Main Conference

Conference programme: Tuesday, 26 June 2007

9.00
Opening plenary session: Strategy Europe – a future model for a globalized world

Prof. Dr. h.c. Lothar Späth, Chairman Merrill Lynch Germany and Austria and former
Prime Minister of Baden-Wuerttemberg (D)

Coffeebreak

 
Forum A

European best practice in the private sector

Session chair: Ricarda Berg, Head Global Sales & Marketing, M+W Zander D.I.B. Facility Management GmbH, Stuttgart (D) and Member of the Board IFMA Switzerland

11.00
Building and organization – making them fit

  • Why organizations “feel good” in their buildings
  • Critical success factors in managing the fit between building and organization
  • The business case of the Friesland Bank

Jaap G. Wijnja, Institute of Facility Management, Hanzehogeschool (NL)
Gerhard de Vries, Director of Facilities, Friesland Bank (NL)

11.30
The vision and implementation of a space
optimization programme

  • Nationwide reduction of office space with simultaneous location adjustments
  • Implementation of a new non-group-specific workplace concept
  • Managing approx. 50 projects running in parallel

Patrick Vogel, Partner, reflecta ag, Bern (CH)
William Angst, CEO, Swisscom Immobilien AG, Bern (CH)

12.00
Revolution in FM: What is really happening in Europe?

  • Review of the situation and FM options facing
    multinational organizations
  • Discuss what businesses can get from outsourcing FM, based on case studies
  • Compare local and Europe-wide outsourcing solutions

Dave Wilson, Director of Corporate Services, macro (UK)
Paul Yearley, CEO Integrated Facilities & Portfolio Management EMEA, Jones Lang LaSalle (UK)

12.30
Lunch break

IT in FM – space and occupancy costs
Session chair: Prof. Dr. Michael May, Computer Sciences and Facility Management, University of Applied Sciences Berlin (D)

14.00
Computer-based generation of occupancy groups during relocation or area reduction in large organizations

  • Creation of layout plans optimized according to communication relationships and space utilization of specific areas
  • Complexity through iterative planning
  • Evaluation of layout alternatives by means of a performance measurement system and visualization as 3D-Ifc model

Christiane Rettinger, Project Manager and research assistant, University of Applied Sciences Berlin (D)
Michael Marchionini, Managing Partner,
FMK Services GmbH, Berlin (D)

14.30
Leveraging IP convergence to offer FM services that reduce occupancy cost in office buildings

  • Framework to leverage technology advancements combined with radical innovation to develop new facility management business offerings
  • Rationalization of three office facility end-user processes: people circulation, conferencing and workpoint configuration
  • Performance metrics and examples of achievable savings in occupancy cost

Dr. Vishal Mallick, CEO, Performance Buildings GmbH, (CH)

15.00
Space management at Migros – common data base for FM and core business

  • Introduction to space management at the largest retail company in Switzerland (with 1.2 million square metres of floor space)
  • The special requirements created by the decentralized corporate structure and the high level of autonomy of the individual co-operatives
  • Areal data as foundation for facility management and core business, particularly sales planning
  • Multilingualism at the work-place: the complex IT environment and the needs of individual users as a further challenge

Reto Bühler, Member of the Management Board and Director of IT, Personnel and Administration, Liegenschaften-Betrieb AG, Zurich (CH)
Prof. Dr. Ulrich Walder, Professor of Construction Informatics, Technical University of Graz (A)

European best practice in the public sector
Session chair: Prof. Mark-Erik Nota, Associate Professor for Hospitality Management (NL)

16.00
GMIS – Lessons learned at the ETH Zurich

  • FM on the ETH campus
  • A modular approach
  • Lessons learned during an FM/IT project

Walter Iten, Member of the Management Board, ETH Immobilien, Zurich (CH)
Ruedi Brunner, Director of Technical Facility Management,
ETH Immobilien, Zurich (CH)
Robert Schneider, Member of the Management Board, Amstein + Walthert AG, Zurich (CH)

16.30
Nobody does it better. Or do they? The organization of catering on military missions abroad

  • Changing world
  • (International) military and civilian catering
  • Effectiveness of outsourcing military catering on missions abroad

Marleen Klavers-Bakker, Officer, The Royal Netherlands Air Force, Den Haag (NL)

