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The YES factor

Want strong contract deals and supplier relationships? Here’s why collaboration is key. By Julian Fris, Director of FM consultancy Neller Davies, and Kate Vitasek, an American author, educator and lead researcher at the University of Tennessee Once upon a time, ...

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Taking care of business

Research across FM, healthcare, education, manufacturing and food service sectors into attitudes on going back to the workplace by Kimberly-Clark reveals that when it comes to wellbeing, infection control remains the number one priority The Coronavirus pandemic has moved wellbeing, ...

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Core connections

Building connectivity needs to be an essential part of workplace planning in 2021, says John Archer, Solutions Director at Backbone Connect Conversations about the digital workplace tend to focus on the smart building management systems and intelligent sensors that help ...

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Shared goals

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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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