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Facility Operations

Pulse Points

  • Facility operations is a multidimensional function, requiring solid management skills.
  • Disaster recovery has major facility complications and the facility manager will be intimately involved.
  • Managing the company's environmental program can provide visibility to the facility manager.
  • Indoor air quality may become a major environmental issue.

Most facility management (FM) literature gives either of two impressions of facility operations: it does not exist, or it is a big machine that is turned on daily and operates smoothly with little or no funding, problems, or management attention. Neither impression could be further from the truth. Facility operations is a multidimensional function of FM. It is often ...

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