Strategic Facilities Management Framework

An RICS and IFMA collaboration to improve consistency and transparency in property information.

The IFMA-RICS Collaboration represents a significant chapter in the history of facility management (FM), providing an unprecedented level of industry support to meet the growing demands of FM practitioners worldwide. The collaboration aims to promote a deep understanding of the FM sector to ensure all practitioners and their clients benefit from consistent, world-leading professional standards and guidance. The collaboration will focus on training and equipping FM professionals with the knowledge and tools they need to deliver and use those standards. This is a major advancement for a profession which is increasingly seen as crucial to any business’s corporate strategy. It will improve consistency and transparency in the property information available and enhance the work of FM professionals by:

• Increasing consistency and transparency of practice across the global FM community
• Integrating FM strategies throughout all stages of the building life cycle and
• Promoting recognition of FM as an aspirational career choice.