MANAGEMENT

Industry Growth: Alpha Mead to Champions FM Bench Marking In Africa.

3INVESTONLINE: The Facility Management Industry in Nigeria is still nascent, though viable. In the past five years, one brand that has come to redefine the principle and practice of Facility Management in Nigeria is Alpha Mead Facility Management Services. Alpha Mead has not only evolved as a cynosure of Facility Management practice in Nigeria; it has attracted a new breed of professionalism into the industry and stamped Nigeria on the global map of Facility Management Services.

Engr. Femi Akintunde is the Managing Director/ Chief Executive Officer of Alpha Mead Facilities. A staunch advocate of due diligence who exudes an infectious passion for building an FM industry that add value to assets and consequently grow the economy. In this interview with Olusesan Ogunyooye of 3Invest Intelligence, Engr. Akintunde shares his thoughts on the FM in 2012, the various recognitions bestowed on Alpha Mead in 2012 as well as his view for the 2013 market. Excerpts.

The Sustainability Agenda: Project Manager’s Remit

Most projects arise from a client’s desire to create a change that leads to an improvement in facilities, functions or even a spatial experience. It is within the Project Managers remit to ensure this drive for facility, functional or experiential improvement does not lead to a degradation of the environment. It also behoves on the Project Manager to ensuring that the development can be easily maintained and serviced by the resources and skill base available within the area.

Most construction professionals with over twenty years experience have seen projects they worked on in the early part of their career, either ‘mothballed’ or demolished. In most cases the buildings remain structurally sound but the services and the finishes have either become obsolete or render the building too expensive to manage and maintain. Sustainability, for me, is about building timeless authenticity in the function, use and experience of a building, so that, in the well worn cliché, it would withstand the test of time!

The Sustainability Agenda: Project Manager’s Remit

Most projects arise from a client’s desire to create a change that leads to an improvement in facilities, functions or even a spatial experience. It is within the Project Managers remit to ensure this drive for facility, functional or experiential improvement does not lead to a degradation of the environment. It also behoves on the Project Manager to ensuring that the development can be easily maintained and serviced by the resources and skill base available within the area.

Most construction professionals with over twenty years experience have seen projects they worked on in the early part of their career, either ‘mothballed’ or demolished. In most cases the buildings remain structurally sound but the services and the finishes have either become obsolete or render the building too expensive to manage and maintain. Sustainability, for me, is about building timeless authenticity in the function, use and experience of a building, so that, in the well worn cliché, it would withstand the test of time!

The Sustainability Agenda: Project Manager’s Remit

Most projects arise from a client’s desire to create a change that leads to an improvement in facilities, functions or even a spatial experience. It is within the Project Managers remit to ensure this drive for facility, functional or experiential improvement does not lead to a degradation of the environment. It also behoves on the Project Manager to ensuring that the development can be easily maintained and serviced by the resources and skill base available within the area.

Most construction professionals with over twenty years experience have seen projects they worked on in the early part of their career, either ‘mothballed’ or demolished. In most cases the buildings remain structurally sound but the services and the finishes have either become obsolete or render the building too expensive to manage and maintain. Sustainability, for me, is about building timeless authenticity in the function, use and experience of a building, so that, in the well worn cliché, it would withstand the test of time!