Facility management metrics

We’re proud of the fact that we’ve again managed to double the volume of statistical data in this, our third, publication, which now includes data on 824 facilities comprising a total area of 7.1 million m2. An important development is that this time round we invited industry experts to professionally review the individual chapters and to write the introductions to them, and we carried out the database analyses using new, improved statistical methods. In response to a new request, we included a separate analysis of owner-managed properties.

In 2015, we published the first edition of the publication, containing data sets on 200 buildings. The aim of the second edition of Benchmarking, which was published in 2017 and in which we dared to think big, was to synthesise, summarise and analyse the data gathered on 400 facilities. The numbers, i.e. simply increasing the number of surveyed and analysed properties, are not, of course, of much value in and of themselves; the real aim is to contribute to the advancement of the profession and the development of professional standards through data sets that allow for deeper analyses to be conducted with each passing year, thus providing support - by way of an industry lexicon of sorts - to both professionals and to our customers.

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