New Zealand’s facilities managers will celebrate the important role they play in ensuring the collective spaces we live our lives in are safe, healthy, sustainable, productive and fit-for-purpose.
The theme for this year’s World FM Day – ‘Standing Tall Beyond the Pandemic’ – focuses on the vital role facilities managers have been called upon to play over the past year.
“Facilities managers across New Zealand continue to play a vital frontline role in ensuring and enabling the operational health and safety of our workplaces and business environments,” said Gillian Wess, CEO of FMANZ, the association representing facilities management professionals in Aotearoa.
“Today is an opportunity for the FM profession to stand tall and tell the world what the industry has achieved over the past year and continues to deliver.”
The theme of this year’s FM Summit – to be held on 6-7 July in Auckland – reflects the theme of World FM Day.
“‘The Way of the Future’ explores how we can build a new future for FM out of the ‘new normal’ we find ourselves in,” said Wess.
“Along with the myriad challenges and seismic changes that Covid has brought, the global pandemic presents facilities managers with an opportunity to pause, re-evaluate and look at ways to build a better post-pandemic world.”
Embracing this theme, industry leaders at the two-day FM Summit will explore new ways of working, sustainability, future technologies, economics, change management, digital transformation, climate change, how we interact with each other, and the vital role facilities managers can play in the new world we find ourselves in, as custodians of the built environment.
Speakers include Tony Alexander, Independent Economist; Grant Blackwell, Chief Scientist with the Climate Change Commission; Sheridan Broadbent, Director and Business Advisor; Thomas Irvine, Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei’s Chief Operating Officer; Dr Rachel Morrison, Associate Professor at AUT, and many more.
An initiative of Global FM, World FM Day is an opportunity to highlight the contribution of facilities management to business and society.
Facilities management is a US$1.15 trillion global industry, employing more than 2,000,000 professional and industry practitioners worldwide.
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