Key features include:

• Allocation of fixed costs across a range of departments
• Depreciation of furniture and equipment for a department, a floor, a building or a campus
• The management of moves and changes
• Intelligent M&E equipment
• Barcode/etag recording and tracking
• Grouping a project team and all their assets together to be charged against a project
• Area analysis for lease costs
• Production and ongoing updating of an asset register
• Hot desking – tools to manage this effectively and thereby reduce costs
• Ability to model a number of “what ifs” and then to help deploy the best option
• Measurement of the performance of one environment against another
• Advanced room-booking application or a visual interface with 3rd partyapplications
• Location-finder for maintenance or asset management.
• View the estate from a campus, country, continent or world perspective.
  

FM is a core competence of the ActivePlan team and we have focused on ease of implementation so dynamic links to existing applications such as planned maintenance and helpdesk are maintained, easing the task of implementation and ongoing operation considerably.

Each user is delivered a personalised view that reflects their preferences, role and/or security access, improving the clarity and decision-making. Those with appropriate rights are able to move furniture from one room to another in the floor plan and see all related databases and reports updated dynamically. Tracking movement of expensive assets has the potential to reduce the number of vital pieces of equipment purchased – yet ensuring quality of service is not compromised.

Because it is rules-based and can contain the operational requirements of a functional area, the effective performance of a design can be measured and also fed back into the design of future projects to inform the Brief and provide a true means of measuring value.