Celebrating Facilities Management

Celebrating Facilities Management

‘World FM Day’, the worldwide celebration of the facilities management takes place this Wednesday 13 July 2016. To celebrate, FM professionals, and members of facilities management associations across the globe will be hosting celebrations throughout the week from 11 – 15 July.

World FM Day aims to recognise the work that facilities management professionals contribute to businesses worldwide. This year the theme is ‘Empowering people for a productive world’. It aims to look at how facilities management enables different business disciplines to collaborate to deliver high quality business performance.

Duncan Waddell Chairman of Global FM said: “This World FM Day year’s theme will help to reinforce and remind the business leaders and the general public that FM professionals play a key role in enabling business to thrive. This can be through providing engaging workplaces or developing customer experiences which excel. Throughout the week our members plan to showcase the role which facilities management can play in enabling business through a series of events which will take place across the world.”

In New Zealand, FMANZ (the Facilities Management Association of New Zealand is celebrating World FM Day with a series of National Quiz Nights in Wellington, Auckland, Christchurch, Hamilton on Wednesday night.

A selection of other events taking place around the world include:
• Facility & Hospitality Management Conference, Mexico
• IFMAFMCC Live Session by Michel Theriault: “Pumping Up Your Profession : Selling FM in your Organization, Toronto, Canada
• TAD World FM Day Celebration, Sudan
• FMCU “Lunch and Learn sessions” to learn more about FM in the work place, China
• IFMAFMCC live Session by Rajessh Deb Roy and Shamsher Sindhu: "Facility Management Now & What Next: India Perspective 2020", India
• IFMAFMCC live session by Geoff Parnell: “Technology - Enabler or Disabler”, Australia
• BIFM International Special Interest Group Breakfast, lunch and evening seminars: Outsourcing across borders: the FM leaders' perspective, The EU referendum result: the reality of our decision, Empowerment and productivity celebrating all that's good about FM, Online and London, UK
• BIFM #WorldFMDay webinar: The Facilities Management Career Development Pathway, Online
For details of all the World FM Day celebrations visit: www.globalfm.org/world-fm-day-2016-global-events/

Winners in the Global FM Awards of Excellence will also be announced on World FM Day. Details of the winners will be available from the Global FM website at 12:00 BST.

In 2015, BIFM’s ‘JLL Property and Asset Management Academy’ submission scooped the Platinum Award, followed by Westminster Schools through IFMA and then the Commonwealth Bank of Australia with FMA, Australia.

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