QSB2443 - Facilities Management

Facility Management is an interdisciplinary field devoted to the coordination of space, infrastructure, people and organization, often associated with the administration of office blocks, arenas, schools, convention centers, shopping complexes, hospitals, hotels, etc. The role of a facility manager is to ensure corporate and regulatory compliance plus the proper operation of all aspects of a building to create an optimal, safe and cost effective environment for the occupants to function. 

Coursework:  

This module is a 100% assignment based. The assignment was divided into 3 sections. In Section 1, we are required to find 5 different buildings and to determine the facilities and features used by each building. Followed with Section 2, we are required to study a case study on GBI and present the green features used under the building in our report. Section 3, we are assigned to discuss the differences between facilities management and construction management, discuss the components to be involved in car parking management and method to reduce energy consumption for common area facilities  

The lecturer of this module, Mr. Andrew Cheong usually shared with us his experiences with his previous projects. He showed us the pictures taken from each of his project which tends to catch our attention and enable us to understand better about facilities management. This module provides me with an opportunity to career brunch into the field of Facility Management in the future. In this module, i learned that it is not necessary that a Quantity Surveyor must stay as a Quantity Surveyor in the forever, with Facility Management knowledge, it advantageous me to be involved in the field of Facility Management.  Last but not least, this subject definitely will help me in the near future due to I have learn more and understand more about different kind of building and facilities there are in Malaysia.