World Facility
Management Day is an annual event that gives professionals, players and other
stakeholders in the built environment opportunity to deliberate on issues affecting the
growth of the facility management industry in relation to the real estate
industry.
Since 2012,
Alpha Mead has been the organiser of the day in Nigeria in collaboration with
other players and stakeholders. This effort has increased public understanding
of the place of FM in public and private infrastructure management. This year’s
theme is ‘Celebrating Global FM Standards.’
The theme is
expected to be domesticated by FM companies and practitioners across the world.
In Nigeria, companies, practitioners and other stakeholders in the built
environment will converge on Oriental Hotel, Lagos for this year’s celebration
with the theme “Strategies for Implementing Global FM Standards in Nigeria.”
The clues
towards getting the right strategies for the global FM standards have been
suggested in the last few years by Engineer Femi Akintunde, the Chief Executive
Officer of Alpha Mead Group. The mining and analysis of 17 appearances of the
CEO in the news, interviews, press releases and keynote messages in the last 5
years indicate that possible areas that would be the focus of discussion on May
15, 2019 at Oriental Hotel have been preached.
In the
appearances, Engineer Akintunde has emphasised the need for offering
qualitative and sustainable solutions in the industry. He has also pointed out
the need for people (clients and others) and stakeholders to appreciate the
efforts of FM professionals in making living in built environment sustainable
by contributing their quota to the growth of the industry.
To
Engineer Akintunde, “the growth
of facility management across Africa and beyond is creating challenges as well
as opportunities for experts in the industry.”
“There was a growing trend for international businesses
to warehouse their real estate and facilities management operations across geographical
locations under single global contracts. This poses both a challenge and an opportunity
for real estate and facilities management industry in Africa, given the varying
peculiarities of operating standards and conditions across the continent,” he
said.
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