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Sustainability in Facilities Management

Promoting sustainable facilities management throughout the whole built environment.

Supporting the FM sector to deliver more sustainably

Supporting a sustainable FM and real estate sector

The FM and Real Estate sector has risen to the challenge of delivering smarter, more flexible workplaces, but there is still much to do. Ensuring safety, enhancing wellbeing and improving productivity remain critical objectives, alongside a number of pressing sustainability challenges.

Environmental challenges

The existing built environment and its surroundings have a significant and continual environmental impact. Buildings account for around 45% of the UK’s CO2 emissions.

But the issue goes wider than controlling emissions and the huge challenges of hitting net zero carbon. Looking at the efficient use of resources, implementing a circular economy, whole-life costing and nature positive solutions, and applying this knowledge to reduce environmental impacts and costs is critical to improvement.

Labour challenges, social value, wellbeing and productivity

Targeting and accessing local labour, engaging more smaller, local suppliers and recruiting and developing apprentices help to deliver Social Value at local level. Responding robustly to the risks of Modern Slavery and other aspects of potential labour market exploitation make it necessary to re-think approaches to procurement, tendering, recruitment and management.  Fairness, inclusion and respect is an essential part of the mix.

The sector has a pressing need to attract, retain and develop the best possible talent across the sector and its supply chains, all within a highly competitive labour market. It needs people who understand and care about sustainability. The School is here to help this happen.

Change Management: Challenges of Sustainability in the FM Sector

This short video led by Anthony Heaton of BAM FM outlines how FM has embraced new technologies, partnerships and ways of working in order to deliver a sustainable service offer with their customers and supply chain.

Change Management: Challenges of Sustainability in the FM Sector

Key topics for the FM sector

To help our members develop a holistic understanding of the impacts relevant to the FM sector, we offer a suite of resources on the following related sub-topics:

BIM Model
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Digital

Helping you to understand and develop your digital strategy.

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Energy and Carbon Training

Climate change is the biggest issue of our time and…

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Fairness, Inclusion & Respect Training

Making our workplaces even better for everyone.

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Retrofit

Collaborating to help the industry tackle retrofit at scale across…

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social value
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Social Value Training

Social Value is more important than ever and has a…

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Waste and Resource Efficiency

Changing the mindset from 'waste' to 'resources' and improving efficiency…

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Key resources for the FM sector

See a selection of resources recommended for the FM sector. To view more, visit the full resource library.

Offsite Manufacture
Business Ethics
Waste and Resource Efficiency

Case studies for the FM sector

Explore video case studies from the supply chain on how they have tackled a sustainability challenge in the FM sector:

Sustainability Strategy
Sustainability Strategy
Energy and Carbon
Community

Interested in joining the FM Leadership Group?

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