Facility and venue management

Evolution of professional facilities

Cookie cutter, Dome, Retro

Trends affecting future facilities

Privately financed, Reduce & Reuse & Recycle

What does PAF stand for?

Public Assembly Facility

Definition of Facility management

Entails every aspect of making sure a building is operating efficiently in terms of safety, revenue production, tenant satisfaction, and preventive maintenance.

Definition of Facility management’s goal

Focuses on filling the facility’s time and space opportunities and conducting events in a safe and client-oriented fashion

Top skills facility managers need to master

Infuse Pride, Track and Measure Success, Delegate, Communicate with Purpose, Understand Stakeholders

Key components of managerial functions

Planning, Organizing, Implementing, Controlling

Is designed to help achieve the highest-level goals and objectives for the facility. They are often called master plans

Strategic plan

Is more detailed and is used to help carry out the strategic plan. It includes single-use and standing plans

Operational plan

Can be used if one of the other plans fails and the facility has to pursue another strategy

Contingency plan

Focuses on what operational plans are designed to accomplish; marketing plans and safety plans are examples

Functional plan

Goals

short-term, time specific, and refined

Objectives

long range, not time specific, unquantifiable