Audit strategy for improved performability of facilities management

Facilities management (FM) has evolved as a profession and academic interest over recent years. FM covers a wide spectrum of functions with the maintenance and operations task consuming the bulk of FM budget. A brief overview of FM is provided to highlight its increasing importance. This paper describes a systematic approach of conducting facilities audit; SPRINT. This approach enables management to determine services that are in need of attention and improvement. We identify the similarities of SPRINT to a typical Six-Sigma roadmap and provide a plausible integration of SPRINT with other established methodology synergistically into an analogous Six-Sigma roadmap for a holistic approach to ensure improved facilities maintenance management.