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From FMT205 and FMT302 to the energy audit in FMT307, the sustainability brief in FMT315 and fire safety in FMT321. We build the document the brief wants, with an assumptions table at the front.
- A report, not an essay. Scope, assumptions, workings, options, a costed recommendation with an owner and a date.
- Name the instrument. Inspection cycles, thresholds and regimes cited with their year, checked against the regulator’s own pages.
- Kept between us. Nothing goes to SUSS or your tutor, and PDPA rules cover every file.
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Which FMT Modules Am I Actually On?
The SUSS degree is the BSc Facilities Management, code FMT-MAJ1: 130 credits, part-time, twelve compulsory major courses, all with an FMT prefix. Events Management is a separate degree you can take as a minor.
Core modules
Building and services
- FMT101 Building Services
- FMT201 Building Technology
- FMT203 Procurement and Contract Management
- FMT205 Fundamentals of Facilities Management
- FMT213 Security Management for the Built Environment
- FMT309 Building Diagnostics
More core modules
Operations, strategy and technology
- FMT302 Operation and Maintenance of Building Services
- FMT306 Strategic Asset, Property and Facilities Management
- FMT313 Building Information Modeling for Facilities Management
- FMT315 Sustainable Buildings
- FMT317 SMART and Emerging Technologies for FM
- FMT321 Fire Safety and Engineering
The Green Mark modules
The Green Mark AP stack
Completing FMT302, FMT307 Energy Management and Audit and FMT315 confers the Building and Construction Authority’s Green Mark Accredited Professional certification. Those three also carry the heaviest regulatory load in the degree.
Electives worth knowing: FMT303 Property Law, FMT307, FMT319 Township Management, FMT320 Building Regulations and Compliance, FMT407 Indoor Environmental Quality, FMT409 Renewable Energy Systems, FMT410 FM Quality Management System and HFS309 Universal Design.
What is the weighting of your TMA against your end-of-course assessment?
SUSS does not publish the split, and we will not invent it. Every course is graded on a continuous assessment component plus an examinable component — an examination, an end-of-course report, an oral presentation or a dissertation. You must pass both. Your course outline carries the split.
Report or essay
What Format Should My FM Assignment Take?
Almost always a report. An FM brief asks for an instrument — an audit, a maintenance regime, a risk assessment, a lifecycle cost model, a continuity plan. It should look like something you could hand a building owner.
The seven-part spine that fits almost every FM brief
- 1Scope and building profile. Use, gross floor area, age, occupancy, systems in place. Two sentences, and every later figure refers back to it.
- 2Assumptions and baseline data. A table at the front, not buried in an appendix. The highest-value habit on this page.
- 3Analysis. The calculation, the condition survey or the hazard assessment, with workings visible.
- 4Options compared. At least two, on the same basis, with the losing option's cost stated rather than dismissed.
- 5Recommendation. Costed, timed, and addressed to a named decision-maker, because a recommendation with no owner is an observation.
- 6Compliance mapping. Each obligation tied to the instrument that creates it, with the threshold and the year.
- 7Appendices. The asset register, the risk matrix, the calculation workings.
The calculations
How Do I Get My Lifecycle Cost Calculation Right?
By discounting. A lifecycle cost is the present value of each cost stream over a stated study period, at a stated discount rate, with residual value handled separately.
| Calculation | What it needs stated | Where marks are lost |
|---|---|---|
| Lifecycle cost / net present value | Discount rate, study period, residual value, each cost stream separately | Undiscounted cash flows totalled; capital and operating cost merged in one column |
| Total cost of ownership | Acquisition, operation, maintenance, downtime and disposal | Disposal and downtime omitted, so it collapses into price plus a maintenance guess |
| Maintenance cost per square metre | Whether the area basis is gross floor area or net lettable area, and the cost scope | Switching basis mid-answer, so the figure cannot be compared to any benchmark |
| Energy use intensity | Kilowatt-hours per square metre per year, with the area basis and the period | No area basis given; a part-year figure compared against a full-year benchmark |
| Space utilisation rate | The observation method and the sample period | A single snapshot reported as a utilisation rate |
| Chiller plant efficiency | Kilowatts per refrigeration ton, and the measurement boundary | A chiller-only figure labelled as plant efficiency, with pumps and cooling tower excluded |
| Retrofit payback | Whether it is simple or discounted payback, and the baseline year | Simple payback presented as investment appraisal, with no discount rate and no baseline |
Why the boundary question decides the chiller mark
Chiller efficiency and chiller plant efficiency are different measurements. Plant efficiency includes the chilled water pumps, condenser water pumps and cooling tower fans; chiller-only efficiency does not. Quote the smaller number as the plant figure and the energy argument rests on a boundary error.
