Effective Facilities and Property Management

All businesses are in property but amazingly only a few manage it efficiently.

The Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors stated that British industry is throwing away £18 billion every year through inefficient control and use of its property assets. Local government, the NHS, the education sector and central government in the UK spends a staggering amount on facilities management and outsourced services. With so much investment at stake the management of an organisation’s property asset’s is a vital responsibility and should be approached in a professional and competent manner.

Effective Facilities and Property Management covers all aspects of facilities and property administration. It highlights best practice in the field: from budget and cost control, accommodation planning, acquisition, building works and condition surveys through dilapidations, health and safety and insurance to maintenance, outsourcing, privity of contract, rating, security, under-letting, VAT and zoning. It also covers the latest legislation covering energy consumption and reductions, waste and environmental issues.

NB: Hard copy versions are available, professionally printed and bound. To find out more call customer services on +44 (0)20 7729 6677.

How does this on-line programme work and what do you get?

• Course access from anywhere through your own personal login and administration suite
• Keep track of your progress as you go
• Easy to use note taking and bookmarking facility to return to areas of interest and re-study
• Individual modules or the full course can be downloaded as PDF files to print or file as you decided
• At your convenience: at your desk, from your tablet or from your home computer
• An optional on-line multiple choice assessment at the end of the course for you to ensure you are satisfied with the completion of your training
• Certificate of completion awarded for your training records

Course benefits

This course will:

• Ensure you are fully aware of your and your organisation’s environmental responsibilities – both ethically and legally
• Show you how to provide security for your property and the welfare of the organisation’s employees
• Detail effective measures on budgeting, cost control and efficient record keeping
• Focus on the health and safety issues facing the modern facilities manager
• Show you how to plan and use the property you are responsible for effectively, efficiently and within budget
• Set out your rights and duties as a Landlord and highlight the pitfalls you need to be aware of
• Update you all you need to know on the legal aspects of facilities management, including tenancy agreements, property acquisitions and types of contracts

Who will benefit from this course?

• Facilities managers and property managers
• HR managers with responsibility for the FM function with their organisation
• H&S managers
• Production and works managers
• Commercial property landlords
• Construction managers
• Company secretaries
• Professional advisers
• Owners and directors of companies without a specialist manager who nevertheless need to know where they stand and what they need to do

Structured to fit into your working day

The course is designed to fit around your current commitments with each module requiring an average study time of 3-4 hours. Course content can be studied on-line via our unique Learning Management System or sent to you in hard copy format anywhere in the world. This offers the flexibility of studying at work, at home or on the move, while having access to confidential help and support from our experts.

David M Martin, FCIS, FCIPD, FIoD, has been Assistant Secretary of two public companies, Scaffolding Great Britain and Gaskell & Chambers, where he was directly involved in property and contractual matters as well as personnel and corporate administration. He was subsequently appointed Secretary and then Director and Secretary of one of the top 250 listed PLCs where he remained for nearly ten years.

David was responsible for a range of disciplines – including property and insurance as well as statutory and legal requirements and corporate/internal communications. The property portfolio comprised over 400 units including retail, manufacturing, warehousing and domestic premises

Following a takeover, he founded his own business consultancy – Buddenbrook – in 1985. Buddenbrook carries out various projects for a range of clients, large and small, including conducting property negotiations, acquisitions and disposals, rent reviews and renewals etc.

David is also an employer’s representative for the panel of members for the Employment Tribunals and a member of one of the Registrar of Companies committees. He speaks at around 90 seminars each year and is author of around 40 business books. A fifth edition of his title The Company Director’s Desktop Guide and a second edition of his The A-Z of Employment Practice are available from Thorogood.

Falconbury’s distance learning programmes have been certified by the Academy of Distance Learning (ADLiB).. ADLiB supplies an unbiased authentication of, and quality assurance for, distance learning programme providers.

Upon course completion, distance learning participants are invited to undertake a final external assessment in the form of an online multiple-choice paper.

Participants are required to achieve a pass rate of 80% and above to ensure that a high level of competence has been achieved within the subject area and to receive the advanced ‘Certificate of Excellence’. The final external assessment can be taken up to three times, thereafter the ‘General Certificate of Course Completion’ will be issued.

NB: The final external assessment is an optional appraisal and those participants not wishing to undertake it will automatically receive the ‘General Certificate of Completion’ for their personal development/training profile.

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