Overview

The aim of EN 15221-5 is to provide guidance to all stakeholders concerned with Facility Management (FM), especially providers and their clients, on the development and improvement of their processes to support the primary activities. This will support organisational development, innovation and improvement and will form a foundation for the further professional development of FM and its advancement in Europe. Facility Management is defined in EN15221-1:2006, as the "integration of processes within an organisation to maintain and develop the agreed services which support and improve the effectiveness of primary activities". Underlying this definition is a process-based, management systems approach, as defined in the EN ISO 9000 standard series. Further development of European Standards in Facility Management based on EN 15221-1:2006 will therefore rely on a better understanding of the processes involved and the mechanisms for their integration. These processes need to be identified and described, mapped and modelled to produce a framework for Facility Management. This standard lays the foundations for further work in developing Facility Management standards and further develops the processes involved in creating FM agreements as described within EN 15221-1:2006. The guidance provided in this standard establishes the need for the FM processes to start with analysing and having a clear picture of the client organisation and its primary processes as a basis for the development of the FM strategy. All major decisions along the route to final specification of service levels and qualities, choice of delivery model and eventually preparation of the appropriate form of procurement and agreements flow from this basis. This standard has been developed as one of four new standards and adopted an agreed set of principles, underlying the Facility Management approach, to ensure consistency. These principles are incorporated in the basic principles of a process-based management system upon which this standard is founded. The standard aligns to the EN ISO 9000 family of standards for Quality Management Systems and applies specific guidance on the concepts and use of a process-based approach to management systems to the field of Facility Management. The standard also builds on widely accepted management principles, in particular value chain and quality control which underlie process-based management systems. The process approach described in this standard should be widely applicable across the European member countries. In order to do this they must build from the existing model in the previous standard (EN 15221-1:2006), be generic, and should not be too prescriptive, enabling companies and organisations to adapt them to their own processes. Through application of this standard, organisations should be able to understand the importance of facility management processes to their effectiveness and understand the need to assess the maturity of their existing processes. This will provide a basis for developing and improving the facilities management processes through a consistent, process-based management approach. Generic examples are provided in the standard to assist organisations. Facility management processes are integrated at three organisational levels - operational, tactical and strategic. Agreements about the outcomes of these processes need also to be made at these three levels: operational agreements with end-users, tactical agreement with business units and strategic agreement with the senior management group (board, managing directors). It provides guidance to FM organisations on the development and improvement of their processes to support the primary processes. Part 5 also sets out basic principles, describes high-level generic FM processes, lists strategic, tactical and operational processes and provides examples of process workflows. EN 15221-5 is written from a primary processes, demand perspective for an audience of all stakeholders in FM processes.

Document: references other documents

Responsible national committee

NA 041-04-02 AA - Facility Management (Mirror committee CEN/TC 348 and ISO/TC 267)  

Responsible european committee

CEN/TC 348 - Facility Management