Iain Shorthose, Director of Customer & Workplace Experience at Mitie explains why the results of a customer survey into client’s workplace requirements and strategies during 2020 will help FM providers and their clients meet their goals in 2021 Prior to ...
Read More »Legionella: Risks during and after lockdown
Many workplaces have laid dormant for weeks as the Coronavirus has taken hold of the country. This has introduced new challenges, such as the management of legionella Legionnaires’ disease is a type of pneumonia, which can cause serious respiratory illness ...
Read More »Clearing the air
Until the majority of the population has been vaccinated it is critical that workplaces maintain good levels of ventilation to help reduce the risk of airborne transmission says Hywel Davies, Technical Director of the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers ...
Read More »From the front: At your service
In the first of our new series which celebrates the contribution made by FMs working at the service front, we hear from Michiel Hageman of Bartlett Mitchell who runs foodservice, hospitality and events for central London based law firm Hogan ...
Read More »Digital players
We asked a cross-section of FM suppliers for their views on the digitalisation of facilities management and the role played by data analytics in measuring the quality of service levels in the future Despite being a smaller player in the ...
Read More »The return to work: Preparing for facilities management in the age of COVID-19
By Craig Greenhalgh, Research Analyst at Comparesoft There is no doubt that the outbreak of COVID-19 has changed the way we do things. From managing health and safety to how we interact with each other. In a short space of ...
Read More »Career Ladder talks to Inna Faizulina, FM at Mitie Group plc
Q: What first attracted you to working in FM, did you have much awareness of the profession? There is a lot of discussion around FM not being a profession of choice. I can absolutely relate to this as when I ...
Read More »Engineered for success
Between 20–30 per cent of all UK engineers are employed in FM, but the UK faces an engineering skills shortage. Sara Searle, Head of HR & Payroll and Julie Connell HR Generalist at Liebherr, explain how a long running National ...
Read More »Life saving training
Providing defibrillators in workplaces and public places can save lives says Millie McDonagh of defibshop, which is why it’s important that people are trained to use them correctly Millions of people live with heart and circulatory diseases, with around 7.4 ...
Read More »Cleaning and hygiene
Ensuring that a building, site or location is kept clean is not only a legal requirement, but it can have a positive impact on visitors to the organisation. And in the current COVID-19 pandemic, it is crucial that businesses are ...
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