Your assumptions
What Goes in My Assumptions Table?
Every input a marker would otherwise guess at, with its source beside it. A clear assumption can earn method marks even where the marker disagrees with the number. A figure from nowhere earns nothing.
Assumptions — chiller replacement appraisalTable 1
Study period15 years
Basis for study periodExpected asset life
Discount ratestated and justified
Basis for discount rateOwner's cost of capital
Area basisGross floor area
Source of area figureAs-built drawings
Measurement boundaryPlant-wide
Boundary includesChillers, pumps, tower fans
Baseline consumption period12 consecutive months
Residual value at year 15treated separately
Every figure in sections 3 to 5 of the report refers back to this table. Where a value is uncertain, the table says so and the analysis carries a sensitivity test rather than a false precision.
Where to anchor a baseline, rather than invent one
Borrow the convention from the Mandatory Energy Improvement regime: measure against the average energy use intensity of the previous three years. “The mean of the preceding three years” is defensible; “we assumed current consumption” is not.
Where a sensitivity test earns more than precision
If the discount rate is uncertain, run the appraisal at two or three rates. One that holds across the range is strong; one that flips is a finding in itself.
Maintenance strategy
Which Maintenance Strategy Should I Recommend?
Start from the statutory floor, not from theory. Under the Building Maintenance and Strata Management regulations of 2016, most lifts must be maintained to the manufacturer’s recommendations or once a month, whichever is more frequent, and all escalators monthly. Strategy sits above that frequency, never below.
Lift and escalator maintenance
You cannot schedule under the line
“Predictive maintenance to reduce intervention frequency”, written against a lift, recommends something unlawful. Predictive monitoring sits on top of the statutory visits.
The order a full-marks answer uses
- Statutory floor first. Which assets have a frequency set by regulation, and what is it.
- Criticality next. Rank the remaining assets by consequence of failure, not by cost.
- Then allocate. Reactive for low-consequence assets. Preventive for predictable wear. Condition-based where an indicator is measurable. Predictive only where instrumentation and data maturity justify the spend.
- Then cost it. Sensor and analytics cost against avoided downtime, with the avoided downtime quantified.
Why “we recommend predictive maintenance” reads as a guess
Because it usually is one — no criticality analysis, no instrumentation cost, no check that the data exists. Three named critical assets, with the sensor cost stated, scores higher than all of them.
Two more lift facts a compliance section should carry
A permit to operate must come from the Building and Construction Authority before a lift or escalator runs, with an Authorised Examiner’s certificate that the installation is fit. Maintenance must be done by registered service contractors, and both need annual testing by a registered contractor, witnessed by an independent Specialist Professional Engineer.
Risk assessment
How Do I Write a Risk Assessment That Passes?
Hazard identification, then risk evaluation, then risk control. The Workplace Safety and Health risk management regulations put elimination of foreseeable risk first; substitution, engineering control, administrative control and personal protective equipment follow only where elimination is not practicable.
1
Eliminate
Remove the hazard altogether. The Regulations require this to be considered first, so an answer that skips it has skipped the top tier.
2
Substitute
Replace the hazardous process, substance or equipment with a less hazardous one.
3
Engineering control
Guarding, interlocks, local exhaust ventilation, anchor points — controls built into the physical arrangement rather than into behaviour.
4
Administrative control
Permits, safe work procedures, job rotation, training, signage.
5
Personal protective equipment last resort
Where students usually start, which inverts exactly the order the Regulations were written to enforce.
What the table must contain
- Severity and likelihood combined into a risk rating — a list of hazards with no matrix is not a risk assessment.
- The rating before control and the residual rating after, so the control's effect is visible.
- A named responsible person per control, and an implementation date.