17.00
A new approach to managing cultural institutions: Faceo at Quai Branly Museum

  • The needs of the client: efficiency and focussing on their core business
  • The contract: outsourcing and performance-based
  • The organization to fit customer needs

Amaury de Varax, Business Development and Marketing Director, Faceo, Montrouge Cedex (F)

17.30
End of first conference day

 

 
Forum B

FM providing sustainable buildings and a
healthy environment

Session chair: Victoria Hardy, Academic Department Head of Design and Facilities, Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston (USA)

11.00
Dynamic development and sustainable operation
of complex industrial areas

  • Critical factors for the successful conversion of use of large industrial areas in Switzerland
  • Achieving sustainability by means of integrated development management and careful operation and maintenance of infrastructure
  • Example: Brownfield recycling – Sulzerareal Winterthur

Markus Schmidli, Managing Director of Sulzer Immobilien AG, Winterthur (CH)
Ronald Schlegel, Chairman of the Executive Board of Axima Switzerland, Winterthur (CH)

11.30
A business case for green facilities in SMEs (small
and medium-sized enterprises)

  • Construction and ongoing management of buildings consumes an enormous quantity of the Earth's renewable and non-renewable resources
  • SMEs have been neglected in the challenge to build and operate buildings in a more environmentally responsible manner
  • The case study of the Waterloo EMS certified green building

Jim Lisowski, Facilities Manager, Lotek Wireless Inc., Newmarket (CDN)

12.00
Energy benchmarking for complex buildings

  • Finding energy saving potential
  • Cutting energy costs
  • Learning from the best

Dr. Marko Virant, CEO, Avireal Zürich, Kloten (CH)

12.30
Lunch break

IT in FM – implementation and integration

Session chair: Thomas Madritsch, Director of Studies, Facility Management, University of Applied Sciences Kufstein, (A)

14.00
Things that think – RFID in FM

  • Process optimization with RFID
  • Efficient identification with additional possibilities
  • Reliability of data collection.

Gregor Hotz, Consultant, pom+ Consulting AG, Zurich (CH)

14.30
The new approach C2 & C2 in Madrid's public hospitals

  • C2 & C2 – customer care and communication centre: an innovative step ahead
  • Customer care and communication centre is the central and unique information distribution point
  • Implementation of this new approach is IT-based

Adolfo Molina Esteban, Consultant Partner,
Facilitec S.A., Madrid (E)

15.00
Automation boot camp 103 – design and deployment of CAFM and TIFM solutions in 30 Days

  • How to avoid pitfalls by learning how to interpret IFM benchmarks and best practices
  • How to work with an existing organization and
    effectively use outsourcing agents and consultants

Bruce Kenneth Forbes, CEO, Archibus, Boston (USA)

15.30
Coffee break

FM supporting business continuity and risk management
Session chair: Victoria Hardy, Academic Department Head of Design and Facilities, Wentworth Institute of Technology,
Boston (USA)

16.00
The profitable facility: an examination of facility
factors that affect profitability

  • Know the important considerations about a facility that affect business continuity
  • Discuss factors that may affect the actual cost of a facility
  • Examine factors that may affect employee turnover and its related cost

Charles Carpenter, Texas State University,
San Marcos, TX (USA)

16.30
Relocation risks of SMEs: facility owner perspective

  • Relocation is considered as a risky and stressful business among SMEs
  • Understanding these risks may serve as a competitive advantage in the search for new tenants
  • Risk perception divided in five categories: financial risk, functional risks, corporate culture risks, interest group risks and future risks

Heidi Marja Rasila, Research Scientist, Helsinki University of Technology (FIN)

17.00
End of first conference day




Conference programme: Wednesday, 27 June 2007

9.00
Opening plenary session – Reach for the heights!

Cathy O’Dowd, mountaineer and adventurer, South Africa

Coffee break

 
Forum A

Defining core business

Session chair: Guido Walt, President, Maintenance and Facility Management Society (MFS), (CH)

11.00
Is multiple sourcing useful as a management tool
for the facility manager?

  • The concept of multiple sourcing and expected advantages
  • The research: effect of competition during the whole contract period on quality and costs
  • The results and recommendations

Alex de Vries, Contract Manager Facilities, NV Nederlandse Gasunie, Groningen (NL)

11.30
Document management: economies by means
of outsourcing and process optimization

  • Are you familiar with your document processes?
  • Is the outsourcing of document processes an interesting business area for facility managers?
  • What are the main factors contributing to the successful outsourcing of document processes?

