You are the Facility Manager leading a project to integrate two office groups. You will need a unifying message that guides your communications and decision-making when working with a variety of consultants, senior management, and the affected groups. What is your unifying message?
After a disaster, the facility manager must strive for effective and efficient use of response resources. What item should be included in the emergency response plan to simplify this effort?
A facility manager is responsible for this year's renovation projects. The Vice President has indicated that it is critical to develop and adhere to space and furniture standards while meeting corporate needs within budget. One of the most important projects is the renovation of four floors of a building which will house the Finance and Sales and Marketing Departments. In meeting with the management of each department, a list of needs that they expect in the renovations has been compiled. Some of the needs are easily met within corporate standards, while other needs would require unique solutions. The facility manager has been able to meet most needs of both departments and has also explained to the management of each department why all needs cannot be met.
A week after both departments move, the Vice President calls the facility manager and states employees in Sales and Marketing and Finance have indicated that they are dissatisfied with their space and that the facility manager was not responsive to their needs.
How should the facility manager verify that the groups are dissatisfied and rectify the situation?
After reviewing the lighting of some office areas, a facility manager decides to re-lamp the area. What business and environmental stewardship reasons should the decision primarily be based on?
What is the information gained from a risk assessment, business impact analysis, and a resource needs assessment used for?
You manage a design-build project to renovate a new office space, including infrastructure upgrades. At the 60% design phase, the design-build contractor’s project estimate is over budget and contingency. What should be done first to address the issue?