Research Topics

Digitalisation and digital transformation are the key words of today. Digitalisation impacts real estate and facility management in two main areas: Due to changes of the core business (new ways of working) the demand for infrastructure and services changes. Digitalisation also has a big impact on the facility service (FS) provision: the application of new technologies, for example, Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML) allow control over the complexity of FM processes and services in a more effective way.

Our research includes:

To cover these topics in our research agenda, we concentrate on Workplace management and digital transformation of real estate and facility management.

• Value Added by FM 
• Status Quo and International Trends within FM – what the demand sides asks for what the supply side delivers
• Digital transformation

  • Service Provision of the Future - IoT and its new possibilities
  • Enterprise Risk Management and Internal Controll System (ICS)
  • Change Management, Processes and ICT Support within FM 
  • Integrated Facility Services – Optimisation of the Service Provision

• New Ways of Working and Workplace Management – not only to enable but to empower the human being
• CSR and Sustainability
• Municipal FM – Linking the strategy of a municipality with the zoning but also the organization structure to enable smart cities 
• Outsourcing