Elmo Fernando receives facilities management charter

The Facilities Management Faculty of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (UK) has awarded the chartered designation to W B Elmo F J Fernando recently.

As DGM Projects, Overseas Realty Ceylon PLC Elmo is in charge of the Havelock City Project - a mega mixed development project of the country.

He is a Fellow of the Institute of Engineers Australia, Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS-UK), Institute of Quantity Surveyors (SL), American Society of Civil Engineers and is a corporate member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators UK.

He has served in the International and Asia Pacific Faculty Boards of RICS in Facilities Management representing Asia from 2001 to 2009 and is an external Examiner for the BSc (Hons) Degree Courses in Quantity Surveying and Facilities Management, University of Moratuwa.

His facilities management career began with the World Trade Centre building in 1996. He promotes the fast growing discipline that covers total management of services that support the core business of an organisation. It is a wide field with a diverse range of specialisations and responsibilities entailing budgeting/benchmarking, building maintenance, planning, relocation, commercial management, contract management, financial services, health/fire/safety, computer aided facilities, life cycle costing/occupancy cost analysis, outsourcing, performance management, risk management, services, statistical analysis of workplace data and strategic advice/planning.