Author : Stephen Binder
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Companies
ISBN 13 : 9780070052895
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (528 download)
Book Synopsis Corporate Facility Planning by : Stephen Binder
Download or read book Corporate Facility Planning written by Stephen Binder and published by McGraw-Hill Companies. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The product of the author's 20 years of facility management experience with one of America's largest corporations, this book provides complete, detailed, and integrated treatment of every aspect of the facilities manager's job. No other book on this increasingly important topic written by a practitioners within a corporation has ever been available before. With this Guide, you are taken logically through the life cycle of a project, following the roles, practices, and realities of the facility manager from the basics of space planning inventory, standardization to the day-to-day applications of purchasing, contract management, and crisis control. At each step you'll find successfully tested methods that are cost effective and time saving. And there's more: Special sections cover the politics of facilities management and how to deal with corporate senior management, outside consultants, and the personnel occupying corporate office space; Views of other professionals-architects, space planners, interior designers, and more-are given in their own words to bring noncorporate expertise to bear on each topic; Detailed analyses of computer-aided design and drafting systems are featured together with a functional evaluation matrix for selecting the best computer system to meet company needs. Perhaps you want to establish a corporate space inventory-in these pages you'll find a 22-step outline of "how-to" advice with graphic illustrations of key steps. Maybe your corporation has just relocated and you've been asked to survey employee responses-here you'll find a complete, 7-tables long post-occupancy evaluation form. Do you need to cut costs? This book offers time-tested space and furniture-expense-saving methods and tips on how to make national/corporate purchasing agreements...Whatever your facility planning question or problem [title] is the answer."--[P] 4 of cover.