TEFMA

TEFMA will be recognised as the pre-eminent body which promotes and supports excellence in facilities management in the Australasian tertiary education sector". Our members have responsibility for planning, capital works, design and construction, maintenance, cleaning and landscape services, environmental management, lifts, energy management, engineering services, heating, ventilation and air-conditioning, lighting, safety, training, hazardous materials management, and financial planning for infrastructure. Their responsibility for campus services includes Security (both physical and personal), and depending on the institution, may include timetabling, mail, transport, stores, catering, and printing services. All these activities take place under an umbrella of compliance with disabilities, heritage and environmental legislation, and workplace health and safety requirements. Why is TEFMA an important market? TEFMA members are the key decision makers representing a multimillion-dollar market for products and services. In Australasia, the tertiary education sector has assets with a replacement value exceeding $22 billion and spends over $500 million annually on maintenance and operations. The sector also spends about a billion dollars annually on new construction and refurbishments. Put into perspective, the facilities expenditures totals 15 percent of the entire tertiary education institutional budget. TEFMA members value their Association, and consider it to be an important resource, as demonstrated by our long-standing membership renewal rate of 100 percent of universities and polytechnics in Australia and New Zealand. Details of the range of activities and services provided by TEFMA to its members through its Education and Information Services Committees are provided elsewhere on this website.