Institute of Workplace and Facilities Management

UK professional association

Institute of Workplace and Facilities Management
Formation	1993 (31 years ago) as BIFM^[1]
Type	Professional association
Purpose	Facilities management
Headquarters	Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom
Membership	17,000+ (at June 2018)^[2]
Affiliations	Construction Industry Council
Website	www.iwfm.org.uk

The Institute of Workplace and Facilities Management (IWFM; formerly the British Institute of Facilities Management, BIFM) is a United Kingdom-based professional association for the facilities management sector.

History

BIFM was formed in 1993^[1] to promote the development of facilities management as a critical, professional and strategic business discipline.^[3] In June 2018, the BIFM had around 17,000 individual members.^[2]

BIFM was a founding member of the Global Facility Management Association (Global FM),^[4] and a full member of the Construction Industry Council.^[5]

In May 2018, the BIFM proposed changing its name to the Institute of Workplace and Facilities Management and attaining chartered body status.^[2]^[6] The name change was implemented in November 2018.^[7]

References

^ ^a ^b "About us". BIFM. Retrieved 8 June 2018.
^ ^a ^b ^c OBeirne, Sarah (31 May 2018). "FM Clinic: Debate on BIFM's proposed rebrand and application for chartered body status". Facilities Management Journal. Retrieved 8 June 2018.
^ Atkin, Brian; Brooks, Adrian (2009). Total Facilities Management (3rd ed.). London: John Wiley & Sons. p. 4. ISBN 9781444316131.
^ https://globalfm.org/home-3/member-organisation/^{[dead link]}
^ "CIC Members". Construction Industry Council. Retrieved 8 June 2018.
^ "Working up a theme". FM World. 4 June 2018. Retrieved 8 June 2018.
^ Obeirne, Sarah (16 November 2018). "BIFM makes big switch to IWFM with a new ten point plan". Facilities Management Journal. Retrieved 29 November 2018.

External links

Official website

Construction industry of the United Kingdom

Construction
Economy of the United Kingdom

Companies

Consultancies
and support
services

Amey
Arcadis
Architecture firms
Arup
Atkins
- Faithful+Gould
Bierrum
Buro Happold
Capita
COWI
Egis
ERM
GHD
Jacobs
Mace
Mitie
Mott MacDonald
Ramboll
Stantec
Sweco
Systra
Tetra Tech
Turner & Townsend
Wood Group
WSP

House
builders

Current	Barratt Bellway Berkeley Bloor Boot CALA Homes Charles Church Countryside Crest Nicholson Gleeson Keepmoat Lendlease McCarthy & Stone Miller Muir Persimmon Redrow Taylor Wimpey Telford Homes Tilia Homes United House Vistry
Defunct	Ashtons Beazer Broseley Bryant Homes Comben Homes George Wimpey Ideal Homes Ilke Homes McLean Homes Stewart Milne Group Taylor Woodrow Westbury William Leech Wilson Bowden

Integrated
construction

Current	Balfour Beatty BAM Construct BAM Nuttall Costain Galliford Try Interserve Keller Kier Laing O'Rourke Lendlease Mace McLaughlin & Harvey Morgan Sindall J. Murphy & Sons Sir Robert McAlpine Robertson Taylor Woodrow Construction Tilbury Douglas VolkerFitzpatrick Wates Willmott Dixon
Defunct	Alfred McAlpine Birse Buckingham Carillion Cleveland Bridge & Engineering Clugston Connaught plc Dawnus HBG (and Higgs and Hill) Holland, Hannen & Cubitts Leonard Fairclough & Son Linford Mowlem Rok Shand Sir Lindsay Parkinson & Company Sir William Arrol & Co. Trollope & Colls

Suppliers

Current	Aggregate Industries Artex Ashtead Breedon Brogan Buildbase Cemex Forterra Heidelberg Materials UK Hope Cement HSS Hire Jewson Kingspan Kingspan Off-Site London Brick Mero-Schmidlin Pilkington RMD Kwikform Saint-Gobain Shepherd SIG Speedy Hire Tarmac Tarmac Building Products Tata Steel Europe Travis Perkins Wolseley
Defunct	Blue Circle Industries Redland RMC Tarmac