9.00 - 12:00 Workshop A: The A - Z of Implementing a Property Portfolio Strategy for Your Organisation

Developing and implementing a strategy is the key to transforming your property portfolio into a profitable asset. It requires a detailed analysis of where you are and where you need to be. It also needs a change in your organisational culture and buy-in at all levels to ensure the strategy will be implemented efficiently. This workshop will not only show you how to develop a property portfolio strategy but also how to manage the challenges of implementing it. You will cover:

9.00 Welcome remarks from your facilitator

9.10 Aligning your portfolio with organisational goals and strategies

9.40 How to optimise returns on your portfolio

10.10 How to improve employee productivity through property changes

10.30 Morning tea

11.00 How to measure your performance

11.30 How to manage an outsource provider

11.50 Closing remarks

12.00 Close of Workshop A

About your Facilitator

Michael Cook
Group Executive – Special Projects
INVESTA PROPERTY GROUP

Michael Cook is the Group Executive, Special Projects at Investa Property Group, with responsibility for major new projects and capital transactions. Prior to joining Investa in 2003, Michael was based in Hong Kong working on the $5 Billion International Finance Centre project. Before that Michael worked at AMP as the Manager of Commercial Asset Management, principally concerned with coowned assets such as 600 Bourke Street and Darling Park. He was also previously the Senior Asset Manager at BT Funds Management where he was responsible for the development and asset management of hotels, shopping centres, industrial buildings and office buildings. Michael was involved in the initial hostile takeover of the Grosvenor Trust in 1994 (BT Office Trust/Principal Office Trust) and the subsequent takeover of the Principal Office Trust in 2003.

12.30 - 3:30 Workshop B: Consolidation Management and Office Redesign Workshop

Consolidation has become a fact of business life within Australia, and with employee numbers shifting from small to large, or vice versa, you need to adapt a strategy that will enable you to maxisimise efficiency of your workplace environment.

Your facilitator will cover:

5.00 Welcome remarks from your facilitator

5.10 Implementing a consolidation management plan: Strategies for 3 major cities

5.30 Consolidating your office space; how and where to save

5.45 Forward thinking: observing the impact of the new working environment on the culture of the group

6.00 Improving Employee Performance through Workspace Design Initiatives: Aligning workspace design with corporate objectives with an emphasis on change management and sustainability

6.15 Employing consultation in workspace design: Why it’s important

6.30 Afternoon tea

7.00 Making sure that investment in efficient design deliver the desired objectives

7.15 Knowing what principles to work from when doing a refurbishment

7.40 Developing an effective scope of works to maximise value of relocation

7.50 Reviewing completed project: continuous assessment

8.00 Close of workshop B

About your Facilitator

Richard Hemsworth
Executive Director, Portfolio Management Group
State Property Authority

Richard Hemsworth has had an extensive career in property development and property management, and currently heads the NSW government’s property centralisation reform program. The NSW government leases 1.3 million square metres of office space and owns a further 174 office blocks which form part of the portfolio. Richard has overseen a four fold increase in owned properties and an 11 fold increase in leased properties in the last 12 months, and has recently managed the outsourcing of facilities management contracts for 440 of these properties. As well as working as a senior manager and adviser in Asia and Canada, he has been a director of 11 superannuation trusts. He has just moved on from a three year term on the Ministerial Advisory Committee for the Built Environment - Redfern Waterloo, and is currently an Executive Member of the National Government Property Group. Richard holds graduate degrees in land management, climatology, and education; with post-graduate degrees in business administration and systems computing. He has a strong interest in workplaces-of-the-future and is currently developing models of technological enablement that will allow mobile workforces and significant cost reductions to fit-out and ongoing occupancy costs.

4.00 - 7:00 Workshop C: How to Future Proof your Property Portfolio – Sustainable Facilities in Property Management

This workshop will show you how to ensure your property portfolio is future proofed and adaptable in future environments. It will focus on implementing adaptability and sustainability across your portfolio. In particular, you will look at managing risk and ensuring your future organisational property needs are met. Your facilitator will focus on showcasing best in class strategic facilities management, operational facilities management, project management and building services. In order to achieve sustainability and other such outcomes you must have organisational support as well as models and case studies to show you how to optimise operating costs. This session will also enable you to identify where your organisation is and what are its specific drivers. It will also teach you how to ensure that support and how to put the best strategies into action future proof your portfolio.

The workshop will cover the following areas:

4.00 Welcome remarks from your facilitator

4.10 Achieving organisational support and aligning the portfolio with the company’s vision

4.30 How to implement a sustainable property strategy

5.00 Identifying risk and ensuring accountability

5.30 Afternoon tea

6.00 Managing and leveraging risk in your property portfolio and developing risk minimisation strategies

6.30 Taking steps now to ensure your future accommodation needs are met

7.00 Close of Workshop C

About your Expert Tutor:

Dr David Leifer
Senior Lecturer; Coordinator, Facilities Management Program
UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY

David is a registered architect, an incorporated engineer and a director of a small Facilities Management company. He specialises in FM as a result of a post doctoral interest in the application of computers to running large and complex buildings. It is his belief that the knowledge needed by Facility Managers is similar to that needed by business managers with the added areas of buildings, workplaces and their systems. On top of this, David is the co-ordinator of the university’s Facilities Management program.

Exclusive Benchmarking Opportunity

5.00 - 8:00 Workshop D: How to Measure the Performance of your Property Portfolio and Ensure it contributes to the Bottom Line

Developing High Quality Portfolio Assets and Good Tenant Diversification Managed strategically, property assets can and should support your business operations, be aligned with business strategy and continuously contribute to your bottom line. The objective of this workshop is for you to ensure or exceed calculated yields while looking at increasing your capital value. There is a delicate balance as value improvements may effect the immediate yields. The key to establishing a good investment philosophy at the outset. This interactive workshop will teach you how to apply strategic management techniques for your property portfolio and ensure it continues to add value to your bottom line.

Topics to be covered include:

12.30 Developing intensive management of your portfolio with a focus on cash flow

1.00 Progressing development pipeline and de-risking developments

1.20 Providing over 94% of office buildings as A grade: analysing the benefits

1.45 Spreading the risk: having a diversified tenant sector and geographic location

2.00 Afternoon tea

2.30 De-risking your portfolio and developments through pro-active leasing

3.00 Cutting edge management through integrated model -property, asset and development management

Top strategies for leasing of vacancies:

• overcoming vacancy forecast
• tenant retention through service excellence

3.003.30 Close of workshop D

About Your Facilitator

Jim Jones
Head of Property Management
DEXUS PROPERTY GROUP