Facilities Management Principles Application Training

Learning Outcomes

• Apply facilities management principles to plan and coordinate building maintenance and service delivery.
• Analyze facility performance data to identify areas for improvement and implement corrective actions.
• Evaluate compliance with health, safety, and environmental regulations in facility operations.
• Design a facilities management plan that integrates space management, security, and sustainability.
• Implement cost-effective strategies for energy management and resource utilisation.
• Demonstrate effective communication and stakeholder management in facilities projects.

Target Audience

Facilities managers, property managers, maintenance supervisors, and any professionals responsible for the management of physical assets and building services within their organisation.

Prerequisites

None — open enrollment. However, learners should have basic numeracy and literacy skills at NQF Level 4 or equivalent.

Course Outline

Practicals

Overview

Practical sessions are designed to reinforce theoretical concepts through hands-on application. Learners will conduct space audits, develop maintenance plans, draft SLAs, and perform integrated facility assessments, ensuring they can apply FM principles in real-world scenarios.

Practical Activities

• Space Audit and Allocation Exercise — Learners conduct a mock space audit of a floor plan, calculate utilisation rates, and propose an optimised layout. (4h)
• Maintenance Plan Development — Using a case study facility, learners create a preventive maintenance schedule for critical assets, including work orders and resource allocation. (4h)
• Service Level Agreement (SLA) Drafting — In groups, learners draft an SLA for a cleaning or security service, including scope, KPIs, and penalty clauses. (4h)
• Integrated Facilities Assessment — Learners conduct a mock integrated assessment of a facility, covering space, maintenance, services, and sustainability, and produce a summary report. (4h)

Summatives

Each delegate is assessed continuously throughout the course via daily exercises, scored practical assignments, and a final summative test at the end.

Practical Assignments — 30%

Practical assignments are observed and scored against a rubric during the practical sessions. Each delegate's practical mark is averaged into a single 100% score and contributes 30% to the final total.

Daily Exercises — 20%

Every training day ends with a multiple-choice exercise scored out of 100%. The scores from each daily exercise are averaged across the duration of the course to produce a Daily Average mark, which contributes 20% to the final total.

Final Test — 50%

On the last day a final summative test is written. It is a multiple-choice paper with multiple-answer questions: each question may have more than one correct option, and a single wrong selection on a question marks the entire question wrong — no partial credit. The final test is scored out of 100% and contributes 50% to the overall mark.

Final Total

Component	Out of	Weight
Practical Assignments (rubric-scored)	100%	30%
Daily Average (multiple choice)	100%	20%
Final Test (multi-answer multiple choice)	100%	50%
Final Total	—	100%

All marks are recorded on the AATICD LMS and visible to each learner under their account.

Certificate

How it works

• Certificates are auto-generated on the AATICD LMS as soon as the marks pass the 50% threshold.
• Each certificate is a branded PDF with the delegate's name, the course title, the unit standard ID, NQF level, credits, and the date of issue.
• You can download or print your certificate from your LMS dashboard at any time after issue — there's no reissue fee and no expiry date.
• If you scored under 50% you can sit the final test again at the next scheduled session at no extra cost.

Where to find it

Sign in to the LMS, open your dashboard, and your certificates appear under My Certificates. Each entry has a View / Download button and a print option.

Training Discounts

Group discounts apply automatically — the more delegates you enrol, the greater the saving. Discounts are calculated at 3% per 5 delegates, scaling up to 40% off for 100+ delegates.

Delegates	Discount
5	3% off
10	6% off
15	9% off
20	12% off
25	15% off
30	18% off
50	30% off
75	35% off
100	40% off

3% discount per 5 delegates, up to 40% off for 100+ delegates. Contact us for a custom group quote.