Integrated Facilities Management

GBI-FM’s Integrated Facilities Management approach uses Digital Business Intelligence Metrics to ensure the best Maintenance and Repair Operations (MRO) service with a focus on these key areas:

Our Turnkey MRO service offers the following services and benefits:

• Electronic (paperless) processes for work orders
• Improved reporting and monitoring processes
• Integration with existing facilities databases for seamless workflow and enhanced metrics with real-time feedback
• Innovative Agile Methodology allows for zero breakdowns at a lower cost
• Costs for building management is known and fixed

Project Management

Construction projects, like any large-scale projects, need competent managers. In this day and age of information colliding with the physical world, it is very important that today’s project managers are multi-talented in hard skills, soft skills, and data skills.

In health care, construction projects can be incredibly complex. Infection Protection and Control, phased work, medical infrastructure, and the need to keep facilities operating while construction work goes in are all issues that can, and do, arise.

GBI-FM follows industry standards for Project Management, including best practices and guidelines from the Ontario Association of Architects, Professional Engineers of Ontario, and the Canadian Construction Documents Committee.

Every project under GBI-FM receives specific care and attention. However, certain processes are followed regardless of the scale or scope of a project, including:

• Agile approach to Project Management
• Full costing of projects, including contingency allotments
• Client status updates at 30%, 60% and 90% milestones to ensure control and compliance
• Project schedule and Work Plan
• Quality Control Plan
• Health & Safety Plan
• Measurement of project success

Agile Project Management

Agile has traditionally been used for IT projects. However, at GBI, we have successfully implemented this methodology in construction project management. Using best practices from Agile, we have been able to cut down phases to smaller “sprints” that allow us to increase flexibility within the project and perform many tasks in parallel. By applying our customized agile methods, we are able to save 30% on project costs and timing! At GBI, our approach to solutions is always evolving and we are constantly experimenting to improve our approach.

FMX Business Intelligence

GBI-FM’s most innovative value added service is our ability to collect, analyze, and improve on any facility operations data.

User-friendly on-line Business Intelligence (BI) dashboards are developed to showcase all data at a glance, or drill down to specific areas with only a few clicks. The dashboards can be customized for any number of staff.

• Online dashboards (below) provide real-time updates with detailed metrics
• automated your FM operations in short order
• improve your customer satisfaction
• BI metrics enable data-driven leadership decisions
• GBI uses the same system for Key Performance Indicators and our own BI