Konrad Sommer, Vice-President, Océ Business Services, Océ HQ (NL)
Fabrizio Pedrazzini, Head of Employee Care, HR Department, Roche Italia S.P.A. (I)

12.00
Performance-based facility management contracting at the International Monetary Fund (IMF)

  • Defining facility management service levels and benchmarking facility costs at the IMF
  • Identifying quality improvements and providing incentives for innovation
  • Developing a performance-based contracting mechanism for delivery of facility management services

Christopher P. Hodges, Principle, Facility Engineering Associates, Washington DC (USA)
Farook Dadi, Section Chief, Operations and Maintenance Section, International Monetary Fund, Washington DC (USA)
Stephen Sakach, Senior Facilities Officer, International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington DC (USA)

12.30
Lunch break

Customer care and communication in facility management
Session chair: Susanne Hofer, Lecturer for Hospitality Management, University of Applied Sciences Waedenswil (CH)

14.00
Developing the facility management service
value chain

  • FM as a source of competitive advantage for the organization
  • Quality dimensions important to supplier performance and customer satisfaction
  • Quality dimensions that benefit suppliers and customers

Peter McLennan, Course Director MSc Facility and Environment Management, University College, London (UK)
Hermen Jan van Ree, Senior Research Fellow, Workplace Innovation Centre, University College, London (UK)

14.30
Cementing customer service
L. Kay Allen, Facilities Management, Qatar Foundation,
Doha, Qatar

15.00
Service controlling in FM – an important success
factor for clients and service providers
Why performance transparency is a decisive success
factor
Mutual needs of clients and service providers

  • Deployment of suitable instruments

Joachim Ziegler, Head M&A and international projects, M+W Zander D.I.B. Facility Management GmbH, Stuttgart (D)

15.30
Coffee break

 
Forum B

Trends and innovation in FM – standards,
performance and measurements

Session chair: Daniel Berti, Head of Professional Support, Wetrok AG (CH)

11.00
An FM balanced performance profiling tool

  • Learn how to profile of your organization
  • Compare your organization's FM strategy against industry best practice
  • Understand balanced FM profiling

Prof. John Gilleard, Head of Department of Building Services Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (HK)

11.30
“ProLeMo” – process-performance model in
facility management

  • A standard for processes and performance
  • Clear classification of the processes and performance to the costs of use
  • Alignment with international standards

René Sigg, Managing Director, Intep, Zurich (CH)

12.00
Can the term “facility management” be saved
by the new European Norm?

  • Production site analysis facility management
  • The new European Norm in facility management
  • The facility management business model
  • Effects, benefits and further development

Marc Christen, ETH-Rat Real Estate Controlling,
Swiss Federal Institute for Technology Zurich (CH)

12.30
Lunch break

Trends and innovation in FM – workplace
Session chair: Helena Ohlsson, Senior Consultant, Johnson Controls, London and Member of EuroFM Board

14.00
Workplace management in Japan:
the tide of transformation

  • Illustration of business climate in Japan that facility managers face
  • Cases illustrating the new workplace management to fit the business climate
  • Emerging workplace creation and management process

Yoshiki Ikeda, Director, Japan Facility Management Promotion Association, Tokyo (J)

14.30
Workplace tendencies in Europe

  • Flexible working workplace strategies are the tendency in Europe.
  • Flexible office gives flexibility to business.
  • Flexible office is a “win-win” solution for employees and companies.

Francisco Vázquez, President and Owner, 3G Office, Madrid (E)

15.00
Integrated workplace management – more
connections, greater value

  • A discussion of issues presently facing facility
    management professionals
  • How technology plays a vital role in addressing these issues as well as
  • improving customer service and
    driving down costs for facility managers
  • Best practices and implementation success stories from the field

Michael Schley, CEO and Founder, FM Systems,
Raleigh, NC, (USA)

15.30
Coffee break

 


 


16.00
Closing plenary session – Karaoke capitalism and the need for innovation

Dr. Kjell A. Nordström, Associate Professor, Institute of International Business (IBB),
Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden

17.30
End of the conference

 




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