Community Based FM

This area of the 4FM Blog is set aside for discussion on CbFM – Community Based Facilities Management.  (CbFM is an open source approach and licensed under a Creative Commons 3.0 License Permissions must be obtained from 4FM to use  for commercial applications)

Community based FM (CbFM) is a socially inclusive approach to facilities management, challenging traditional economic facilities management models

Links:

Kieth Alexander and Martin Brown    Original CbFM Article

Others:

Transition Towns – is this CbFM in practice to address sustainability?

A Transition Initiative is a community that is unleashing its own latent collective genius to look Peak Oil and Climate Change squarely in the eye and to discover and implement ways to address this BIG question:

“for all those aspects of life that this community needs in order to sustain

itself and thrive, how do we significantly increase resilience (to mitigate

the effects of Peak Oil) and drastically reduce carbon emissions (to

mitigate the effects of Climate Change)?”