International. The management of cities today is a great challenge, and in the future it will be even more so. In this sense, it is essential to emphasize the role of the Facility Manager and architects in the functional and conceptual design of the cities of the future.
With the double objective of promoting cities based on the technology-health binomial and turning these into inclusive, friendly and empathetic spaces with people, IFMA Spain, the Spanish Association of Facility Management, has held the Conference "The impact of Facility Management in Smart Cities" organized together with the College of Architects of Barcelona.
One of the topics presented and most taken up during the presentations was climate change. Buildings are responsible for more than 35% of CO2 emissions and 40% of energy consumption in Europe, so in this sense, both mobility and building must contribute drastically to the reduction of emissions.
Economic demands, social demands, environmental commitments or technological advances require us to rethink the design and management of cities. In this sense we see how there is an increasing need to install electric vehicle charging points in order to begin to serve this new concept of more environmentally friendly cars and in turn become a new business for cities.
This transformation is determined by the previous design of cities and urban renewal. Facility Managers and architects have the capacity to collaborate in the creation of more sustainable, more cohesive cities that facilitate the sociability of collective spaces, reduce territorial social inequalities and manage to offer citizens all the products and services they may need at any time. To its work, technology is added, which is fundamental to interconnect the different systems that make up the city and directly affect the definition of economically and environmentally sustainable cities.
