator obligations.
Discussion of individual questions from the participants' practical experience and numerous tips for practical application.
Learning environment
In your online learning environment, you will find useful information, downloads and extra services for this training course once you have registered.
Your benefit
- You can organize core facility management tasks sustainably over the entire life cycle of your properties.
- You design your organization and processes in facility management effectively and efficiently.
- You can calculate facility services economically and put them out to tender optimally.
- You ensure the quality of your services and are familiar with basic controlling knowledge in order to manage your facility services in a targeted manner.
- You avoid costly liability risks.
- You act both economically and sustainably and understand that these aspects are not mutually exclusive.
Further training in accordance with MabV.
Methods
Trainer input, work aids/checklists, case/best practice examples, benchmarks, discussion, exchange of experience.
Recommended for
(Lateralnewcomers to the topic, specialists/executives from building/real estate management and real estate managers whose area of responsibility has expanded to include facility management topics. Employees from purchasing, controlling, auditing and other functional areas that have links to facility management.
Further recommendations for "Facility Management compact"
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Start dates and details
Monday, 27.04.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Tuesday, 28.04.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Monday, 06.07.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Tuesday, 07.07.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Monday, 28.09.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Tuesday, 29.09.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Thursday, 05.11.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Friday, 06.11.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Tuesday, 02.03.2027
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Wednesday, 03.03.2027
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Thursday, 18.03.2027
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Friday, 19.03.2027
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
FAQs: Frequently asked questions about training Management Compact
You will gain a practical overview of the fundamentals, methods, and tools of facility management. This includes strategic goals, tasks, and basic approaches for optimizing processes throughout the entire life cycle of buildings and facilities.
This training compact and aimed at anyone looking for a solid introduction or a clear refresher on the basics and tools of facility management, as opposed to in-depth specialist training courses that focus on processes in the construction phase, sustainability management, or CAFM software,for example.
Strategic thinking helps align FM organizations to users the diverse interests of owners, operators, and users , identify efficiency potential, and improve both costs and service quality over the life cycle of buildings.
By analyzing the structural and procedural organization of facility management and implementing specific optimization measures, recurring tasks can be made more efficient, internal interfaces can be defined more clearly, and costs can be reduced without compromising service quality.
In the context of facility management, it is a matter of deciding which services are provided internally and which are outsourced to external service providers. The training course presents best practice examples of decision-making criteria, contract design, and how to use service specifications as a basis for optimal service contracts.
You will learn about trends in the FM market, how offerings are tailored to demand, and the importance of sustainability and customer focus for future FM practice.
The training covers topicssuch astools for the structured analysis of FM tasks, methods for process design,approachesto life cycle cost analysis, and guidance on relevantassociationsand market sources.
You will learn how to compare FM services in terms of service quality, costs, and value retention, and how to use strategic alignment to manage processes in a way that delivers measurable improvements for investors, owners, and users.
Yes, the compact structure provides beginners in particular with a solid foundation for understanding and structuring FM tasks and applying them effectively in their everyday work.
