Tag Archives: FACILITY MANAGEMENT

Importance of FM One thing which comes to everyone’s mind while talking about facility management is that it is one of the functions supporting the core business. It is an arm which helps the organisation to do its business well. ... Read More »

Over a prolonged period, people in facility management have been involved in a movement to move away from using conventional cleaning chemicals. Many of the chemicals used to clean and sanitize facilities contain volatile organic compounds, which affect the environment ... Read More »

Today a lot of people have the perception that facility management doesn’t go beyond cleaning services. But that is not the case. The focus has shifted from just the management of resources. Facility management services include five tiers and are ... Read More »

Nandi Hospitality Services Pvt. Ltd, which has been offering facility management services since 2007, successfully operates across the country and has a strong network of branch offices. With a staff strength of 750, Nandi Hospitality is servicing more than 100 ... Read More »

A few years back when Clean India Journal interacted with a number of admin heads of different corporate houses, banks and other business establishments, we still found them uncertain when it came to outsourcing of cleanliness & maintenance activities to ... Read More »

Colliers International India’s NCR Facilities Management (FM) team clinched 14,70,596sqft of property management project for Palm Springs. Palm Springs is a premium residential project from Emaar, in Gurugram which is a home to some of the leading business professionals and ... Read More »

You have had a long stint with the cleaning industry. What is the biggest contribution / achievement you have made? Having moved from the Hospitality industry and after a brief stint (four years) with the IT industry, I began my ... Read More »

Challenges The core challenges are obvious and we all know how imperfect things can be. For multi-sites, they are plentiful. 1. Every building has unique requirements leading to different levels of automation control2. Budgets are limited and resources are few3. ... Read More »

Is the role of finance changing in the hospitality set up? What are these changes? The role of finance in hospitality has become more integrated and enhanced, encompassing various other responsibilities and factors other than purely financial operations. We need ... Read More »

No doubt, Facilities Services companies engage in continued knowledge dissemination and training to get quality output from the workforce. However, there are no standard methods of teaching followed to churn out truly professional next gen FM performers. Clean India Journal ... Read More »

Clean India Journal partnered with German Engineering Federation (VDMA) and GMR Varalakshmi Foundation to bring together the key players in the Indian FM Industry, equipment manufacturer and vocational training providers on 24 June in New Delhi. The aim of the ... Read More »

“Enterprise alignment with Building services” A one-day international IFM summit held on January 22, at The Leela in Mumbai during the Clean India Technology Week 2016 has received wide acclaim both for its content and the high level of discussions ... Read More »

“Enterprise alignment with Building services” IFM summit held on January 22, at The Leela in Mumbai during the Clean India Technology Week 2016 has received wide acclaim both for its content and the high level of discussions which covered many ... Read More »

Southern Railway has invited housekeeping vendors to attend the vendor development conference to announce its tender floating plans. The invitees will include facility management contractors, cleaning contractors, who are involved in manual/mechanised cleaning of railway coaches. The proposed tenders will ... Read More »

Middle East Cleaning Technology Week has provided a wonderful platform for professionals like us from South Africa, where we confront issues very similar to that are faced by the cleaning industry in the MENA region”, said Chreeson Moodley, Marketing Director, ... Read More »

The broadening spectrum of facility maintenance has redefined the business of the service segment, taking it from a mere manpower supplier to housekeeping services and security supplier to a total facility management service provider. “It is time for a change ... Read More »

“With many enquiries coming from the outskirts of Karnataka, we are now planning to spread our wings to the nearby States – first Kerala, thereafter cities like Hyderabad and Chennai. However, this does not deter our focus from ‘Providing Quality ... Read More »

German Engineering Federation (VDMA) in association with Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH launched its Hyderabad arm of its “Skill Development Program in Cleaning Sector skills for Facility Management (FM) sector in India”. The trainings were formally started at ... Read More »

The profession of Facility Management (FM) and Real Estate Management (RE) has evolved rapidly in the last two decades. The increasing need for cost efficiency, business flexibility and transparency is challenging today’s FM and RE managers. This is where Integrated ... Read More »

 Building Information Modelling and SOPs Besides People and Property, Process and Technology are the backbone of FM industry, without which it could make a lot of noise but just be found, spinning its wheels and going nowhere. John Ringness, SFP, ... Read More »