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Smart Facilities Management is crucial for Sustainable Cities
By George Adams, SPIE UK’s Director of Energy & Engineering.
The increasing and devastating impact that buildings are having on our environment, the health of people and the consumption of the Earth’s precious finite resources cannot continue any longer. This is especially true with the growth in urban population density – 2011 to 2015 alone saw UK urban density grow by nearly 2 million, but London grew at twice the national rate. With cities consuming 70 percent of the
natural resources and energy we consume and playing home to 50 percent of the world’s population, clearly something needs to vastly
improve. Buildings and city performance isn’t good enough to meaningfully eliminate the disastrous environmental impacts. Looking at the opportunities available,
there are some individuals and organisations proposing that Sustainable Facilities Management (SFM) should be a big part of an integrated solution. However, the concept has not made its mark yet. It is worrying that SFM for existing cities and buildings is yet to become best practice; particularly having the potential to dramatically improve the urban environments in which we live.
It appears that the UK’s building
management sector is stuck in carrying out Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM) activity. Undoubtedly, this work is necessary, but it doesn’t assess the actual performance of the equipment or the system, and so it does not produce the data and insight needed for modern facilities management practices. There are those that will say that SMART
FM provides a simple answer to this problem, but the definition of SMART FM is hardly concrete – for some it’s about the
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