Facilities Management is often viewed as something that begins when a building is completed. The construction team finishes the project. The keys are handed over. The Facilities Management team takes responsibility. Maintenance requests begin arriving. But by then, many of the decisions that determine the facility's operational performance have already been made.

Modern Facilities Management is not about fixing buildings - it is about ensuring that buildings, infrastructure, and the services they support continue to deliver value throughout their lifecycle.

The Ribbon-Cutting Moment The commissioning ceremony is a milestone worth celebrating. Years of planning, design, procurement, and construction have produced kilometres of new or rehabilitated road - a tangible result that communities and authorities can see and use. But behind the ceremony, a less visible transition is taking place: the point at which responsibility for the asset shifts from the project team to the operations and maintenance organisation. That handover is wh

For many asset owners and facilities teams, IFC models are still perceived as a handover artifact—a snapshot frozen at Practical Completion, archived, and rarely revisited. This mindset significantly underutilises the value of IFC during the Operations stage, where accurate, trusted information delivers the greatest return on investment. As facilities become more data-driven and IWMS platforms mature, IFC models are increasingly repositioned as controlled reference models tha