BS EN 15221-4:2011

BS EN 15221-4:2011 Facility management. Taxonomy, classification and structures in facility management

FM covers and integrates a very broad scope of processes, products / services, activities and facilities. The approach of BS EN 15221-4 is to consider the added value provided to the primary activities by adopting a product perspective as recognised by the primary processes or core business in the organisation. BS EN 15221-4 therefore introduces the concept of standardised (classified) facility products.

The scope of BS EN 15221-4 is to provide taxonomy for FM which includes:

• Relevant interrelationships of elements and their structures in FM
• Definitions of terms and contents to standardise facility products which provide a basis for cross border trade, data management, cost allocation and benchmarking
• A high level classification and hierarchical coding structure for the standardised facility products
• Expanding the basic FM model given in EN 15221-1 by adding a time scale in the form of the qualitycycle called PDCA (Plan, Do, Check, Act)
• A linkage to existing cost and facilities structures
• Alignment with the primary activities requirements.

Additional benefits from BS EN 15221-4 are:

• Introducing a client rather than a specifically asset oriented view
• Harmonisation of different existing national structures (e.g. building cost codes) on an upper level relevant for the organisation and its primary activities.

Contents for BS EN 15221-4 includes:

Scope

Normative references

Terms and definitions

General taxonomy of Facility Management related terms and definition

Financial and administrative terms and definitions

Definitions of main standardised facility products

Derivation of Facility Products and Relationship Model

General

The generic structures needed to describe a facility product

Facility Management relationship model

Processes

General

Facility Management Processes

Classification of facility products

The quality cycle in the FM relationship model

Client perspective and national customs

Description of the Standardised Facility Products

This European Standard is one of the series BS EN 15221 "Facility Management" which consists of the following parts:

• Part 1: Terms and definitions
• Part 2: Guidance on how to prepare Facility Management agreements
• Part 3: Guidance on quality in Facility Management
• Part 4: Taxonomy, Classification and Structures in Facility Management
• Part 5: Guidance on Facility Management processes
• Part 6: Area and Space Measurement in Facility Management
• Part 7: Performance Benchmarking