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Articles » Benchmarking

Facilities Benchmarking is the identification of industry best practices that lead to superior performance, where data from individual facilities are measured against those from other comparable ones. Each month, courtesy of FM BENCHMARKING, a leading benchmarking online service for facilities managers and CREs, FMLink is presenting a new article focusing on a key benchmarking metric.

FM BENCHMARKING incorporates data from over 400 of the 500 Fortune 500 companies, as well as many other organizations, to develop its metrics. The metrics cover the relationship between Costs, Sustainability and Best Practices, so facility professionals can compare not only their facilities' operating costs to others, but see the differences in best practices as well, which will help them identify and justify what may need to be modified in their facilities. Through a powerful series of filters, each organization is assured of comparing one's facilities to only those that are comparable.

The Costs Survey addresses more than 90% facilities' operating costs, and focuses on Utilities, Maintenance, Custodial and Security Costs and Best Practices. The Sustainability Survey incorporates LEED-EB as well as other Sustainability Best Practices. If there is a specific analysis that you would like us to consider for a future month's article on FMLink, please e-mail FM BENCHMARKING at surveyinfo@fmbenchmarking.com.

FM BENCHMARKING was developed by Facility Issues and FMLink. It encourages organizations to include their buildings in its rapidly growing database. For more information, go to www.fmbenchmarking.com.

Articles below starting in January 2009 were written by FM BENCHMARKING; those prior to that time were written by Facility Issues.


Figure 1 – Maintenance cost per GSF Filters: Type of facility: Office Provided courtesy of FM BENCHMARKINGBenchmarking maintenance costs – How to select the right filters (Benchmarking » FM BENCHMARKING)

Benchmarking janitorial costs – Using the correct filters (Benchmarking » FM BENCHMARKING)

Benchmarking space – Do you have too much or too little? (Benchmarking » FM BENCHMARKING)

Portfolio benchmarking – Example: Utilities (Benchmarking » FM BENCHMARKING)

Reasons to benchmark, excuses not to benchmark, and how to get started benchmarking

Using benchmarking to budget a new or remodeled building (Benchmarking » FM BENCHMARKING)

Using benchmarking to develop your staffing plan (Benchmarking » FM BENCHMARKING)

Using benchmarking to develop 2019 budgets (Benchmarking » FM BENCHMARKING)

Benchmarking security best practices – Part 4 (Benchmarking » FM BENCHMARKING)

Benchmarking janitorial best practices – Part 3 (Benchmarking » FM BENCHMARKING)

Benchmarking maintenance best practices – Part 2 (Benchmarking » FM BENCHMARKING)

Benchmarking utility best practices to reduce utility consumption (Benchmarking » FM BENCHMARKING)

How to apply benchmarking to identify the best practices most likely to reduce utility consumption in your building

Benchmarking utility costs for service providers – Part 2 (Benchmarking » FM BENCHMARKING)

Using best practices to drive utility costs downward

Benchmarking security staff for service providers (Benchmarking » FM BENCHMARKING)

Projecting janitorial staffing needs for service providers (Benchmarking » FM BENCHMARKING)

Projecting maintenance staffing needs for service providers (Benchmarking » FM BENCHMARKING)

Service provider benchmarking, with an example for energy consumption (Benchmarking » FM BENCHMARKING)

Benchmarking – How to get started (Benchmarking » FM BENCHMARKING)

Using security best practices to improve safety while reducing costs (Benchmarking » FM BENCHMARKING)

Using benchmarking to identify janitorial best practices that work best for your building (Benchmarking » FM BENCHMARKING)

Utility best practices designed to reduce costs (Benchmarking » FM BENCHMARKING)

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