- The review date, and the statutory basis for it.
Who owes the duty, and how often it is reviewed
The duty falls on the employer, the self-employed person and the principal — name all three. Review at least every three years, and sooner after any injury or significant change. Keep records three years.
The Workplace Safety and Health 2028 strategies, launched in 2019, target a thirty per cent cut in fatal and major injury rates before 2028 — below one per hundred thousand workers. Cite it as a target, not a current rate.
Which rules apply
Which Singapore Regulation Applies to My Case Building?
On its use, age, height and floor area — and those four tests are the compliance section. Structural inspection runs every five years for non-residential buildings and ten for residential. Facade inspection needs both tests: over thirteen metres tall and over twenty years old, on a seven-year cycle.
| Regime | Trigger or threshold | Cycle | Instrument |
|---|---|---|---|
| Periodic structural inspection | Non-residential, and residential; landed houses and temporary buildings excluded | 5 years / 10 years | Building Control Act 1989; Structural Engineer appointed on notice |
| Periodic facade inspection | Over 13 m tall and over 20 years old; landed houses excluded | 7 years | Periodic inspection regulations 2021, in force 1 January 2022; Competent Person responsible |
| Fire certificate | Public buildings with occupant load over 200; industrial buildings on occupancy, area or height tests; hospitals; some residential over 24 m | 12 months, and 36 months for certificates starting from 1 April 2026 | Fire Safety Act 1993, section 35 |
| Fire safety manager | Public buildings of 9 storeys or more, or 1,000+ occupants, or 5,000 m² or more; hospitals regardless of size | Continuous appointment | Fire safety manager regulations; 2013 notification |
| Risk assessment | Every workplace; duty on employer, self-employed person and principal | Review at least every 3 years; records kept 3 years | WSH risk management regulations |
| Lift and escalator maintenance | All lifts and escalators; permit to operate required first | Monthly for most lifts and all escalators; annual test with independent engineer present | BMSM lift, escalator and building maintenance regulations 2016 |
| Water efficiency management plan | Net water consumption of at least 60,000 m³ in the previous year | Annually by 30 June, for at least three consecutive years | Public Utilities water supply regulations; mandatory since January 2015 |
| Cooling tower registration and testing | All cooling towers, registered with the environment agency | Sampling within the month of submission; results by the 14th of the following month | Registrable aerosol-generating systems regulations and order 2021 |
| Mandatory waste reporting | Hotels over 200 rooms; malls over 4,600 m² net lettable area; larger factories, warehouses and convention centres | Annually by 31 March | Environmental Public Health Act, as amended in 2014 |
| Energy data submission | Gross floor area of 5,000 m² or more, in listed building uses | Annual submission of building information and energy consumption | Building Control Act, environmental sustainability provisions for existing buildings |
The 2026 change worth knowing before you submit
Fire certificate validity is twelve months as standard, and thirty-six months for certificates starting from 1 April 2026. Renewal goes in at least two months before expiry. Older samples still carry the old period.
Two tests that must both be met, and one role that cannot be delegated away
A Competent Person may delegate visual or close-range inspection to a Facade Inspector under direct supervision, but keeps overall responsibility.
Regulations change. Before you submit, confirm the current position on the Building and Construction Authority, Civil Defence Force, Manpower, Public Utilities Board and environment agency sites — and cite the regulator, not this page. This is study support, not legal advice.
Energy rules
What Is the Mandatory Energy Improvement Timeline?
Five dated steps: appoint a qualified professional within ninety days, submit the audit within one year, implement within three years of the plan, hold the performance for a year, then report within three months.
Within 90 days
Engage the qualified professional
A registered Energy Auditor, or a mechanical Professional Engineer registered with the Professional Engineers Board. “An energy consultant” is not a recognised appointment.
Within 1 year
Submit the audit report
The audit is done and an improvement plan built from it. The target is a ten per cent cut against the previous three-year average energy use intensity.
Within 3 years
Implement the measures
Measured from submission of the improvement plan. Your recommendation section lives here, and a costed, sequenced plan beats a list of ideas.
Hold for 1 year
Maintain the improved performance
The regime does not stop at installation. Performance has to last — an argument for maintainability and monitoring.
