Course Details

Facility management 1

Academic Year 2025/26

NUA022 course is part of 1 study plan

NPC-EVB Summer Semester 1st year

Introduction to Facility Management (FM).
Spaces in FM ... types, measure, manage.
Parameters and quality control in FM.

Credits

5 credits

Language of instruction

Czech

Semester

summer

Course Guarantor

Institute

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit and examination

Entry Knowledge

Basic knowledge in Civil Engineering. Basic knowledge in Project Management and economics.

Basic Literature

ŠTRUP, Ondřej. Základy facility managementu. Praha: Professional Publishing, 2014. ISBN 978-80-7431-143-7. (cs)
VYSKOČIL, Vlastimil K. Facility management: procesy a řízení podpůrných činností. Praha: Professional Publishing, 2009. ISBN 9788086946979. (cs)
PAYANT, Richard P. a David G. COTTS. The facility management handbook. Fourth editon. New York: American Management Association, 2014. ISBN 978-081-4432-150. (en)

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Introduction to FM.
  • 2. FM bacics – parameters FM support, FM services.
  • 3. FM basics – operative, tactis and strategies in FM.
  • 4. Life Cycle Costs and facility management.
  • 5. Spaces in facility management.
  • 6.–7. Strategies in FM (need → requirement → business case).
  • 8.–9. FM parameters for contracts and SL/SLA.
  • 10. Quality in FM.
  • 11.–12. Technologies in building.
  • 13. FM case studies.

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  1. Semester project assignment.
  2. Initial work on the project: Description of the object, life cycle, division of activities.
  3. Description of activities and choice of method for their provision.
  4. Practical example of measuring areas.
  5. Choice of contract type.
  6. Supplier selection.
  7. Description of service level.
  8. Determination of KPI/CPI.
  9. Legislative requirements for technology maintenance.
  10. Maintenance, repair and revision plan.
  11. Completion of the project.
  12. Presentation preparation and completion.
  13. Submission and presentation of the semester project.