Workplace Management

Introductory & advanced

The participants:
• analyze work environments and spatial concepts with regard to space efficiency, ergonomics, communication, and productivity.
• evaluate strategic and operational requirements for modern workplace concepts.
• develop sustainable space and usage concepts, taking organizational, technical, and legal framework conditions into account.
• design work-environment strategies that integrate brand identity, corporate culture, and user needs.
• present and justify their concepts in a way appropriate to the audience, in the form of layouts, reports, or concept papers.

Facility Services 1, Real Estate Development 1

- Fundamentals and objective systems of workplace management
- Analysis of work and communication processes
- Space and area strategies
- Planning and evaluation of modern workplace concepts
- Integration of sustainability, health, ergonomics, and energy efficiency
- Digitalization and sensor technology in workplace management
- Change management and employee participation in transformation processes
- Legal framework conditions

- Redlein, A. (Ed.). (2020). Modern facility and workplace management: Processes, implementation and digitalisation. Springer.
- Sacks, R. (2025). BIM handbook: A guide to building information modeling for owners, designers, engineers, contractors, and facility managers (Fourth edition). Wiley.

Portfolio assessment

German

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Lectures, discussions, exercises, case studies, group work, field trip

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