The environment isn’t just a fad, it’s an important business reality and social responsibility. One of many ways to demonstrate you are green and put into practice real green initiatives is with LEED.

A North American standard, Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) is a set of standards that cover a wide range of building design and operations activities and technical solutions.

LEED Existing Building Operations & Maintenance applies to existing buildings and provides managers of existing buildings with another tool to improve environmental stewardship. We've provided links to the info further below.

Measuring results is the best way to improve what you are doing. This is the core of almost all quality management systems and benchmarking is a form of measurement - where you measure against something else to see where you are lagging, identify the areas and take corrective action.

Benchmarking should be a learning process, however, not just a measurement exercise. It's a starting point for continuous improvement.

Are you wasting a valuable asset? You can't see it, you don't trip on it, but its cost can be substantial. With any other asset, you work hard to make it deliver results for you and senior management would ask why you spent money for nothing.

Yet many Facility and Property Management systems, including CAFM, CMMS, Work Order management and Help Desk systems, aren't being used to their potential after implementation.

Facility Managers can take a leadership role in reducing costs for their organizations by examining areas that may not have received much attention before. Here are key things you can do.

Does your Company know why a Professional Facilities Manager like you is essential to get the best value out of their Facilities?

You can get better Performance out of your staff and suppliers by changing the way you think about Performance Management.