Facility management market in Spain

Abstract

Facility Management (FM) is becoming nowadays an important subject for worldwide companies. It has been already proved in some enterprises that FM has decisively contributed to an increase of productivity and profits. The main goal of this Thesis is to determine the value added FM provides to companies in Spain. Also important in this study is to investigate which is the FM status quo in Spain, firstly focused on qualitative terms and afterwards, focused on data analysis. Last but not least, the data analysis will not only be centered on FM Spanish results, but also on comparing Spanish status quo with other European countries. The information for this analysis has been collected by means of a standardized survey which covers different areas of the enterprises, but all related to FM issues. The scope of this data collection is the Top 500 companies in Spain (ranking is sales driven), 23 of them participated in this study. The research is based on the Mixed Method Approach and the Mixed Model Research.