Lee Jasper, Head of Products and Solutions at Johnson Controls, offers advice on how building managers can use system integration to guarantee the future of their buildings Technological advances over the last few years have armed facility managers with an ...
Read More »Flooding – will your business sink or swim?
The UK is just coming out of the other side of some of the most widespread snowfall ever seen. In many parts of the country, this melting snow may lead to flooding, leaving businesses leaping out of the frying pan ...
Read More »Local enterprise
Sara Bean visits the Wellington Place development in Leeds, where the mix of corporate occupiers and small local businesses is creating a unique community vibe Last year, a report by real estate advisory business GVA Grimley argued that Leeds City Region ...
Read More »Key trends for FM and property in 2018
2017 brought some interesting developments for commercial office occupants; over half of employers now offer some form of flexible working; smart building technology made further inroads and wellbeing looks set to become as important to FM and property management as ...
Read More »Career Ladder talks to the MD & founder of UhUb & UhUb Global
Q: Education I left school with nine O’levels, and a bunch of CSE’s wanting to be an Architect. Alas I was not encouraged to attend college or Uni, and instead found myself homeless as a teenager. Which was an education in ...
Read More »Let’s talk about our wellbeing
Blog from Rory Murphy, Commercial Director, VINCI Facilities Will 2018 finally be the year that Wellbeing and the Health element of Health & Safety breakthrough into the mainstream debate within FM and the built environment. One could argue that there ...
Read More »Powering ahead
Facilities managers can now choose from an array of advanced low-carbon technologies and energy storage solutions, says Robert Styles, business development manager at Norvento UK The built environment is widely recognised as a major source of greenhouse gas emissions, with ...
Read More »Don’t let the levy break
The FM sector has a lot to gain from the Apprenticeship Levy, but a troubled first year hasn’t given the industry confidence it will achieve its ambitious aspirations. It’s not too late though, and a series of simple changes would ...
Read More »Is the future bright?
William Betts, Senior Associate at recruitment consultancy Macdonald & Company, shares his predictions for the FM sector in 2018 FM continues to be an evolving industry that is at the forefront of business transformation. The 2017 RICS & IFMA Raising ...
Read More »Fresh thinking
When Vodafone set out to improve employee wellbeing, a key challenge was to ‘nudge’ people into healthier eating habits. Sara Bean finds out how it’s done Just over three years ago the communications company Vodafone introduced a new employee campaign, ...
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