Technology for Facility Managers: The Impact of Cutting-Edge Technology on Facility Management Hardcover - 2012 - 1st Edition

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A comprehensive look at the impact of technology on facility managers

Facility managers are tasked with operating and maintaining the built environment. Technology plays a big role in this function, and often facility managers are asked to install, implement, and work with a variety of technologies without any prior experience in information technology.

Technology for Facility Managers presents the cutting-edge technology that facility managers will come across in their careers. Each chapter covers a different technology and includes an overview and basic primer about the technology--the current use of the technology, how it's evolving, and how it will impact the practice of facility management in the future--and is complemented with case studies that address how the technology was implemented and the effect it had on the organization. Technologies covered include:

• Building information modeling (BIM)
• Building automation systems (BAS)
• FM automation (CAFM/IWMS)
• Condition assessment/life cycle analysis
• Radio frequency identification (RFID)
• Geographic information systems (GIS)
• Social networking
• Sustainability and energy analysis
• Information and communications technology (ICT)
• Workflow technology that supports standards such as Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) and those developed by the Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC)

Technology for Facility Managers is appropriate as a textbook for IFMA Accredited Degree Programs and as a resource for professionals studying for certification through IFMA.