DATES FOR THE
FM DIARY
08-10 SEPTEMBER 2020
www.facilitiesshow.com
06-08 MAY 2020
World Workplace Europe Virtual Event
https://worldworkplaceeurope.ifma.org/
16 JUNE 2020
RICS Strategic Facility Management
Conference
etc venues St Paul’s, London
www.rics.org/strategicfm/
06-07 JULY 2020
Facilities Management Forum
Hilton Deansgate, Manchester
www.facilitiesmanagementforum.co.uk
14-16 JULY 2020
Clerkenwell Design Week
EC1 London - various locations
www.clerkenwelldesignweek.com
08-09 SEPTEMBER 2020
Hotel Facilities Management Expo
ExCeL, London
www.hfmexpo.co.uk
15-16 SEPTEMBER 2020
The Manchester Cleaning Show
Event City, Manchester
https://cleaningshow.co.uk/manchester/
16-17 SEPTEMBER 2020
RWM Exhibition
NEC Birmingham
www.rwmexhibition.com
06-08 OCTOBER 2020
UK Construction Week
NEC Birmingham
www.ukconstructionweek.com
09-10 NOVEMBER 2020
Smart Home Expo
NEC Birmingham
www.smarthometechlive.co.uk
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APRIL 2020 7
BESA OFFERS GUIDANCE
ON ESSENTIAL BUILDING
MAINTENANCE AND SHUTDOWN
PROCEDURES DURING THE
CORONAVIRUS CRISIS
In response to the coronavirus crisis which has created
“unprecedented challenges” for building owners and
maintainers, the Building Engineering Services Association
(BESA) has released a detailed guidance on how buildings
can be managed and maintained e ectively during the
coming weeks and months.
With thousands of people now working from home or
prevented from travelling, many commercial buildings are
moving into shutdown mode. This according to BESA “has
huge implications for building services equipment with
decisions that would normally have been planned over many
months now having to be taken within days”.
It added: “Owners, landlords and tenants will still need to
maintain their buildings for security purposes; to achieve
statutory compliance; and to protect the fabric and critical
systems as well as satisfying any insurance implications.”
Thousands of UK buildings are already maintained in line
with the industry’s standard SFG20, which was created by BESA
and is continually updated to reflect changing technical and
regulatory requirements. Its planned maintenance strategies
would continue to keep buildings safe and compliant
through this period, but some organisations according to the
association “may decide to ‘mothball’ their building or at least
reduce their maintenance regime to a low level”.
However, BESA says that “full closure and shutdown is a
long-term action that would make it di icult to get the building
up and running again quickly when the crisis recedes”.
Elements of the building may also be needed to support sta
working from home, such as server rooms, and this brings
SFG20’s sister standard, the recently updated and relaunched
SFG30 ‘Mothballing and Reactivation’ into play.
SFG30 takes users through a step-by-step process for
maintaining critical services during this low occupancy period
ready for rapid and full reactivation when business returns
to normal. This includes key elements such as keeping water
systems safe and healthy (in line with the Health & Safety
Executive’s L8 rules for legionella control); both active and
passive fire protection systems; safe handling of refrigerant
gases; electrical and gas service safety checks and ventilation
hygiene. It also explains how to maintain security systems and
li s if they are still in service among many other factors.
BESA has decided to make SFG30 guidance free of charge
to members until further notice and has reduced the price for
everyone else by 50 per cent.
For more information go to: www.sfg20.co.uk
GLOBAL RECYCLING
On Global Recycling Day (18 March)
the fi rst snapshot of the fi ndings from
one of the largest ever commercially
funded quantitative studies into
business recycling and waste
management across Europe was
published by Rubbermaid Commercial
Products (RCP) EMEA.
This ground-breaking research is the
cornerstone of the brand’s innovative
new Love Recycling initiative – which
will continue to report throughout
2020.
key fi ndings from the research to
date are:
• Nearly three-quarters (73 per cent)
of businesses across Europe feel that
their recycling eff orts are not always
successful.
• Over two-thirds of European
businesses say poor or non-existent
processes or facilities impact how
much they recycle. Over 25 per
cent admit this problem is very or
extremely infl uential in holding back
their recycling eff orts.
• Europe-wide 90 per cent of
businesses feel the government needs
to do more to encourage commercial
recycling.
• A third of companies in Europe feel a
lack of government support infl uences
their ability to recycle more. Of this
group 25 per cent feel it is extremely
infl uential.
• Sixty-four per cent of European
businesses worry how much the cost
of recycling more could impact their
bottom line.
• This concern about costs is greater
in France and Germany where it is
an extremely infl uential brake on
doing more for over 10 per cent of
businesses.
• Amongst other barriers, one-inthree
businesses blames low levels of
staff training as a barrier to greater
recycling success. This is felt most
strongly in Germany, where 39 per
cent of businesses see this as an issue.
• But it’s not all bad news – with 82
per cent of businesses feeling that
recycling will become an area of
greater focus for them in the next few
years
• And 83 per cent of them plan to
spend more on recycling solutions in
the future.
The RCP ‘Love Recycling’ initiative
was launched at the beginning of
2020. Promoted via a large-scale
social media campaign the programme
sampled over 800 businesses across
Europe.
The report, called ‘The Changing
Face of Commercial Recycling in
Europe’ is now available as a free
download from loverecycling.com.
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