Your Partner for Personal and Customer-specific Advice

As your strategic partner with many years of experience and an academic background, we provide you with advice on all matters around real estate management. Together, we analyse your processes and develop suggestions for improvement. In this role, we do not act as teachers. Instead, as moderators, we find the best possible solution together with you and your team.

CAFM Consulting

Combined with the experience and findings from 20 years of research, the experience of our executives in corporate real estate management, property management and facility management forms the basis of our consultation. We have consulted clients around a variety of projects in the public sector, for the church, in the industrial sector and the classic property sector.

Everything but Standard

Setting up a corporate real estate management system, ensuring compliance with operator responsibilities & duties, merging offices in the public sector or digitalising property-related process – these are only a few of the bespoke, client-specific consultancy projects we have advised on in recent years.

To us, they all have one thing in common: the search for sustainable solutions for the respective client.

Our Services – your Contact

For many companies, their real estate portfolio is the hardware they leverage in order to successfully market their products. Successful corporate real estate management (CREM) makes this hardware available as a service for supporting the primary processes. In an environment characterised by the transformation of the world of work, decarbonisation and digitalisation, companies must continuously adjust their offering and require new concepts. We support you in analysing and adjusting your CREM organisation and developing future-proof strategies for your portfolio and  facility management together, including the associated digitalisation.

We create bespoke operation concepts for you to enable you to concentrate on your core process and ensure that your properties are operated in compliance with the law. Upon request, we would be pleased to support the concepts with custom processes, guidelines, recommendations for action and training sessions.

We are convinced that the digitalisation of real estate management processes is the only way to meet present and future challenges in the real estate industry. In this spirit, we support you on the way to digitalisation. Smart building, the internet of things (IoT) and sensors –  the technical options are growing and hardware costs are falling. Future regulations like the Smart Readiness Indicator (SRI) of the EU address this trend with the aim of leveraging the great potential of property portfolio management. Benefit from our experience in academic research when developing your own digitalisation strategy.

Dipl.-Ing. Jan Zak

CEO

T +49 721 61 90 65 30
M +49 178 66 00 35 6
jan.zak@ikl-gmbh.de

Related Services

CAFM consultation     Maintenance budgeting       Acquisition of technical building data    Operator responsibilities & duties and operation concepts

Our Organisational and Process Consulting Team

Ing. Gunar Krause, M.Sc.

Lecturer at Berlin School of Economics and Law
Lecturer at Berliner Hochschule für Technik

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dipl.-Wirt.-Ing. Kunibert Lennerts

Managing partner

Janine Schmidt, M.Sc.

BIM professional

Dipl.-Ing. Jan Zak

CEO
Lecturer at Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences
DGNB senior auditor
Member of the DGNB Technical Committee

Selected Project References

Functional consulting for a new medical centre

Arlesheim Clinic

Consultation with clinic management for planning the new building, functional consultancy, incl. employee workshops, and FM consultation also including employee workshops.

Training for employees and tradespeople

Allianz

Concept development, organisation, preparation and implementation of training events on EDP, organisational and process-related topics for employees and contractual partners (Germany-wide).

Reserve coverage and special-purpose projects

Allianz

Consultation and personnel support for purchasing in various special-purpose projects, plus cooperation in the operative teams (Germany-wide).

IFM/TFM process optimisation

Together with colleagues from the Institute of Technology and Management in Construction at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, we are researching the optimisation of processes in infrastructural and technical facility management by digitalising and automating individual process steps.

Setting up a corporate real estate management organisation

Food retailer

Setting up the organisational structure of a CREM for a food retailer with 1,120 markets, logistic and own production facilities

Freiburg Archdiocese

Analysis of operator responsibilities & duties for the student living quarters of the archdiocese

Karlsruhe Municipal Utilities

Analysis of the fulfilment of operator responsibilities & duties

Medical products, operator responsibilities & duties

Fresenius Kidney Care

Development of an operation concept to monitor compliance with the obligations from the German medical device operator ordinance. Implementation of the concept and inventory of medical devices, as well as training employees at the 60 centres in Germany.