Organisation

The General Board of the association is formed by the Executive Committee plus the four chairman of the Education Network Group, Research Network Group, Practice Network Group and Corporate Associates group.The association is managed on a day-to-day bases by the Executive Commitee (Chairman, Vice-Chairman and Secretary/Treasurer). The Board is supported by an external secretariat.

Ron van der Weerd, Chairman (r.m.d.van.der.weerd@pl.hanze.nl)

Ondrej Strup, Vice Chairman (Ondrej.Strup@hein-consulting.cz)

  Alex Redlein, Secretary/Treasurer (alex@redlein.at)

The Practice Network Group (PNG) plays a leading role in bringing together the national organisations representing practitioners in FM to form a European body of FM professionals. One of the most prominent objectives is to improve the performance of business/companies and help organisations to be more productive, effective and creative as a result of continuous professional developments within the EuroFM network. The Practice Network Group’s work is dependent upon a broad contribution with appropriate professional focus from the National Practice Organisations, which must be ready to contribute actively in recruiting own professional resources in work groups relevant to the prioritised objectives.

The Practice Network Group brings together the national organisations representing practitioners in FM to form a European body of FM professionals and facilitate an exchange of national activities, developments and events. The PNG defines the requirements for professional education and work with the RNG to define research subjects relevant to the FM practitioner.

Susanna Caravatti-Felchlin, Chair PNG (susanna.caravatti@fmpro-swiss.ch)

The Research Network Group (RNG) have most members from research organisations and educational institutions, but input and close co-operation with practice are vital for an adequate and high quality research and development work. FM research and development projects are typically focusing on the integration of all support activities, in time, with the core business. FM Research is about organisational processes (maintenance and operation of the FM service) and about the development and change of facilities as an integrated service. Relevant research topics/issues in FM are:
• FM strategy (mission, business)
• FM structure (organisation, process)
• Work space design and management
• Facility development and innovations, facility concepts for accommodation
• KPI/Benchmarking in FM
• Asset management (corporate level)
• Operation and maintenance management
• Service management/quality
• Outsourcing - outtasking
• FM and e-commerce, FM marketing
• TQM - total quality management
• Information and communication technology in FM
• Lifecycle value/life cycle profit
• Environmental strategies in FM
• POE - Post Occupancy Evaluations.

The role of the RNG is to enable EuRoFM to be the leading internaional thin than and knowledge base on European facility management and to establish a respected research network reflecting the integrated approach to FM regarding the combination with education and practice.
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One of the major objectives of the RNG is to facilitate collaborative research between members that are ‘Centres of Excellence in FM and to prioritise and agree on EuroFM research subjects, topics and agenda.

Antje Junghans, Chair RNG (antje.junghans@eurofm.de )

The aim of the Education Network Group (ENG) is to act as a platform, from which mutual interest and support can be exchanged. This is targeted towards group members and non-members who deal with FM education in the broadest sense of the word. As one of the three focus groups of EuroFM, the Education Network Group will develop plans and activities in close harmony with the other two groups in order to be the leading authority within FM education. As well as being a party of active members, the Education Network Group is a virtual party of people exchanging educational ideas and best practices. To cover a broad range of issues, the Education Network Group will consist of ‘task groups’ which will focus on different topics.

The Education Network Group consists of educators, students and people with an educational interest in academic tuition as well as training for FM practice. Apart from organising forums which will be held at the annual EuroFM conference, the Education Network Group will develop various projects. The agenda for these will be drafted by the Education Network Group in approval with EuroFM as a whole.

The role, or function, of the Education Network Group within EuroFM is to enable EuroFM to set standards of education in FM throughout Europe and to facilitate an active education network in Europe reflecting the integrated approach to FM education, research and practice.
Another role is to assist education establishments in the drafting of their FM curriculum, and to guide FM students to study with EuroFM Member universities. Especially in countries where no curriculum exists yet.

One of the main objectives of the RNG is to develop a fully operable audit process for education standards in facility management and to work towards a European qualification
through training and under / post graduate courses and recognition of one European title for FM (under)graduates.

Aad Otto, Chair ENG (a.j.m.otto@hhs.nl)

The Corporate Associates group form a special category thas supporters of the EuroFM common interest and they are supposed to play an active role in the activities and projects of the different groups. They represent commercial client and provider organisations and are dealing in products for the field of facility management (internal or external/outsourced) and are operating preferably on a national or international level. For reasons of continuity or business development they do R&D (research and development) on subjects of FM or associated. They also may have good relations with educational institutes to support the teaching of FM in the broadest sense. The corporate associates have the same benefits as all other members and they are represented in the Board.

Luis Morejon, Chair Corporate Associates (Luis.A.Morejon@jci.com)

The projects managed by the group chairs can be found at Groups.

Members
Members of the association can be European legal entities, national associations, research and educational institutes -both of a public law nature and a private law nature- active in the field of Facility Management.

Corporate Associates, sponsors and affiliates are profit organisations who have declared themselves prepared to support the association with knowledge and know how and financially by paying a minimum contribution to be determined by the general meeting.

Annual membership fee 2012:
• Non-profit organisations (Research and Education): € 607
• Profit organisations (Corporate Associate): € 1.447
• (National) Associations fee depends on the number of members:

1. 1 to 50 members: € 607
2. 51 to 100 members: € 9,70 per member + € 607
3. 101 to 1.000 members: € 4,90 per member + € 1.092
4. 1. 001 to 6.500 members: € 1,20 per member + € 5.439
5. 6.501 members and more: € 12.128.

For affiliation memberships and sponsorships tailor made agreements the association has developed standard packages that can be adjusted for specific objectives. Contact us for more information.

Honorable members of our association are:

Professor Keith Alexander (former chairman)

 Mr. Hans Braat † (former secretary)

 Mr. Ole Emil Malmstrom (former treasurer)