Whether investing in CAFM for the first time or thinking about changing vendors, it’s important to select the right system for your needs as a mistake can be costly. Our panel of experts advise on the factors involved in a ...
Read More »Our duty of care
The 2020 Workplace Futures Conference focused on wellness and our industry’s responsibilities towards the wellbeing of our people and planet “FM is all about people,” said i-FM’s MD David Emmanuel in his introduction to the Workplace Futures conference, which took ...
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Blog from Rory Murphy, Commercial Director, VINCI Facilities Carbon Neutral, Carbon Offsetting, Net zero, rewilding, green roofs, wellbeing, single use plastic: the list of things to be aware of, to cut, to manage and recycle could be seen as bewildering. ...
Read More »Career Ladder talks to Geoff Grateley, former operations director, Intu Retail Services Ltd
Q: How did you progress through the profession to your recent role? I have always had a fascination with buildings, their architecture and how they work. I moved into FM and operations on leaving Manchester University with a town & ...
Read More »Blowing hot and cold
Giles Korner, Head of Smart Buildings at engineering consultancy HDR | Hurley Palmer Flatt, explains how the latest technologies can improve environmental conditions for building occupants The design of buildings is becoming more focused on the wellbeing of occupants, creating ...
Read More »Changing times
Even as we enter the third decade of this century, facilities management remains a male-dominated profession. Recent research from i-FM revealed that half of FM businesses in the UK have no female representation at all at board level, while a ...
Read More »Eastwood Park releases April 2020-March 2021 training calendar
Eastwood Park’s new training calendar for April 2020-March 2021 has been published this month, with details of its specialist engineering and estates and facilities management courses. Following a busy 2019 celebrating 50 years of training delivery, 2020 looks to be ...
Read More »Direct action
The Direct Line Group property team partnered with Ascot Services and Mainstay Group to deliver an award-winning FM service across the DLG estate. We find out how the unusual three-way model was developed The Direct Line Group (DLG) property team ...
Read More »Career Ladder talks to Jemma Millward, FM at EMCOR Group (UK) plc
Q: How did you progress through the profession to your current role? I fell into FM – my very first role was as a temp on an FM helpdesk in Plymouth (Interserve MoD account). I quickly realised that getting plumbers, ...
Read More »FM trends: A wrap up of 2019 and a peak into 2020
Just some of the predicted trends in FM for 2019 were; evolution in the way contracts were outsourced and managed, a greater emphasis on health and wellbeing, the impact of the coworking revolution, coping with the challenges caused by Brexit ...
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