Addressing needs for deferred maintenance while planning and budgeting for capital projects is critical to mitigate project delays, significantly reduce the chance of unexpected future costs, and eliminate many safety risks. Overlooking aging infrastructure can often lead to a burden on facilities management due to necessary capital investments being delayed. By getting ahead of and effectively managing needs for deferred maintenance, facilities management can avoid this burden.

Join industry thought leaders and explore best practices for managing deferred maintenance, prioritizing infrastructure investments, and integrating long-term maintenance planning into your operational strategy. 

Learning Objectives:
1. Identify strategies for incorporating deferred maintenance requirements into capital project budgeting.
2. Demonstrate an understanding of the risks and long-term financial impacts of delayed infrastructure maintenance.
3. Formulate a framework for prioritizing deferred maintenance needs to avoid the disruption of capital project initiatives.
4. Outline best practices for aligning maintenance planning with facility management goals. 

Asset management, when utilized effectively, can assist facilities management to gain insight into the real-time performance of their facility, providing the analytics necessary to optimize operations and outcomes. But the impact of these insights is only as valuable as the program being used to monitor, analyze, and display relevant and actionable facility data.  
 
Join industry experts with hands-on asset management program experiences and success stories as they share engaging data surrounding facility analytics and best practices for tracking operation efficiency. 

Learning Objectives: 
1. Identify reliable asset management programs that could improve your organization’s efficiency. 
2. Outline analytics that your organization currently tracks regarding the performance of your facility. 
3. Demonstrate an understanding of asset tracking and what role it currently plays in your day-to-day operations. 
4. List consideration factors necessary for implementing asset management programs based on hands-on experiences. 

With facilities management encompassing so many aspects of any organization, there can often be a grey area surrounding organizational structure and what is typical for most organizations. From building maintenance to asset management, facilities management is wide-ranging and requires seamless coordination with other departments in order to operate most effectively.

Join industry thought leaders and analyze best practices for structuring your organization’s facilities management department and ways to standardize facilities management roles to allow for more streamlined operations.

Learning Objectives:
1. Define the role of facilities management in your organization.
2. Evaluate the ways in which your organization strays from the other facilities management structures.
3. Identify alternative structure for an organization’s facilities management department.
4. Outline actionable strategies for improving your facilities management department and creating clarity for department structure.