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A drain on UK businesses: the true cost of flooding, and how to prepare

Picture the scene: it’s Monday morning. The weather has been awful over the weekend. Your client has arrived on site to find flash flooding has left damage to their building, and the car park is underwater. The company needs to ...

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PPSPower – continued growth through the biggest challenges

PPSPower is a trusted provider of back-up power solutions for businesses and organisations in a wide range of industry sectors operating throughout the UK. Any modern building may suffer a loss of mains power due to downed lines, malfunctions at ...

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Customer communication: The key to appointment success

At the best of times, waiting for a repair visit is unpleasant for customers. But now, the normal discomfort around service appointments is compounded by health and safety fears. This can lead to no-access visits, increased call centre contacts, and ...

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Servicing moveable walls in schools

The management of the UK’s education estate facilities has never been more important. Responding to this, partitioning expert Style has recently undertaken planned maintenance work, as part of a 3-year service agreement, in a cluster of Scottish schools, quickly rectifying ...

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Fire Sprinkler Maintenance Post Lockdown – 5 Important things to consider

As we approach the thought of a release from lockdown it’s important to consider what may have changed in the dormant buildings whilst we have been away. Whilst the Alpine Service Team have remained 100% operational across the UK some ...

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Continuity of service in uncertain times

The COVID-19 pandemic has posed many challenges for the facilities management sector. Not only have managers been required to continuously adapt their working practices, but the past year has also seen the role change to become more prominent and even ...

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Hobart service division’s support ‘making a big difference’ in UK hospitals

Hobart Service are continuing to go above and beyond to support our NHS, and the ongoing handwork and dedication from the Service team has not gone unnoticed. Amid a third lockdown and at a time where UK hospitals are busier ...

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Why you should ‘go green’ with your generator maintenance

For facilities managers in any industry with a need for back-up power, the importance of generator maintenance cannot be underestimated. Downtime can be costly, and in many cases, mission critical. According to national statistics, it has been estimated that a ...

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Will your back-up generators work in the event of a power outage?

Clearly there are big challenges facing all sectors today. Ensuring continuity of power is of critical importance at this challenging time. Gary Hickey, Specialist Fuel Divisions Director at Adler and Allan, explains the issues of microbial contamination in back-up generator ...

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Engineers on the go

Jason O’Neill, National Maintenance Operations Manager for Greggs, explains how the food-on-the-go retailer has created a state-of-the-art, technology-led, shop maintenance service with impressive results I joined Greggs 20 years ago as a shop maintenance engineer. Having worked through various roles ...

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