Organized by the Romanian Facility Management Association - ROFMA and #reCONSTRUIM - the interdisciplinary platform for the quality of the built environment, the event focused on networking and exchange of experience between specialists in both fields.

The workshop brought up to date topics on how the design and operation of buildings are key ingredients to a working environment that ensures adaptability for virtual and flexible work, promotes work in heterogeneous teams with members from different generations, cultures and levels of training, facilitates human interactions, allows the incorporation of new technologies and improves the experience and well-being of users. In this context were highlighted the benefits brought by digitization, BIM and CAFM to this area and to all the professionals involved.

Trends in workplace management and new ways of working have profound implications for the fields of architecture and facility management. They determine the need for collaboration, starting from interdisciplinary dialogue, understanding beneficiaries' needs and using technologies. The common goal is to create workplace management solutions that bring benefits to architects, facility managers, customers and end-users.

Event topics
• Facility management and workplace management. Convergence and Trends - Cristian Vasiliu, General Manager of ROFMA
• Wellbeing, architecture and vision of interdisciplinary collaborations - Livia Ivanovici, Cofounder #reCONSTRUIM
• Workplace Management: A Journey from "Cubicles" to "Wellbeing Workplace" - Catalin Tanasescu, Development Manager Archibus Solution Center Romania
• Integrate building and asset lifecycle buildings - Anne Linek, Business Developer Archibus Solution Center Romania
• New Ways of Working (NWOW) Road MAP - Tiberiu Teleanu, Head of Operations Services Division, Real Estate Property Management Division, BCR

The presentations were followed by a Q & A session and a dialogue on interdisciplinary collaboration, then a cocktail - a great excuse for socializing and sharing experiences between architect specialists and facility managers.
The meeting revealed the need for a constructive partnership and the development of a common platform for debates and initiatives addressed both to the beneficiaries of the built environment and to the authorities. (source: ROFMA)