Increasing challenges for facility managers in international projects!

Due to the increasing internationalization of the global economy, the demands on facility managers to successfully manage and implement projects across national borders are also increasing!

In addition to sufficient language skills, intercultural skills are becoming increasingly important! For example, in a project to create maintenance and inspection plans for building services engineering in a European portfolio, in addition to the aforementioned skills, sound know-how of the (regional) applicable regulations is also required!

Experience has shown that it may take a lot of discussion to explain to management why a passenger elevator system has to be inspected by an expert every 12 months in Germany, every 18 months in the Netherlands and every 36 months (!) in France. This is without prejudice to the general requirements of DIN-EN 81-20/50 and the local requirements arising from, for example, the building permit and health and safety regulations.

The fact that the aforementioned heterogeneity makes multinational tenders more costly and complex and makes benchmarking across the respective locations more difficult is only one consequence. Further-reaching are the liability consequences for those responsible for management, which must be communicated by the facility manager by means of specialist knowledge, also on the basis of the prevailing corporate culture.

With more than 20 years of international experience from numerous projects, facility manager Peter Schmidt is happy to offer support for your plans! Get in touch: