What is a Facility Officer?
By Katherine Schwartz Demand Generation SpecialistSpaceIQ Officer is a title that commands a certain amount of respect. Whether it’s Officer Friendly who’s writing you a speeding ticket or the Chief Operating Officer at your company, we defer to officers for direction and leadership. There’s no different when it comes to facilities management. What is a facility officer? While this title actually...
What is Facilities Maintenance Support Services?
By Dave Clifton Content Strategy Specialist SpaceIQ Facility maintenance encompasses a broad spectrum of tasks, big and small. While we tend to think of something like elevator repair as the definition of facility maintenance, you could also argue that changing a lightbulb or changing the break room garbage are also simple forms of maintenance. Such a broad scope of upkeep is why most facilities manage...
What is the Average Salary for a Facilities Manager?
By Katherine Schwartz Demand Generation Specialist SpaceIQ One of the first things any job-seeker wants to know when applying for a position is what it pays. Unfortunately, this information isn’t always apparent—especially for an emerging position like facilities manager. Some job posts offer a salary range; others say things like “salary varies with experience.” For professionals interested in a...
What Makes a Good Facility Manager?
By Dave Clifton Content Strategy Specialist SpaceIQ An air traffic controller isn’t qualified for the same job as an architect, who isn’t likely equipped to be a marine biologist. Given these examples, it’s obvious that certain jobs demand certain skills. It’s no different for facilities management. Not just anyone can be a good facility manager. What makes a good facility manager? It starts with a uni...
Relationship Between Corporate Real Estate and Facilities Management
By Dave Clifton Content Strategy Specialist SpaceIQ French fries and ketchup. Football and tailgating. Fall weather and hot cider. Some things fit together naturally and become associated that way. In the business world, one of the best examples of this phenomenon is between corporate real estate and facilities management. It’s hard to have a conversation about one without the other, and both affect ea...
What is BIM in Facilities Management?
By Katherine Schwartz Demand Generation Specialist SpaceIQ Buildings are getting smarter and so are the technologies used to govern them. One of the most prevalent pieces of technology businesses can deploy today is Building Information Modeling (BIM). What is BIM in facilities management? It’s the next step in digitization of facilities, to glean quantifiable information from physical environments. Ev...
How Can Facility Maintenance Reduce Costs?
By Katherine Schwartz Demand Generation Specialist SpaceIQ Facilities are a source of ongoing costs for any business. Aside from the lease itself, facility upkeep requires no small budget and even the best planning can’t account for every cost that’ll arise throughout the year. Most businesses accept the cost of facilities outright, which is why they don’t always see opportunities for facilities mainte...
How to Write a Facilities Maintenance Job Description
By Dave Clifton Content Strategy Specialist SpaceIQ Scalability is an obstacle for many companies, not only when it comes to production and fulfillment, but for staffing as well. One area in particular that’s difficult to staff is facilities maintenance—often because businesses aren’t quite sure of who to staff or in what capacity. They start writing a facilities maintenance job description and s...
How Can Facility Management Services Be Improved?
By Katherine Schwartz Demand Generation Specialist SpaceIQ No matter what area of business you’re in, innovation is the key to staying ahead. How can you do what you’re already doing…but better? Look at every new smartphone iteration or the annual release of vehicles and you’ll see the same concept, continually refined. But it’s not only products that benefit from constant improvement. Companies...
How Can Facilities Management Add Value?
By Dave Clifton Content Strategy Specialist SpaceIQ It’s the ongoing mission of every business to add value to its operations. Whether it’s bottom-line savings or the opportunity to enrich company culture, successful businesses capitalize where they can. That includes leveraging facilities to their benefit whenever possible. How can facilities management add value? In more ways than you think. To under...
Coworking Space Management Software
By Katherine Schwartz Demand Generation Specialist SpaceIQ The rise of the agile workplace has shed light on the need for facility managers to control as many variables related to workspaces as possible. The more you control, the easier it is to coordinate spaces in real-time, at the drop of a hat. Nothing exemplifies this better than coworking spaces. Through coworking space management software, workp...
Building Preventive Maintenance Checklist
By Dave Clifton Content Strategy Specialist SpaceIQ Of all the tools at the disposal of a facility manager, few are so simple or as important as a building preventive maintenance checklist. It’s the key to deciphering one of the most arduous tasks of overseeing facilities: upkeep and maintenance. A preventive maintenance checklist brings order and organization to an otherwise monumental task, and gives...
Five Employee Engagement Strategies That Create Empathy
By Dave CliftonContent Strategy SpecialistSpaceIQ We’re living in a tumultuous time and have been for the past several years. Social justice and civil rights are at the forefront of numerous conversations, creeping into more and more aspects of daily life. Now, with the work-from-home movement in full swing, the lines between work and home have blurred. The need for employee engagement strategies is gr...
What is Facility Management in Real Estate?
By Dave Clifton Content Strategy Specialist SpaceIQ Facilities underscore just about every aspect of operations, which makes them an important consideration in various facets of business planning. Among the largest of these considerations is real estate. What is facility management in real estate? What considerations do facilities managers need to make to optimize facilities, to offset the cost of real...
Why Would a Facility Want to Hire a Facility Management Company?
By Katherine Schwartz Demand Generation Specialist SpaceIQ Every company wants to save money. Bottom line savings can be elusive, which makes it important to spend consciously and save wherever possible. So why would a company want to hire a facility management company and spend the (sometimes) significant costs associated with facilities upkeep? For one simple reason: because the cost of not maintaini...