Course description
Demand for sustainable facility professionals is on the rise, including those with advanced certifications and accreditations. Among the most sought-after are candidates with Sustainable facility professional (SFP) certification. However, facility management professional certification sets these individuals apart in other ways.
For businesses looking for a leader to help shape and mould their facilities, this Sustainability facility professional certification will help you do just, it not only demonstrates a person’s understanding of critical facility management competencies, it’s also a sign of their ongoing commitment to the profession. This Sustainability Facility Professional (SFP) program is a time-tested credential that helps facility managers make data-driven decisions and understand sustainable best practices.
This course on Sustainability facility professional will provide an understanding to the participants to help them increase efficiency, think strategically and improve their company's performance by understanding sustainability and exhibiting advanced knowledge of how to operate and orchestrate facilities.
Upcoming start dates
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Suitability - Who should attend?
The course on sustainable facility professional is implied for:
- One trying to build a career in sustainable facility Management or those that want to learn about the Facility Management profession.
- Anyone with a good work experience in facility management
Outcome / Qualification etc.
After successful completion of this course you would be able to :
- Better fundamental understanding of core facility concepts
- Professionals gain more confidence in their job performance
- Continuing education demands keep SFPs attuned to industry best practices
- SFP certification (and other accreditations) stands out on résumés
- SFPs can command a higher salary due to their formalized education
- Certification opens the door to upward mobility, including higher accreditations
Training Course Content
Day 1
- Define sustainability
- Define the Triple Bottom Line and its intersections.
- Define strategy.
- State how sustainability impacts the strategic planning model.
- State how to align the FM strategy with the overall organization’s strategy.
- Discuss the four phases of developing an enterprise-wide sustainability plan.
- Identify and describe the five principles an SFP should focus on regarding sustainability.
Day 2
Communicating and Reporting on Sustainability
- List the ten elements of a stronger communications strategy.
- Discuss the basic principles for communicating a sustainability strategy.
- Discuss the six principles of quality reporting.
- State the three primary questions to ask when deciding on a sustainability reporting strategy
- Define change management.
- List the three keys to leading change.
- Describe the five things that successfulleaders must do well to manage change.
- List the phases of change.
- Discuss how to monitor and evaluate change.
Day 3
MANAGING SUSTAINABLE FACILITIES
- Describe the typical elements of a sustainability policy.
- Explain the advantages of creating a topic matrix.
- List the development phases of a sustainability plan.
- Describe the activities in the planning stage.
- Define the concept of the time value of money (TVM).
- Describe the four financial tools most commonly used for decision making
- Define purchasing and procurement and explain the differences between them.
- Describe the steps in the procurement process.
Day 4
OPERATING SUSTAINABLE FACILITIES
- Describe and illustrate the goals of sustainable energy use.
- Describe general approach to calculating greenhouse gas emissions.
- Describe examples of distributed generation,including combined heat and power systems and on-site energy systems using renewable energy sources.
- Explain the purpose and process of buyback
- Support the need for initiatives aimed at improving a facility’s sustainable use of water resources.
- Summarize key goals in increasing the sustainability of a facility’s water consumption.
Day 5
Workplace Management
- Explain how workplace management improves facility sustainability from environmental, economic and social perspectives.
- Provide examples of metrics that could be used to measure facility effectiveness in workplace management.
- Define different types of waste and the process of waste management.
- List levels in the waste hierarchy
- Explain how facility services can be affected by organizational commitment to sustainability
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