Sustainable Facility Management Forum - Doha, 27 and 28 September.

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10 Jun 2009

The main obstacle in planning a sustainable facility management program now remains in a gap between the design and operation. The architect and interior designer still tend to design facilities for form, and often leave function to the facility manager and building engineering staff. Management inevitably inherits some building systems that are expensive and difficult to maintain.

Sustainably designed, constructed and operated facilities and infrastructures reduce impacts of our operations on the external environment. Improved indoor environmental conditions resulting from sustainable facilities are also highly associated with improved patient outcomes, employee health and productivity.

Among the main issues addressed and discussed were Discovering financial benefits from sustainable facilities; Showcasing proven best practices that are both cost-effective and environmentally beneficial; Revealing the core competencies of developing environmentally responsible buildings; Identifying value-added advantages from latest technologies for building sustainability ; Improving sustainable performance through compliance auditing, measurement and reporting and etc .

This conference will highlighted the basis for the sustainable facilities performance criteria, operational techniques and new technology through basic and applied research, best practice benchmarking, outreach and technical assistance in order to further the universal goal of a sustainable built environment and saw the participation of multinational companies like DPP-Bedford UK, Dell International Services, Nakheel, Qatar Petroleum, Texas A&M University at Qatar, Emirates Green Building Council, and so on.