Searching for bacon, young professionals and the future of FM
The future of FM may be opaque, but for I know Young Professionals will spend more time in this future than I will. The EuroFM organizers of EFMC12018 asked me to give a presentation about this topic at their conference
Setting the stage for young FM professionals
At the European Facility Management Conference (EFMC) in Sofia I gave a pecha kucha style presentation about the need to set the stage in FM for young professionals. Why? These bright young minds are already quite engrossed in their professional career,
Het einde van een tijdperk, en een nieuw begin…
Het begin: NEN2748 Veel facility managers zijn opgegroeid met de vertrouwde facilitaire norm NEN2748, die ons vakgebied definieerde en de ontwikkeling van FM als een professionele discipline inluidde. Met deze norm had Nederland een wereldprimeur en werd ons kleine landje prominent
Why will ISO41001 become THE European FM-standard?
It has been almost two year since my first encounter with the new international ISO standards for Facility Management. The Dutch national standards body (NEN) had asked me to participate in the Melbourne meeting of ISO/TC267 Facility Management, the technical