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Special RepoRt

“Our company offers advisory commissioning of the new system
and implementation services that and the incremental cost of having
have unlocked energy savings of quality people was offset by more
nearly ₹25 crores over the life cycle than seven times on account of
of our customers’ facilities. These energy saving, thereby exceeding
interventions can save customers the goal of keeping cost flat.
15-25% of their spends on energy, We were also able to deploy
relative to pre-existing baselines”,
calculated Ramrakhiani. an IoT-based system, not only
for cleaning but also for patient
management, which helped
Cost optimisation improve patient experience and
In an interesting turn of events, care productivity.”
facility managers are helping
organisations reduce their facility Safe work environment
management costs. Mechanisation,
automation and digitisation of The pandemic has indelibly
cleaning processes offer the benefit upgraded the role of a facility
of reducing FM headcount; only manager, from business support
FM has the expertise to advise to business continuity enabler. We use real-time
the client on the right solutions, Important issues like indoor air measurement and
convince clients to adopt them, quality, which were important even verification to monitor a
and then implement them on the before the pandemic but were kept
ground. out of sight and out of mind, need range of topics, from work
Ramrakhiani shared an example: to be addressed at the outset, before package conformance to
“The question was around a facility can begin functioning. labour compliance, energy
balancing manpower and its From cleaning to hygiene, visual
associated costs with the need to inspection to cleaning validation – performance index, and
keep facility costs flat at a total the demands of FM have shot up. water neutrality. Our data
level. So, we did an Investment “Facility users have become management systems
Grade Audit at the healthcare increasingly aware of issues like
facility and captured ways by cross contamination, and the coupled with advances in
which they could reduce their role of the facility manager has AI/ML can unlock real-time
energy intensity on the demand side transformed from just being a
by retrofitting their HVAC & Hot service provider to a provider of operating savings to the
Water Systems. a safe working environment”, tune of 6-8% even without
We did the entire design, concluded Ankit Jain, Director, Jan- the need for investments,
supply, installation, testing and Pro India.
modifications, or changes.
Tarun Ramrakhiani

Co-creating software

The chasm between facility
managers and property
management software developers
is being bridged by FM service
providers, who translate the
requirements of the former into
use-cases for which the latter can
develop solutions. Moving beyond
off-the-shelf solutions, FM is now
involved in the creation of solutions
from the get-go. CIJ

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