How Nigeria’s Facility Management Companies Can Profit from Sustainable FM Practice


Every day, the world becomes complex. Social, political and economic problems that were much easier to identify previously are now hidden and can only be discerned in a longer perspective. Various governance templates have been created and tweaked in the course of finding solutions to different problems across the world.
From the developed to developing countries, models have been adopted and still being employed to address problems threatening human existence and ecosystems. The end results are social, economic and political sustainability. Unfortunately, issues like business continuity, security threats, risk management, corporate social responsibility and financial instability have put increased pressure on FM companies to deliver efficiencies in the workplace and other environments where they are needed.
Like other industries in Nigeria, sustainability has become a matter that practitioners and captains of the FM industry must not play with it. People and businesses’ attention has been shifted to sustainable solutions from unsustainable ones in the last three years, occasioned by the Sustainable Development Goals.   

How is Sustainable FM Contextualised in Nigeria?

Infoprations discovered that sustainable FM occurs when companies provide solutions that ensure building and workplace sustainability.
The first strategy towards sustainable FM solutions delivery is the optimization of processes within the working environment. FM companies must ensure that the right processes are developed and followed while initiating and delivering varied FM solutions. This is imperative because the fragmentation of work processes frequently led to unsustainable working conditions and a divide between human and nature. This strategy is the heart of sustainable FM practices. The developed and validated processes are expected to aid development of innovative solutions to problems affecting hard and soft facilities at home and workplace.
Beyond creating sustainable solutions internally, FM companies equally need other professionals in the built industry. This is a partnership, which must be strategic at the solutions formulation and problem execution stages. Knowledge implementation as the third stage of sustainable FM practices in Nigeria entail appropriation of the organisation’s tacit and explicit knowledge during solutions initiation and delivery.
Without this, the last stage, market’s dynamic understanding and value addition would not be attained. Within the market and value added stage, natural capital must be valued. FM companies cannot also do without renewable resources application because the global leaders’ focus is to ensure quality and healthy living for every human and by extension facility by 2030.

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