TÜV Akademie
Accredited lecturer for professional education seminar series.
- Fundamentals of facility management
- Service provider management in facility management
- Bidding and award of FM services
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Seminars & academy
Knowledge that lands in operations.
Well-founded. Practical. On equal terms.
Seminars at TÜV Akademie, Bayerische Akademie and the university, as well as in-house formats that companies put together individually for their own employees. For further training, professional development and deeper expertise.
Academy & university
Where Alexander Schwab teaches.
Bayerische Akademie
Lecturer for practice-oriented seminar series for specialists and managers.
- Building services
- Contractor coordination
Albstadt-Sigmaringen University
Adjunct lecturer at the university where Alexander Schwab himself studied Facility Management (B.Sc.) and Facility & Process Design (M.Sc.). He teaches several modules for advanced semesters, opening up the practice of facility management to students who already have a solid foundation.
- Several modules for advanced semesters
- Practical transfer from current mandates
- Commitment to the next generation of FM professionals
In-house formats
Your seminar. Built to your plan.
No off-the-shelf program: you combine the building blocks that genuinely move your team forward—from a compact fundamentals seminar to a multi-day deep-dive format.
For further training, professional development and deeper expertise of your staff.
- Dedicated materialsPresentations and case studies developed specifically for in-house formats.
- Expert seminarMethodology, standards and guidelines—delivered in a compact, structured way.
- Topic weightingYou decide which topics are explored in depth and which are only touched upon.
- Practice examplesCase studies tailored precisely to your company, for example to a situation you are actually grappling with right now.
- Hands-on applicationExercises using your own contracts, processes and properties.
- Discussion roundsModerated exchange on the questions your team is actually facing.
- Problem clinicConcrete challenges from your operations—analyzed together, solutions developed.
- Deep diveAdvanced modules for teams who want to go beyond the fundamentals.
- Your acute challengeA concrete challenge from your company becomes seminar content—with a concept and follow-up support.
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Clarify needs
A short conversation on audience, prior knowledge and objectives.
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Build the format
You choose topics and building blocks—we tailor content and duration precisely.
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Deliver & embed
On site or online, with materials and transfer into day-to-day work.
From acute problem to solution
Your challenge becomes the seminar.
Companies can bring an acute problem from their own operations. It becomes a concept that your employees work through together in the seminar—followed by support during implementation.
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Describe the problem
Confidential preliminary discussion of the current situation in your company.
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Develop a concept
Alexander Schwab prepares a solution concept as the basis for the seminar.
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Solve it together
In the seminar your participants work through the concept—practically and with your data.
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Support implementation
On request he supports implementation until the solution holds up in daily work.
Topic areas
What operations teams really need.
Each topic area can be booked individually or freely combined. Depth and focus are tailored to your team’s prior knowledge and responsibilities.
Typical participants: property and building managers, in-house maintenance staff, technical and commercial facility management, procurement, and career changers.
Operator Responsibility and Delegation of Duties
Who is liable when something goes wrong? Be legally organized instead of caught off guard.
- Operator obligations under GEFMA 190 and the key legal foundations
- Effective delegation to internal managers and service providers
- Duties of organization, oversight and supervision
- Lessons from landmark rulings and real incidents
Building Systems Fundamentals
Understand equipment, assess malfunctions and talk to specialist contractors as equals.
- Heating, cooling and HVAC: design, operation, typical failures
- Potable water hygiene: Legionella, stagnation, sampling
- Electrical systems, emergency power, lightning protection and EV charging
- Building automation, elevators, doors and gates
Fire Safety in Operations
Know the protection goals and keep them effective throughout occupancy.
- Reading the fire safety concept and applying it day to day
- Fire separations, firestopping, smoke and heat exhaust
- Fire extinguishers, fire alarm systems and their interplay with elevators
- What the failure of a fire protection system means
Maintenance, Inspection and Testing Obligations
No deadline missed, every inspection on record.
- Clear distinction between maintenance, inspection, repair and testing
- Inspection intervals and types: who inspects what, and when
- Maintenance strategies from reactive to preventive
- Inspection reports, logbooks and records in CAFM
Occupational Safety and Contractor Coordination
Work safely, even when outside contractors are on site.
- Risk assessment and operating instructions
- Contractor policy, site induction and work permits
- Permits for hazardous work
- On-site checks and emergency management
Service Provider Management with SLAs and KPIs
Lead your service providers instead of just hiring them.
- Assessing contractor suitability and qualifications
- Outcome-based scopes of work
- KPIs, walkthroughs, audits and bonus-penalty systems
- Regular meetings, reporting and escalation
Bidding, Award and Contracts
Comparable bids and contracts that hold up in a dispute.
- Bills of quantities that make bids comparable
- Service vs. work contracts: acceptance and warranty under German law
- Contractual penalties, liability and warranty management
- Documenting bid evaluation transparently
FM Fundamentals for Career Changers
A shared foundation for everyone new to facility management.
- Tasks and terminology per GEFMA 100 and DIN 32736
- The real estate life cycle and its impact on costs
- Floor areas per DIN 277, occupancy costs per DIN 18960 and GEFMA 200
- Premises liability, cleaning, security services and energy management
Risk Management and Continuous Improvement
Spot weak points before they get expensive.
- Identifying and assessing risks per GEFMA 192
- Root cause analysis with Ishikawa and SWOT
- Detecting and eliminating waste in FM processes
- Mapping workflows and interfaces clearly
Also available: AFLO FM software training for your team.
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