Area Served

We primarily serve companies in the North Eastern United States, but our consultants are willing to travel and we have a large network of qualified consultants throughout the world through our memberships in the International Facility Management Association and the Institute of Management Consultants.

What Sets Us Apart

FMWW provides practical, objective, and functional recommendations. Teamwork, the pursuit of excellence, and dedication to total quality and the highest professional ethics have helped build our reputation. Our complete understanding of the challenges in all phases of project management, together with our personal attention to client needs has made us an industry leader in project management and facility management consulting.

We offer customized services based on our professional hands-on experience. Our unique combination of business consulting and project management expertise provides our clients with immediate tactical recommendations as well as future facility strategies. We generally save our clients far more than our consulting fee.

Affiliations / Associations

• International Facility Management Association
• Institute of Management Consultants
• Professional Women in Construction

Publications

Contact us for information about our firm in the media and copies of published articles.

• Planning & Managing Interior Projects - Second Edition," by Carol E. Farren, CFM, IFMA Fellow, Published by R.S. Means in September 1999.
  
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Carol E. Farren, CMC, CFM, IFMA Fellow
President

Carol Farren has been the president of FMWW for the past 15 years. The former director of facilities for AOL Time-Warner Inc., she has more than 30 years of experience in interior project management, has directed many high-profile design and relocation projects, and has led the customized teams on numerous facility and administration consulting projects. Ms. Farren is the author of "Planning & Managing Interior Projects - Second Edition" a textbook / reference book. She is a respected instructor and speaker and a frequent contributor to professional publications. She is past president of the Greater New York Chapter of the International Facility Management Association (IFMA). She is President Elect of the Facility Management Consultants Council of IFMA, a Certified Management Consultant (CMC), a Certified Facility Manager (CFM) and an IFMA Fellow. She is a graduate of Cornell University and holds an MBA from New York University's Stern School of Business.

Currently a consulting engineer, Joseph Horowitz, PE has had a diversified facilities career extending over 46 years. In his 36 years with CBS Inc., he filled several Facilities Management positions, including twelve years as Director, Facilities Engineering, where he was responsible for design and construction of major corporate facilities such as offices, computer centers, factories, warehouses and broadcasting facilities. At CBS, Mr. Horowitz developed standard procedures for bidding and contracting and standard contracting forms, most of which are still in use. More recently Mr. Horowitz was retained as a private consultant by CBS’ parent company (former Westinghouse Electric Corp.) to develop standard contract documents for their environmental cleanup projects.

While at CBS, he was involved with leases and real estate acquisitions and disposals: reviewing lease terms, negotiating work letters and making building inspections. Earlier work experience included a stint in Turkey as Chief Engineer (Ankara Area) for The Tumpane Company (where he was responsible for real estate as well as design and construction) and active duty as a U.S. Navy Civil Engineer Corps officer.

Mr. Horowitz is the author of Critical Path Scheduling, a textbook on project planning, and articles on construction, real estate and contracting. He has contributed chapters to Time Saver Standards for Building Types by DeChiara and Callender and Planning and Managing Interior Projects, 2nd edition, by Carol Farren. He is an Associate Professor at Pratt Institute, where he initiated their graduate Facilities Management program. He has also taught short courses and seminars in planning and project management to professional groups and individual companies and is a recognized authority on construction contracting.

Representative papers and articles include “A Strategy for Competitive Bidding”; Checklist Guides Building Survey”; “What is a Facility Manager?”; “A Facility Manager Looks at Office Leases”; and “Choosing and Managing the Construction Team”. In March, 2000, Mr. Horowitz spoke on “How to Avoid Environmental Tangles When Buying, Selling or Leasing Real Estate”.

A licensed professional engineer, Mr. Horowitz holds a Bachelor of Civil Engineering degree from the Cooper Union; an MBA from Baruch College, CUNY; and an MS in Operations Research from the Polytechnic Institute of New York. Other professional designations include: Registered Environmental Manager (REM); Qualified Environmental Professional (QEP) and Certified Professional Environmental Auditor.

In 1999, Mr. Horowitz was advanced to the grade of Fellow in the American Society of Civil Engineers. Other memberships include the National Society of Professional Engineers; International Facility Management Association (IFMA); the Environmental Auditing Roundtable and the National Association of Environmental Professionals. Mr. Horowitz is also a member of Tau Beta Pi and Chi Epsilon, the national engineering honor societies:. He is listed in Who’s Who in Science and Engineering, 2nd Edition. Mr. Horowitz received the 1999 Environmental Awareness Award from the Greater New York Chapter of IFMA.