SFP study plan

Define sustainable facility management and distinguish it from conventional FM practice in your own words

Map the three exam domains to your current job responsibilities and flag every gap you cannot yet explain

List the major sustainability frameworks and rating systems and match each to the facility type where it fits best

Build a one-page glossary of at least 25 terms you must be able to define without notes

Draft a business case for a sustainable facility initiative using cost, risk, and non-financial value arguments

Identify stakeholder groups and explain how to align each group's priorities with a sustainability strategy

Explain how sustainability goals cascade from organizational strategy down to facility-level objectives

Compare triple-bottom-line reporting to traditional financial reporting and state when each is appropriate

Trace energy flows through a building and identify the systems that consume the most energy

Calculate a simple energy use intensity figure from given utility data and interpret whether it is high or low

Explain water conservation strategies across fixtures, irrigation, and process uses

Describe commissioning and retro-commissioning and state what each one is meant to catch

Explain the waste hierarchy and apply it to a construction, renovation, and daily-operations scenario

Describe indoor environmental quality factors and how each is measured or verified

Explain sustainable purchasing and how to evaluate a supplier claim you cannot verify

Match common operating metrics to the domain where they belong so you do not confuse domains on exam items

Explain the phases of a sustainable facility project and identify the sustainability decision points in each phase

Describe how to assess an existing facility's sustainability performance and prioritize findings

Outline a change management approach for moving occupants and staff to new operating practices

Distinguish the facility manager's role from the roles of owners, designers, and contractors in a project

Build a simple financial comparison of two options using first cost, operating cost, and simple payback

Describe how to communicate sustainability results to executives versus building occupants

Explain how to set, track, and report on facility sustainability performance indicators

Identify the people and process levers that cause sustainability programs to fail after launch

Re-review only the topics you have already missed at least once, ranked by miss frequency

Answer mixed-domain items and correctly label which domain each item tests before answering

Reconstruct the course frameworks from blank paper without prompts

Close the two largest remaining knowledge gaps by writing short explanations of them from memory

Complete a timed full-length practice session and analyze errors by domain and by cause

Verify recall of every glossary term and framework without notes

Rehearse a consistent strategy for scenario-style items and long-item timing

Reduce your error rate on previously missed items to near zero on a final pass