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The student as an engaged stakeholder in facilities management
For many years, considerable research has been conducted to determine what factors drive a student’s decision when choosing a school. Colleges and universities…
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FAQ
How can you benefit from BIM as a Facility Manager?
Facility and property managers are more and more interested in BIM. This is not surprising, BIM models contain a lot of information relevant to them. For example, information about the structure of the building and the properties of each component. However, BIM is also raising many questions. For instance, “How can a BIM help me as a facility or property manager?”
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Blogs
What does the word ‘smart’ actually mean (and why a ‘smart meter’ isn’t ‘smart’)?
Some of my best friends in the profession work in marketing. Before you read any further: I am not just talking about the marketers who work for Planon. Some of them...
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Blogs
Smart travelling / Smart working
As a student I was pretty good at sensing just where to stand on the platform to line up with the train doors. That meant that no matter how…
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Blogs
No bad blood in the workplace with technology from Spectre
Injecting nanotechnology into someone’s blood to track where he/she is physically as well as their mental state; is it really science fiction? In the latest Spectre movie…
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Blogs
Where will you meet in the offices of the future?
Picture the busiest day at work. Everyone is in the office and all the desks and workspaces are occupied. However, for the rest of the week many people are out of the…
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News
Flexibility, mobility and the Internet of Things will dominate the workplace in 2016
Five trends Real Estate and Facilities Managers should adopt in 2016. As businesses plan for workplace changes that will impact them in 2016, five trends seem to be dominating the conversation, according to a research conducted by the software company Planon.
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Blogs
Choices when designing an IWMS
Once you have decided to move forward with an IWMS solution, many more choices await around the corner. The implementation process is a series of choices: What…
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Blogs
Five reasons why you should implement an IWMS
The challenges for international businesses when deciding to carry out an international software implementation are great. These types of projects will encompass multiple sites, multiple countries, and therefore multiple cultures, specific legislations and local business customs add fundamental challenges to the project. Therefore the question “Why did we embark this international implementation project?” will pop up many times during the project.
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Blogs
An Introduction to IWMS
The field of Facilities Management (FM) and Corporate Real Estate Management (CRE) has evolved rapidly over the last two decades. Today’s Facilities Management…
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News
Planon launched a new publication to guide CRE and FM experts in implementing an IWMS
Planon published “A quest for excellence: Guidance for CRE & FM executives implementing a global IWMS.”
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News
Planon Asia forms strategic alliance with IFMA Singapore Chapter as Corporate Sustaining Partner
Planon has joined the International Facility Management Association (IFMA) Singapore Chapter as their first Corporate Sustaining Partner (CSP).
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Client Cases
King's College London
Elizabeth Harris, Business Information Systems Manager: 'The solution allowed us to reduce our maintenance backlog by 50% within three months.'
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Vitens
Bert Bannink, Manager of Information Management: “We started getting positive feedback from the users from the very first day.”
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Veritas
Bart Vandenabeele, Facility Manager: "Thanks to Planon Internal satisfaction has increased dramatically since the implementation.”
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