In this module, facility managers will be introduced to key concepts of FM operations and maintenance.
Learning Objectives:
After you complete this course, you will be able to:
- Understand facility activities; and match each group of facility activities to the correct principle area of facility operation
- List at least three common preventive maintenance practices on building systems
- Describe situations where lack of maintenance led to business interruptions
- Describe at least three predictive maintenance techniques used to forecast operational failures
- Identify facility expenses, and which are operations and maintenance costs and which are capital costs
- Given a component, look up its Estimated Useful Life (EUL) for budget planning purposes
- Write down, in your own words, what facility “operations” means
- Write down, in your own words, what facility “maintenance” means