Sustainability Facility Professional (SFP)

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Sustainability Facility Professional (SFP) Course
Introduction:
The demand for professionals in sustainable facility management is steadily increasing, particularly those with advanced certifications and accreditations. One of the most highly sought-after certifications is the Sustainable Facility Professional (SFP) certification. However, individuals with facility management professional certification possess distinct qualities that set them apart.
For businesses seeking leaders to shape and manage their facilities, the Sustainability Facility Professional certification is a valuable asset. It not only demonstrates an individual's comprehensive understanding of crucial facility management competencies but also signifies their ongoing dedication to the profession. The SFP program, a well-established credential, equips facility managers with the ability to make data-driven decisions and implement sustainable best practices.
This course on Sustainability Facility Professional aims to provide participants with a comprehensive understanding, enabling them to enhance efficiency, think strategically, and elevate their company's performance by embracing sustainability principles and demonstrating advanced knowledge in facility operation and management.
Course Objectives:
After successful completion of this course you would be able to:
- Better fundamental understanding of core facility concepts
- Professionals gain more confidence in their job performance
- Continuing education demands keep SFPs attuned to industry best practices
- SFP certification (and other accreditations) stands out on résumés
- SFPs can command a higher salary due to their formalized education
- Certification opens the door to upward mobility, including higher accreditations
Who Should Attend?
The course on sustainable facility professional is implied for:
- One trying to build a career in sustainable facility Management or those that want to learn about the Facility Management profession.
- Anyone with a good work experience in facility management
Course Outlines:
STRATEGY AND ALIGNMENT FOR SUSTAINABLE FACILITY MANAGEMENT
- Define sustainability
- Define the Triple Bottom Line and its intersections.
- Define strategy.
- State how sustainability impacts the strategic planning model.
- State how to align the FM strategy with the overall organization’s strategy.
- Discuss the four phases of developing an enterprise-wide sustainability plan.
- Identify and describe the five principles an SFP should focus on regarding sustainability.
Communicating and Reporting on Sustainability
- List the ten elements of a stronger communications strategy.
- Discuss the basic principles for communicating a sustainability strategy.
- Discuss the six principles of quality reporting.
- State the three primary questions to ask when deciding on a sustainability reporting strategy
- Define change management.
- List the three keys to leading change.
- Describe the five things that successful leaders must do well to manage change.
- List the phases of change.
- Discuss how to monitor and evaluate change.
MANAGING SUSTAINABLE FACILITIES
- Describe the typical elements of a sustainability policy.
- Explain the advantages of creating a topic matrix.
- List the development phases of a sustainability plan.
- Describe the activities in the planning stage.
- Define the concept of the time value of money (TVM).
- Describe the four financial tools most commonly used for decision making
- Define purchasing and procurement and explain the differences between them.
- Describe the steps in the procurement process.
OPERATING SUSTAINABLE FACILITIES
- Describe and illustrate the goals of sustainable energy use.
- Describe general approach to calculating greenhouse gas emissions.
- Describe examples of distributed generation, including combined heat and power systems and on-site energy systems using renewable energy sources.
- Explain the purpose and process of buyback
- Support the need for initiatives aimed at improving a facility’s sustainable use of water resources.
- Summarize key goals in increasing the sustainability of a facility’s water consumption.
Workplace Management
- Explain how workplace management improves facility sustainability from environmental, economic and social perspectives.
- Provide examples of metrics that could be used to measure facility effectiveness in workplace management.
- Define different types of waste and the process of waste management.
- List levels in the waste hierarchy
- Explain how facility services can be affected by organizational commitment to sustainability
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