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Training trends

Classroom, virtual or blended training? Dale Wardill, Client Manager, International Workplace on the results of a survey on the effects of COVID-19 on training strategy and how L&D has changed in response The pandemic has altered many things in our ...

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Ecolog International marks 20 years by reinforcing FM focus

The integrated services and support solutions global specialist celebrates two decades in business in 2022. While its portfolio encompasses a huge range of capabilities, its facilities management services are among those taking an especially prominent role at the dawn of ...

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With activism and disruptive demonstrations on the increase, security firm offers three key pieces of advice

By Iain Murphy, Director of Major Bids – Kingdom Services Group Businesses around the country are counting the costs from activist groups and their evolving techniques to disrupt national infrastructure and businesses. The threats can be physical – like the ...

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Using digital technology to manage wellbeing in the hybrid workplace

Given the widescale adoption of hybrid working, how FMs manage wellbeing at work can no longer be focused solely on the physical office environment. Given this change in workplace work patterns, how can FMs adapt their approach to safeguard employee ...

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Reinventing efficiency and sustainability with digital retrofitting

By Prabhu Ramachandran, CEO & Co-founder at Facilio Inc In a world that is barreling towards dwindling resources, higher energy costs, unprecedented carbon emissions and global warming, buildings are set to become the largest consumers of power by 2030. Sustainability ...

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The management of smoke vents or AOVs

Conor Logan, Colt’s Technical Director, with a guide to maintaining aov (automatic opening vent) maintenance An ‘AOV’ or ‘Automatic Opening Vent’ is a smoke or fire vent that will open and close automatically when triggered by a control system to ...

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Temperature controlled

With rising energy prices, investing in energy efficiency can provide real savings, ensure superior process performance and real financial outcomes particularly in industrial sites, says Dave Palmer, General Manager for the UK and Ireland at ICS Cool Energy Heating and ...

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Vacant possessions

Arthur Duke, Managing Director, Live-in Guardians offers a practical solution to the challenge of protecting a vacant property In the UK, 750,000 vacant non-residential properties are vandalised annually and a further 9,000 are seriously damaged by fires. With an increasing ...

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Thermal comfort

Richard Tibenham, Building Performance Specialist at IES on keeping workplaces safe and productive in extreme weather It has recently become clear that the UK is somewhat unequipped for maintaining ideal working conditions under extreme hot weather events. There is no ...

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Personal touch

Ronan Harte, Chief Executive Officer, BaxterStorey tells FMJ that the hospitable delivery of catering and food services is key to bringing employees back into the workplace In the September 2022 issue of FMJ we featured a case study on the ...

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