For Real Estate Leaders: Top 5 Takeaways from the Smart Built Environment Forum
Real estate leaders: Are you still scrambling to find your footing? We feel you. In the second week of March 2020, the world came to a standstill—including the real estate world. From our perspective, it felt as if the industry paused, tilted on its axis,…
#5QuestionsWith a PropOps Expert
#5QuestionsWith is an interview series with RE experts to help the industry learn, grow, and be inspired. Read on as FM and PropOps leaders talk to us about the highs and lows of what it means to be a change-maker in the smart buildings arena….
How facility managers can win in today’s reality (video inside)
Women Leadership in Facility Operations during Turbulent Times: What Can We Learn?
This is a guest post by Nihal Nasr, Director of Facilities Management at CIB Egypt. With nearly 27 years of professional experience in facilities management, supply chain, and fixed asset management, Nihal is an IFMA Certified FMP. She was earlier featured in Facilio’s 20 Inspiring…
10 Inspiring examples of Property Operation Teams coming together to fight the viral spread
Isolated squads of property operators taking preventive measures to combat COVID-19 have now transformed into a full-fledged army. The entire community of global real estate companies is going all out to safeguard its occupants and facilities. And all this, within a gap of just a…
Practical tactics on how Property Management can respond to Covid-19
In times of crisis, property operations and management teams can play a highly crucial role in responding swiftly and effectively to the viral outbreak. Although many schools and universities are shutting down and ‘work-from-home’ arrangements being mooted by businesses, the contagious nature of the virus…
20 Inspiring Women who are Changing the Culture in Real Estate
It wasn’t too long ago when a remark like “That’s a man’s job” was just accepted as the norm. For the longest time, the choices we made in the workforce were dictated not by an individual’s calibre but by their gender. Just to give context:…
5 Step Guide to Data-driven Property Management
Global market insights inc just released their report on the worldwide market value for the FM industry by 2025, and it was a staggering 2 trillion dollars! The growth of world tourism has had a glaring effect in driving the need for efficiently managed facilities,…
Linking Return on Investment to Customer Experience in Buildings
We are all accustomed to using our smartphone apps providing us with instant gratification at the touch of screen. Customer Experience (CX) has taken centerstage like never before. Service providers, such as Uber and Airbnb, have brought instant convenience into our lives to such an…
5 empowering ways to steer your Planned Maintenance with no intermediaries!
You strive to keep your building assets in the pink of health. Yes, proactive facility management is a key enabler, no two ways about it. So you prepare an extensive maintenance schedule for your enterprise and pass the baton to your CaFM software to set…
How Al Fajer Facilities Management Improved Workforce Productivity by 13% With Digitised Operations
Facility Management companies are constantly looking out for ways to become a key differentiator in the Facility Management market. FM companies have started to see technology as an ice-breaker to streamline their operations across maintenance management, asset management, sustainability management and more. Recently, In association…
14 FM experts who lead the digital transformation of Facility Management – UAE
You run the operations of an enchanting facility. You have all the resources to delight its occupants, but you realize there is ample scope for cost-cutting and energy savings. You are aware of the hullabaloo around “Sustainability driven by cutting-edge technology”, but you yearn to…
How Facilities Management Software Can Change your Business
As the global real estate sector continues to expand and grow more competitive, companies are fast approaching various ways to maximize their resources, restructure their workspaces and improve customer engagement. In response to this, organizations are fast adopting tools that will advance their aspirations for…
Top 7 things Facilities Management Leaders are talking about – Futureproof Highlights
It was not until we had a jam-packed hall of 50+ changemakers seated in front of us, each one with decades of experience managing complex portfolios and building global brands, poised to redefine traditional ways and spark the next big thing in Facilities Management, did…
Top 5 Predictions for Facilities Management 2019
Looking back, don’t you realise that 2018 has been phenomenal? Be it France’s whopping victory in the 2018 FIFA world cup or the nail-biting recovery of the junior football team players trapped inside Thai cave, 2018 has had its fair share of highs and lows….
7 ways facility managers can create value with technology
Peter Parker, a spider who grew up to the tales of his uncle, who’s persistence in weaving a web, motivated the Scottish King Robert the Bruce to fight his 7th battle against England, was told time and again that perseverance pays. Like his uncle, Parker…
How to be the flash of your facilities: move maintenance in break-light speed
Barry Allen manages facilities at Danville Buildings! He goes to Danville every morning, tracks tenant complaints through mail, assembles all technicians to check on progress and assign any new work. While at his job, Allen keeps his smile on and spirits up. One…
Why the next 10 years will change the way we think about buildings
Buildings are the biggest aspiration of a society. So what happens after they are built? Buildings are a social and …