DISCIPLINE CASE STUDY:
FACILITY MANAGER

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Disciplinary Challenge

Facility and building management is an interdisciplinary business function with the objective of integrating people, place, process, and technology to ensure facilities are functioning properly, offer a safe work environment, and maximizing their productivity potential.   Facility managers are responsible for maintaining various strategic and operational plans that must comply with regulatory requirements and industry standards such as

• Environment, Health, and Safety
  
• Fire Safety
  
• Security
  
•  Maintenance, Testing, and Inspections
• Building Maintenance & Improvements
• Day-to-Day Operations
• Business Continuity
• Space Allocation and Changes

Odysseus Solutions

Odysseus Offers a Programmatic Solution for Building and Facility Management.

Odysseus™ | kms

The Odysseus™|KMS provides building and facility managers with a central repository where development plans and strategies can be accessed and shared by tenants, staff, partners, and  stakeholders.  The secure yet flexible virtual collaborative environment allows for the efficient development, maintenance, and update of planning doctrine.
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ODYSSEUS™ | CPM

The Odysseus™|Compliance Metric Tools are a data-driven, assessment that allows building and facility managers the ability to systematically evaluate the compliance to various governmental and industry recognized programs. 

ODYSSEUS™ | AAT

The Odysseus™ | AAT offers building and facility managers the ability to develop customized assessment tools that can be used to evaluate, assess, and understand community development trends.

ODYSSEUS™ | cbt

​The Odysseus™|CBT allows for the delivery and tracking of learning across the Odysseus™ enterprise. Your programs, courses, and exercises can be harmonized with your building and facility management strategies.

Featured Best Practices

• Community Planning
• Outreach
• Tenant Management
• Compliance Metrics
• Participation

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Community Planning

The Odysseus™ | KMS gives building and facility managers an online tool dedicated to the development and maintenance of plans and reporting requirements.  Odysseus™|KMS offers building and facility managers the unique feature of providing standardization and flexibility in a collaborative environment.  This union greatly increases your organization's ability to manage and coordinate building and facility activities.  

Community Outreach

The Odysseus™|CBT plug-in provides organizations with an integrated learning management system that allows building and facility managers to more effectively engage partners and residents by delivering and measuring the understanding of important building and facility issues.  Odysseus™|CBT provides a platform to deliver and manage customized computer-based training, track course assessments, award certificates upon course completion, and in-depth reporting. 

Tenant Management

In today’s environment of fiscal efficiency, limited availability of resources, and the necessity to balance competing demands, it is imperative that the engagement of assigned work groups and key stakeholders is efficient and effective. The stakeholder management tool within the Odysseus™|KMS can be easily modified to assist in facilitating a collaborative environment to share on-going committee collaboration, offer an archival repository of planning meeting minutes and information, and ensure the active communication with tenants and key stakeholders throughout the life-cycle of the planning process.

Compliance Assessments

Designed from the Odysseus™|AAT architecture, the Odysseus platform offers a customized land use planning compliance assessments tools that are consistent with local, state, and federal regulatory requirements.  Building and facility managers can assess their compliance and integrate the results into their existing reporting and planning framework.

Community Participation and Awareness

The Odysseus™ enterprise offers a variety of tools that can be used by partners and tenants to efficiently solicit their participation in important building and facility management activities. Customized Odysseus™|CBT interactive planning participation module allows committee members, stakeholders, and the public to learn about current programs and provide real-time feedback and input in community matters.  Customized Odysseus™|AAT  survey instruments allows community partners and stakeholders to provide input in the planning process and inform building and facility management efforts.