Overview
All businesses are in property but amazingly only a few manage it efficiently!
The Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors stated that British industry is throwing away £18 billion every year through inefficient control and use of its property assets. Local government, the NHS, the education sector and central government in the UK spend a staggering amount on facilities management and outsourced services. With so much investment at stake the management of an organisation’s property assets is a vital responsibility and should be approached in a professional and competent manner.
Effective Facilities and Property Management covers all aspects of facilities and property administration. It highlights best practice in the field: from budget and cost control, accommodation planning, acquisition, building works and condition surveys through dilapidations, health and safety and insurance to maintenance, outsourcing, privity of contract, rating, security, under-letting, VAT and zoning. It also covers the latest legislation covering energy consumption and reductions, waste and environmental issues.
How does this distance learning course work and what do you get?
- Course access from anywhere through your own personal login
- Effective measures on budgeting, cost control and efficient record keeping
- Detailed advice on how to provide security for your property and the welfare of the organisation’s employees
- Individual modules of the full course can be downloaded as PDF files to print or file as you decided
- A comprehensive analysis of the health and safety issues facing the modern facilities manager
- Your rights and duties as a Landlord and the pitfalls you need to be aware of highlighted
- An update on all you need to know about the legal aspects of facilities management, including tenancy agreements, property acquisitions and types of contracts
- An optional on-line multiple choice assessment at the end, with a certificate of completion being award
Who will benefit from this course?
- Facilities managers and property managers
- HR managers with responsibility for the FM function with their organisation
- H&S managers
- Production and works managers
- Commercial property landlords
- Construction managers
- Company secretaries
- Professional advisers
- Owners and directors of companies without a specialist manager who nevertheless need to know where they stand and what they need to do
Authors
David Martin
As a Director and Secretary of one of the top 250 listed PLCs, for nearly ten years David was responsible for a range of disciplines, including personnel, property and insurance, as well as statutory and legal requirements and corporate/internal communications (three of his annual reports won national awards).
Following a takeover, David founded his own consultancy, Buddenbrook, which has carried out various projects for a range of clients, large and small, for the last 25 years. He is an employer’s representative on the panel of members for the Employment Tribunals, and a member of one of the Registrar of Companies committees.
David is a regular seminar/conference speaker and the author of over 50 books, including two international best sellers, Tough Talking and Manipulating Meetings, and two employment law/practice updating manuals for Croners/Gee’s, namely Employment Letters and Procedures and Employment Policies and Handbooks. He is series editor for the Institute of Chartered Secretaries’ OneStop series, for which he wrote Company Secretary (in its sixth edition), Director, Meetings, Personnel (second edition), Property, Customer Care, Communication and Profit Management. He also co-wrote Negotiation (with John Wyborn).
Two additional titles by David, The Company Director’s Desktop Guide (in its ninth edition) and The A-Z of Facilities and Property Management (second edition), are available from Thorogood Publishing.
