Facilities Management-
Advisory Services

Optimising the performance of an asset requires targeted and tailored facilities management interventions at every stage of that asset’s lifecycle.

By providing a comprehensive suite of facilities management advisory services, Dar meets clients at every stage of their asset’s lifecycle – from conducting maintainability and operability reviews and cost modelling in the design stages to orchestrating sustainability and energy management initiatives and charting technology roadmaps, to ensure that our clients have access to best-in-class facilities management innovations.

To deliver comprehensive and exceptional value, Dar’s facilities management advisory services comprise three categories:

Strategic facility management advisory services

To respond to complex operational and market conditions, Dar’s facility management services are structured to support clients at any stage of a facility’s lifecycle.

Facilities Management Design Review

Leveraging extensive design and project management expertise, Dar supports clients and design consultants in crafting  asset designs that are not only more feasible to build but also easier to operate and maintain – ensuring amenability for facilities management services and guaranteeing the asset’s efficiency, resilience, and future-fitness.

Cost modelling

Dar provides lifecycle costing services that cover design, construction, operation, maintenance, and other lifecycle costs such as renovations, upgrades and even eventual decommissioning – facilitating effective budgeting and resource allocation, exerting cost control, enhancing transparency, and facilitating strategic planning.

Facilities management strategy (policies and procedures)

Dar’s facilities management experts set guidelines for data-driven operations and long-term facilities management strategies that ensure sustainability, reliability, and cost-efficiency – while also identifying potential risks and developing policies to mitigate them and ensure continuity of operations.

Asset management

Dar’s facilities managers focus on maximizing the lifespan, performance, and value of physical assets while minimizing costs, risks, and downtime. Through continuous inventory and assessment, we implement preventive and predictive maintenance, ensure compliance and safety, and optimize energy and resource efficiency. We facilitate data-driven decision making.

How we are making an impact

Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University - Riyadh

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Facility management for sustainability and high-building performance

Dar is a global leader in sustainable design and environmental consultancy: combining a vision for sustainability and practical experience to deliver a solution-based approach for the built environment. Our facilities management and sustainability experts specialize in upgrading existing buildings or infrastructure to enhance their overall sustainability and reach decarbonization targets.

Our capabilities cover assessing all project components with the highest impacts and identifying and optimizing sustainability drivers behind each project’s energy use, carbon, waste, and water footprint. Our services under facilities management for sustainability and high-building performance include:

Sustainability and energy management

Our engineers and technical experts use state-of-the-art digital technologies, combined with data-driven decarbonization approaches, to optimize the energy management of built assets – while charting pathways towards decarbonization.

Water management

Dar’s water sustainability specialists monitor and model water use against industry standards, introducing fit-for-purpose technologies and practices to reduce water consumption, enhance water recycling where possible, and safeguard precious water resources.

Indoor environmental quality

Our experts optimise indoor environmental quality through a host of tailored measures, including implementing advanced HVAC systems, ensuring proper ventilation, and maintaining air quality standards to create a healthy and comfortable environment. The process also involves regular monitoring and maintenance of lighting, humidity, temperature, and noise levels to enhance occupant well-being and productivity.

Waste management

Crafting data-driven strategies, Dar’s facilities managers minimise waste generation, enhancing resource recovery and contributing to a more sustainable environment. Our measures can include everything from driving efficient waste segregation and recycling programs, facilitating occupant awareness campaigns, and integrating smart waste management technologies – in order to preserve natural resources and meet sustainability goals.

Sustainability certification and assurance

Dar’s over 500 certified professionals have mastered a wide variety of sustainability certification systems and empower clients to meet and exceed the standards of international rating systems – including LEED for Operation and Maintenance, WELL, BREEAM, Envision, GSAS, Estidama, and other local and international certifications.

How we are making an impact

Dar’s Smart Village Headquarters – Cairo

Learn more how Dar was able to achieve LEED Gold for Operation and Maintenance at its corporate headquarters in Egypt’s smart village.

Facility management – Digital strategy, technology roadmap, and feasibility study services

Adopting a comprehensive digital strategy can transform the built environment by driving operational effectiveness, delivering exceptional user experiences, empowering managers to meet high sustainability standards, and ensuring resilience. Dar’s digital solutions experts use advanced technologies to create smart, responsive environments that optimize building performance for different types of assets. Our tailored digital strategy and technology roadmap advisory services are designed to help clients achieve their outcomes and maximize the value of their assets.

To optimize facilities management, Dar’s digital strategy experts create a customized technology roadmap and strategy for each unique assets. The objective is to implement state-of-the-art technologies and exceptional and innovative digital solutions that enhance operational efficiency, optimize sustainability and energy efficiency, improve occupant experience, and drive overall business value for clients and operators on all the metrics that matter.

Digital strategy and technology roadmap

Our digital strategy and technology roadmap service leverages advanced technologies to create a tailored plan that enhances operational efficiency, improves occupant experience, and drives business value for our client’s built environment. We start by defining a digital vision that aligns with industry transformation trends, identifying new opportunities and business models to enhance our client’s competitive position. Through a competitive advantage assessment, we benchmark our client’s digital strengths and weaknesses against industry standards to identify areas for improvement. We then prioritize digital opportunities based on their strategic alignment and potential impact, conducting a gap analysis to address capability, organizational, and system needs. Finally, we develop a detailed technology roadmap with clear timelines and targets to guide the implementation of your digital initiatives.

Digital solutions feasibility study

Dar offers comprehensive feasibility studies to assess the viability of our clients’ digital initiatives. Our experts evaluate technical, technological, and commercial factors, including volume, weight, lifetime, reliability, development costs, manufacturing costs, and operating costs – to provide our clients with data-driven recommendations.

Smart building certifications and assurance

From stakeholder engagement to final submission, we support our clients in navigating complex smart building certification systems to achieve their specific goals. Our accredited professionals provide tailored guidance throughout the smart building certification process, ensuring that our clients’ projects meet and exceed the standards of SmartScore, WiredScore, and UL Spire.

Integrated enterprise asset management system

Dar’s digital experts provide both consulting and implementation services for comprehensive Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) systems. We optimize asset utilization and streamline resource and work order management by integrating Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS) and Computer-Aided Facilities Management (CAFM) software. This enhances maintenance efficiency, supports proactive scheduling, and integrates with existing Asset Information Models (AIM) to offer a unified view of asset performance and lifecycle management. Additionally, we offer capacity-building and transfer of technology programs to ensure clients’ staff can effectively utilize these systems.

How we are making an impact

150 Holborn - London

Learn more about how the headquarters of our global collaborative leverages digital technology to enhance people experience and optimize operation and maintenance