Most organizations discover the gaps in their continuity plan during the actual disruption, not before it. The backup generator that hadn't been load-tested in two years, the recovery site nobody had actually visited, the plan that assumed key staff would be reachable when the phone lines were down too. Facilities Business Continuity exists to find those gaps on a Tuesday afternoon during a planned exercise, not during an actual crisis when it's too late to fix them.

That preparation depends on building genuine resilience into critical infrastructure rather than assuming redundancy exists where it doesn't, applying crisis management discipline that holds up when normal decision-making channels break down, and treating disaster recovery as a tested capability rather than a document. The Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity for Facilities and Infrastructure training course, delivered by The British Academy for Training and Development, is built around that uncomfortable but necessary work of finding weaknesses before reality does.

Participants leave able to identify continuity gaps before they become failures, build recovery plans grounded in realistic infrastructure constraints, and lead a facilities response that keeps critical operations running through genuine disruption.

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

• Explain the scope and priorities of Facilities Business Continuity planning.
• Build organizational resilience by identifying and closing infrastructure vulnerabilities.
• Apply crisis management principles to facilities-specific disruption scenarios.
• Develop disaster recovery plans for critical building and infrastructure systems.
• Set realistic recovery time and recovery point objectives for facilities operations.
• Test continuity plans through drills and exercises that reveal real weaknesses.
• Lead facilities teams through disruption with clarity and coordinated decision-making.

Target Group

• Facilities and infrastructure continuity managers
• Business continuity and disaster recovery professionals
• Risk management and resilience officers
• Facilities directors overseeing critical infrastructure
• Emergency preparedness coordinators

Fundamentals of Facilities Business Continuity

• Defining the scope of business continuity within facilities operations
• Why continuity gaps typically surface during real disruptions, not before
• Connecting facilities continuity planning to broader organizational resilience

Building Infrastructure Resilience

• Identifying single points of failure in critical infrastructure
• Designing redundancy into essential building systems
• Prioritizing resilience investments based on operational impact

Crisis Management for Facilities Disruptions

• Applying crisis management principles to facility-specific scenarios
• Maintaining decision-making capability when normal channels fail
• Coordinating facilities response with broader organizational crisis structures

Developing Disaster Recovery Plans

• Identifying critical facilities and infrastructure systems requiring recovery plans
• Setting realistic recovery time and recovery point objectives
• Structuring recovery plans around actual infrastructure constraints

Testing Continuity and Recovery Plans

• Designing drills and exercises that reveal genuine weaknesses
• Load-testing backup systems and recovery infrastructure
• Updating plans based on lessons learned from testing

Leading Facilities Teams Through Disruption

• Making clear decisions during the early, uncertain stages of a disruption
• Communicating effectively with staff, tenants, and leadership
• Coordinating with external responders and recovery service providers

Sustaining Continuity Readiness Over Time

• Keeping continuity plans current as infrastructure and risks evolve
• Building continuity planning into ongoing facilities management practice
• Conducting post-exercise and post-incident reviews to strengthen future readiness