Master - Facility Management

(School of Engineering)

Facility managers are all-around experts, with knowledge of business and property management, technology, marketing and information technology. They have management qualities and a strong personality that can lead, present and delegate. They show team spirit. Their activities include strategic planning and creative conception.

Client-oriented thinking is especially important since facility managers are service providers for various contact persons.Property management for industries, trade, banks, and administration is changing. Enterprises require buildings and facilities to be dealt with both economically and ecologically. Such tasks must be holistically fulfilled, by specialists. As an all-rounder, the facility manager not only unlocks savings potential during a property’s usage phase but also ensures functionality and optimises services throughout the building and its facilities.... [-]

Interested in the challenging and growing industry of Facility and Real Estate Management? Consider applying for our exciting master Facility Management and Real Estate Management. During this master, we prepare you for a strategic management function in this dynamic field of work!

Facility management and real estate management have grown out to be specialised management disciplines. Managers understand that without a secondary process a primary process cannot exist. Nowadays facility management and real estate management play a key role in the overall business.

As a result of this development, facility and real estate managers are more involved in the company’s strategy than ever before and not only from a secondary process point of view. Together assets and facilities services are responsible for the appropriate support of the primary processes and its stakeholders. Together with the core business, they are partners in a kind of joint venture for the benefit of all the stakeholders. Departmental borders get blurred and all business processes come together.... [-]

Facility Management is one of the fastest growing disciplines in the world of business management, since poor management of the costs associated with real estate assets (rent, consumption, general services of the building, etc ...) can suppose for the companies overcost of first magnitude.

The business dynamics are currently immersed in an accelerated process of change. Buildings, traditionally static over time, are also subject to these flexibility requirements.

According to data provided by IFMA Spain, the approximate volume of the Facility Management sector is around 50,500 million euros. The Facility Management department administers the second cost center of any organization and a professional and strategic management of the property and its services would save between 20% and 30% of the total of its activity expenditure, increasing the profit net annual between 6% and 9%. According to IFMA Spain, the optimization opportunity in the public sector is around 6,000 million euros, and close to 7,000 million euros in private business.... [-]