M 201 : Facilities Management

Learn how to preserve and enhance your association’s property and prepare for emergencies.

This course provides a hands-on approach to help you analyse, evaluate, communicate and plan for property maintenance.

Your community will benefit from your increased understanding of the various types of maintenance—routine, preventive, emergency, corrective and scheduled.

Topics include:

• Evaluating existing maintenance programs and management controls
• Analysing maintenance contracts
• Overseeing maintenance of common areas, using checklists and reports
• Making maintenance requests and recommendations to the board
• Identifying the basic elements of a disaster plan
• Preparing a request for proposal, including bid specifications
• Monitoring fulfilment of a contract
• Interpreting and invoking contract warranties
• Understanding the concept of sustainable lifestyles
• Using a reserve study for ongoing maintenance needs