Higher Diploma in Facility Management

Practitioners in the industry suggest that there could be a market demand for a Practicing Facility Management course. There are very few PEIs that offer this type of course, and a qualification in this area would help the learner to progress in his career despite the competitive field and challenging job market. This course would help learners to understand the component of Facilities Management practices and assist the learner improve the knowledge and skill to adopt in facilities management and daily coordination of work activities in the best interest of the organization.

This course equips students with the fundamental knowledge and skills drawn from facilities operational work that include coordination with the owner and third party outsource to provide the maintenance programs like air-conditioners, lifts, lighting, plumbing and energy management, BMS (Building Management System), maintenance of M&E systems building, and also carry out electrical installation, and monitoring & conducting energy audits. To maintain the stability and prevent sick building syndrome occurring in buildings, this course provides the future learners to meet market needs for technically-trained personnel with good knowledge and skills in this area of operations and will be ideal for students who wish to enhance their career prospects in this field.

Diploma in Practicing Facility Management course is designed to educate students with the essential engineering and management knowledge that is applied in the building service engineering and facilities management sector. This course equipped the students with the basic understanding of the fundamental principles involved in building engineering maintenance and facility management that form the basis of building infrastructure management and maintenance that daily activity from managing the aspect of M & E engineering, building infrastructure like air conditioning system, lift and escalators, lighting, plumbing and finally the building management system console operation monitoring tracking the environmental air quality within the building and monitoring & conducting energy audits. Occasionally, the facility management may manage the A & A project within the building, which the learners exposed the practical knowledge of project management

Part-time: 12 months

Total Contact hours: 288 (No breaks between exams and modules),

Weekend: 1 Sunday (7 hrs class)

Week Schedule: 2 days per week (3.5hrs per day)

Intakes Schedule: Batch 1

Mode of Delivery: Face-to-Face

Assessment Mode: Written Examination / Coursework

Teacher to Student Ratio: 1:25

Registration Fee: $150

Course Fee: $3600

Minimum Age Requirement: 18 years old

• Minimum Grade E in any 3 GCE A Level, including English and 2 Science subjects or equivalent; or
• Matured candidate with 30 years old and 8 years of work experience

Language Proficiency: Minimum a pass in GCE “A” level in English