Within 3 months
Submit the maintenance report
After the holding year. Map your recommendations onto these five steps and the answer is structurally right before it says anything clever.
How does Green Mark 2021 actually score a building?
Energy efficiency is a mandatory prerequisite, not a badge. Above it sit five sustainability sections worth fifteen points each, with a badge at ten or more: health and wellbeing, whole life carbon, resilience, maintainability and intelligence. Certification runs through the Green Mark 2021 series.
Reach for the maintainability section. It is where the scheme scores design for maintainability — the part of sustainability a facilities manager inherits.
The masterplan target, quoted correctly
The Singapore Green Building Masterplan, launched March 2021, set three targets for 2030: eighty per cent of buildings green by gross floor area, eighty per cent of new developments at super low energy standard from 2030, and an eighty per cent improvement in energy efficiency from 2005 levels, for best-in-class buildings.
That last qualifier is usually dropped, and dropping it makes the claim wrong. Progress as at December 2025: sixty-six, thirty-three and seventy-two per cent.
FMT388
What Does the FM Industry Project Expect?
That you frame the problem yourself. FMT388 is a five-credit, one-semester course where selected students work with an academic, instructor or industry practitioner on a research or industrial project and defend a proposal.
Scoping
A question one semester can answer
The commonest failure is scoping it like a consultancy job. Narrow it to one building, one system, one decision. A question you can answer with the data you have beats one you cannot finish.
Access
Data you can get, in writing
Before the proposal is approved, pin down what you will be given: utility bills, the maintenance log, the asset register, the as-built drawings. Data nobody has promised you is a hole in the proposal.
Defence
Able to be questioned
Three questions come up: why this method, how wrong your assumptions would have to be to change the recommendation, and what you would do with more time. Our viva preparation page covers how we work on it.
Where we stop on a project like this
We help you narrow the question, structure the proposal, check the method and review drafts. We will not write a project you then present as your own independent work. If the brief involves fieldwork, that part is yours.
Four ways we help
What Facilities Management Help Can I Get?
Facilities work stalls in four places: which document the brief wants, which regulations the building triggers, getting a calculation onto a defensible basis, and turning analysis into a recommendation. Tell us which one you are in.
Written from scratch
A full report on your brief: assumptions table at the front, workings visible, options compared on one basis, a costed recommendation with an owner and a date, every obligation mapped to its instrument.
Review and rule check
Read as a marker would, for the slips that cost most: undiscounted lifecycle costs, a chiller boundary error, PPE as a first control, predictive maintenance below a statutory frequency.
Calculations and appendices
Lifecycle cost and payback models with a sensitivity test, energy use intensity on a stated area basis, a risk matrix with before and after ratings, and an asset register set out as an appendix.
What we will not do on a facilities brief
We do not disguise machine-written work or help a draft get past a detector. We do not invent a site visit, a meter reading or a maintenance log you did not collect. And we do not publish a regulatory figure we have not checked.
If your module allows AI use with a declaration, we will help you write the declaration accurately. If it does not, that is the end of the conversation.
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Clear pricing
How Much Does Facilities Management Assignment Help Cost?
You pay for the help you need. A scope and compliance map costs less than a full report; a numbers check costs less than a rewrite.
| Per 250 words | 10+ days | 3–5 days | 24 hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scope and compliance map | S$9 | S$12 | S$18 |
| Written from scratchmost students start here | S$26 | S$35 | S$50 |
| Review and rule check | S$12 | S$16 | S$22 |
| Calculations and appendices | S$8 | S$11 | S$15 |
- Your quote is confirmed in writing before anything is charged.
- One price, quoted once. We do not inflate a price and discount it back.
- Lifecycle and cost models are quoted per model once we have seen the brief.
- Every statutory figure is sourced, and that sourcing is inside the rate.
Indicative rates in Singapore dollars, to show how the work is priced. Your own brief, length and deadline decide the quote, and you see it in writing first. Nothing is charged until you confirm the scope, and revisions and refunds follow our terms of work.
What Earns Marks in a Facilities Management Report?
Send the brief and the rubric. We reply with the deliverable it wants, the regulations your building triggers, and a fixed quote.
FAQs
What Do Students Ask About FM Assignments?
