Mobility solutions for facility management companies: How to manage parking and EV charging across a building portfolio
Facility management (FM) companies increasingly operate parking, access control and EV charging on behalf of their clients, but usually with a different system at every site.
A mobility operations platform such as Parkl lets an FM company run parking, access, EV charging and billing for its whole building portfolio from one interface. It reduces manual work at reception and security, turns unused parking capacity into revenue, and gives every client transparent reporting.
What does "mobility" mean for a facility management company?
For a facility management company, mobility covers every service that governs how people and vehicles arrive at, use and leave a managed property. That includes:
Parking management: allocating spaces to tenants, employees and visitors, and enforcing the rules.
Access control: opening barriers and gates, often through license plate recognition.
Visitor and guest parking: pre-registering visitors so they can drive in without stopping at reception.
EV charging: operating chargers, managing access and splitting energy costs between tenants.
Billing and reporting: invoicing tenants, employees or the public for parking and charging, and reporting usage to the property owner.
Traditionally these were separate contracts and separate systems. Today tenants expect them to work as a single, app-based experience, and property owners expect the FM company to deliver it.
Why is e-mobility becoming a core FM service?
EU regulation now requires EV charging in existing buildings. Under the revised Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD), existing non-residential buildings with more than 20 parking spaces must have at least one charging point per ten spaces, or pre-cabling for at least half of their spaces, from 1 January 2027. New and majorly renovated office buildings face stricter ratios, and installed charge points must support smart charging. Someone has to operate this infrastructure, and in most portfolios that is the FM company. (Source: EPBD recast, Directive (EU) 2024/1275; national implementation may differ.)
Hybrid work has made parking demand uneven. According to CBRE's 2025 European Office Occupier Sentiment Survey, average weekly office utilisation is 46%, while peak-day utilisation reaches 71%. Buildings are half-empty on average but short of space midweek, which makes fixed, assigned parking inefficient.
EV adoption is accelerating in the CEE region. In Hungary, 31 475 green licence plates were issued in 2025 alone, compared with around 60 000 over the previous nine years (Villanyautósok, based on official data).
Owners want monetisation and data. Empty parking spaces in the evening and at weekends are unused assets, and owners expect site-level usage and revenue reporting.
What problems do FM companies face with parking and EV charging?
The typical pain points of an FM company managing multiple properties:
How does a mobility operations platform solve this?
A mobility operations platform is software that brings parking, access control, EV charging, payment and reporting into one system. It works across multiple sites and multiple user groups. For an FM company, the key point is that the platform sits above the existing hardware at each property rather than replacing it.
In practice, with Parkl an FM company can:
Manage all sites from one dashboard, with separate rules for each building and each tenant.
Automate entry with license plate recognition, so employees and pre-registered visitors drive in without a card or ticket.
Run shared, bookable parking so spaces are used by whoever needs them on a given day.
Operate EV charging with access rules and automatic cost allocation per tenant, employee or company car.
Open unused capacity to the public outside business hours and generate additional revenue for the owner.
Automate billing for tenants, employees and public users.
Report per site and per client on occupancy, charging and revenue.
Parkl users can also use a roaming network of 300 000+ charging points, which matters for FM clients whose employees drive company EVs outside the office.
What are the benefits for the different stakeholders?
For the FM company: less manual work at reception and security, one tool instead of many, and a new, measurable service to include in its contracts.
For the property owner: higher parking utilisation, additional revenue from unused spaces, EV readiness for ESG reporting, and transparent data.
For tenants and their employees: easy arrival, bookable spaces, charging access and less friction every morning.
How should an FM company introduce a mobility platform?
A practical rollout usually follows these steps:
Audit the portfolio. List the parking systems, barriers, chargers and contracts at each site.
Start with a pilot site. Choose a property where the pain is clear, such as high visitor volume or empty assigned spaces.
Define the rules. Decide who can park where, when, and at what cost, and how EV charging costs are allocated.
Integrate the existing hardware. Connect barriers, cameras and chargers rather than replacing them.
Measure and scale. Compare occupancy, staff time and revenue before and after, then roll out to further sites.
About Parkl
Parkl provide a mobility platform operating in the CEE region in 8 countries. It provides parking management, access control, EV charging and billing for office buildings, companies, fleets and property operators.
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