Sustainability Facility Professional

Going for High Performance? Aim Higher! Sustainability Facility Professional® (SFP®)

Optimum “sustainability” for savvy CEOs and facility professionals goes beyond certifying the premises with the preferred building rating system. It is a commitment to improving the facility’s impact on the environment, productivity and people — not just today, but tomorrow too.

Become an SFP and play a key leadership role in creating, managing and operating sustainable facilities. The SFP is the credential for FMs seeking a higher level of sustainable performance. Go farther, faster. Engage all your company’s FM assets to truly maximize triple bottom line results.

Leoron is now offering the IFMA SFP Credential Program™ course to provide FM professionals, related industry professionals, and product and service providers with a complete picture of how SFPs can improve the sustainability of facilities in all eight major categories of sustainable facility management as defined by IFMA: energy, water, materials and resources, workplace management, indoor environmental quality, quality of services, waste and site impact. The SFP program is made up of three focus areas designed to equip professionals to integrate sustainability efforts with the organization’s values and strategies, present a business case for a sustainability initiative, evaluate initiatives from a financial point of view, and track and report accomplishment

The credential is an assessmentbased certificate program. Completion demonstrates an individual’s proven comprehension of environmental stewardship and sustainability in facility management. The SFP Credential Program is made up of three focus areas of learning: Strategy and Alignment for Sustainable Facility Management This section summarizes key concepts related to sustainable facility management from the organizational level and illustrates linkages and actions facility managers must take into consideration in order to make the business case for sustainability in their own facilities. The contents of this section focus on the following topics:

• Organizational strategies
• Developing a strategy
• Sustainability considerations
• Establishing goals and initiatives
• Communications and reporting