Straight answers on module codes, lifecycle costing, maintenance strategy, Singapore regulation and price. More in our full FAQ.
Which facilities management modules does SUSS offer?
The BSc Facilities Management (FMT-MAJ1) is a 130-credit part-time degree. Its twelve compulsory courses are FMT101, FMT201, FMT203, FMT205, FMT213, FMT302, FMT306, FMT309, FMT313, FMT315, FMT317 and FMT321. Electives include FMT303, FMT307, FMT319, FMT320, FMT407, FMT409, FMT410 and HFS309.
Is the SUSS programme called Facilities and Events Management?
No. They are two separate SUSS degrees. Events Management is a recommended minor beside the facilities major. Facilities modules use the FMT prefix, events modules EMT.
Which SUSS modules give you Green Mark Accredited Professional certification?
FMT302, FMT307 Energy Management and Audit, and FMT315 Sustainable Buildings. Completing all three confers the Building and Construction Authority's Green Mark Accredited Professional certification, as stated on the SUSS course pages.
What is the TMA and end-of-course assessment weighting for an FMT module?
SUSS does not publish it, and it varies by course and term. Every course has a continuous assessment component and an examinable component, and you must pass both. Your course outline carries the percentages.
Is a facilities management assignment supposed to be an essay or a report?
Almost always a report. The brief asks for an instrument: an audit, a maintenance regime, a risk assessment, a lifecycle cost model or a continuity plan. Essay prose loses marks before the content is read.
How do I do a lifecycle cost analysis for a building assignment?
Discount each cost stream to present value over a stated study period, at a stated discount rate, and handle residual value separately. Summing undiscounted cash flows is the commonest error in the module.
What goes in the assumptions table?
Every input a marker would otherwise guess at, with its source: study period, discount rate, area basis, measurement boundary, baseline period, escalation and residual value. A figure with no source earns nothing.
What is the difference between chiller efficiency and chiller plant efficiency?
The measurement boundary. Plant efficiency includes the chilled water pumps, condenser water pumps and cooling tower fans. Chiller-only efficiency leaves them out, so it is the smaller number. State the boundary.
Which maintenance strategy should I recommend in a facilities assignment?
Start from the statutory floor, not from theory. Fix the frequencies set by regulation, rank the rest by consequence of failure, then add reactive, preventive, condition-based or predictive cover above that floor and cost each choice.
How often must a lift be maintained in Singapore?
Most lifts must be maintained to the manufacturer's recommendations or once a month, whichever is more frequent, and all escalators monthly, under the Building Maintenance and Strata Management regulations of 2016. Home lifts, vertical platform lifts and stairlifts follow the manufacturer's recommendations or once every three months.
Can I recommend predictive maintenance for a lift?
Not instead of the statutory visits. Regulations fix a minimum frequency for most lifts and all escalators, so using predictive maintenance to intervene less often is unlawful. It can sit on top of the required visits.
How do I write a risk assessment for a facilities management assignment?
Hazard identification, risk evaluation, then risk control, with controls in the statutory order: elimination, substitution, engineering control, administrative control, then personal protective equipment. The table needs severity and likelihood as one rating, before and after control, with an owner and dates.
How often must a risk assessment be reviewed under Singapore law?
At least once every three years under the Workplace Safety and Health risk management regulations, and sooner after any injury or significant change to work practices, machinery, substances or procedures. Keep records three years.
What is the periodic structural inspection cycle in Singapore?
Every five years for non-residential buildings and every ten years for residential, under the Building Control Act. Houses used only for residence and temporary buildings are excluded.
Does periodic facade inspection apply to my case-study building?
Only if both thresholds are met: over thirteen metres tall and over twenty years old. Then it runs on a seven-year cycle under the periodic inspection regulations of 2021, in force from 1 January 2022.
What is the Mandatory Energy Improvement regime and when did it start?
It commenced on 30 September 2025 under the 2024 amendment to the Building Control Act. Buildings of 5,000 square metres or more must cut energy use by ten per cent against their previous three-year average energy use intensity, with an auditor appointed within ninety days and the audit submitted within a year.
Last reviewed 5 October 2026 by the SUSS Assignment Help built environment team.
