Role of facility mangers during building construction

This research investigates the connect between facilities management (FM) and design on construction projects ,the team owning the responsibility for developing and maintaining a facility support services system, is found to be vital for enhancing the design’s supportive function and preventing operation problems from occurring during the occupancy phase.
The paper reveals that a limited integration among the facilities management and design professions leads to a problem mainly caused by the nature of project delivery processes that prevent external input into the design. Accordingly, the research aims of investigating integration in practice and determining the actions to be taken to improve the situation are developed.
Too often the FM is excluded from the design and construction process. But waiting until the end of a project might be too late to influence equipment, products specified, and maintainability of their building. Besides the Owner’s Rep, the Facilities Manager represents a stakeholders interests from a building’s design, the utilities that are installed through commissioning and turn over.
The Facilities Manager contributes to the proper design and equipment selection from the point of view of maintainability, cost of operations, safety etc., and should participate in the design stage particularly through design standards, sizes of equipment and machine rooms.