DATES FOR THE
FM DIARY
17-19 MAY 2022
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24-25 JANUARY 2022
FM Forum
Radisson Hotel, Heathrow, London
www.facilitiesmanagementforum.co.uk
22 FEBRUARY 2022
Workplace Futures Conference
One Great George Street, London, SW1
www.workplace-futures.co.uk
01-02 MARCH 2022
Workplace & Facilities Expo
RDS Dublin, Ireland
www.workplaceandfacilitiesexpo.com
23-24 MARCH 2022
World Workplace Europe
Hybrid Event
https://worldworkplaceeurope.ifma.org/
03-05 MAY 2022
UK Construction Week London
ExCeL, London
https://www.ukconstructionweek.com/
10-13 MAY 2022
Interclean Amsterdam
RAI Amsterdam, The Netherlands
www.intercleanshow.com/amsterdam
11-13 MAY 2022
Health Estates and Facilities
Management Association Forum 2022
Stadium MK, Milton Keynes
https://www.hefmaforum.co.uk/
07-10 JUNE 2022
FOOTPRINT+ A zero carbon future
Brighton
https://www.footprintplus.com/
23 JUNE 2022
The NHS Estates and Facilities
Conference 2022
https://bit.ly/3dl2fKu
DECEMBER/JANUARY 2022 7
Industry APPG needs
to urgently make
progress on key
issues warns BCC
The British Cleaning Council
(BCC) has urgently called on
the All-Party Parliamentary
Group for the Cleaning and
Hygiene Industry to drive
progress on key issues
aff ecting the sector.
Senior fi gures at the BCC
are concerned that there
has been a lapse in actions
to achieve several key aims,
which have now become
even more vital due to the
serious challenges the sector
is facing. The BCC is to hold
an urgent meeting with its
members in December to
discuss a way forward.
The BCC wants the APPG
to back and fully support
its call for Government help
in the face of the severe
staff shortages which have
hit the sector and threaten
the nation’s recovery from
Coronavirus.
Many companies all across
the sector are struggling to
recruit staff . A recent BCC
survey of a number of sector
fi rms, which employ around
30,000 staff in total, found
that there were nearly 2,000
vacancies and some fi rms
were reporting that vacancies
had increased by 252 per
cent and 267 per cent in the
previous six months.
BCC Chairman Jim Melvin
said: “We need the APPG
to help us make progress
in a number of areas
which are now becoming
extremely urgent because
of the huge scale of the
issues the industry faces.
We are concerned that the
actions required are taking
longer than anticipated
at a time when we believe
there is a disconnect with
Government as to the scale of
the priorities. As the industry
will confi rm, we desperately
need help to address the
major staff shortages
aff ecting sector fi rms.
“We are heading into
another winter with COVID
cases rising and yet cleaning
and hygiene operatives still
do not have key worker status
despite their vital role in the
fi ght against the virus.”
RICS RESEARCH REVEALS
SUSTAINABILITY HAS MOVED
UP THE UK FM AGENDA
Around three-quarters of contributors to the Q3 RICS Facilities
Management survey believe that clients consider sustainability to
be either the most important or an important issue in the tendering
process, a rise from 70 per cent in the last quarter. The figures also
show that energy management and health and wellbeing are seen
as the areas of sustainability that have seen the fastest growth in
investment over the past 12 months.
A new report, Sustainability rises up the agenda in the UK Facilities
Management Sector see page 8 assesses the economic responses
and why FMs are at the forefront of changing the way buildings can be
operated sustainably. RICS’ Sustainability Analyst, Kisa Zehra commented:
“The COP26 conference in November highlighted once again that urgent
action is needed to significantly decrease the built environment’s
emissions, for the UK this is an essential milestone towards the Net Zero
by 2050 goal.
“The latest results to the RICS UK Facilities Management Survey shows
some signs of progress. Contributors note that end users are regularly
implementing energy e¦ iciency measures in buildings to reduce
operational carbon emissions. In addition, sustainability is seen as an
important issue by clients in the tendering process.
“That said, it is crucial that momentum around this issue accelerates
significantly for the sector to meet its tough climate obligations. More
ambitious building regulations relating to energy and carbon performance
could be particularly useful, furthermore data, tools and metrics to help
track progress are essential.”
ISS CONTINUES WITH GLOBAL
DIVESTMENT PROGRAMME
ISS has agreed to sell its US-based portfolio of single-service janitorial
and select specialised services contracts to Argenbright Holdings,
a privately held provider of workforce solutions in human capitalintensive
industries headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. The sale is a
part of ISS’s ongoing global divestment programme, announced in
2018 and updated in December 2020, targeting approximately DKK 2
billion in total net proceeds in 2021 and 2022.
Argenbright will take on approximately 3,000 employees from ISS
and will continue the business’s mission of providing single-service
janitorial support to specialised clients across financial, retail,
industrial and government sectors.
All other ISS businesses in the US, including integrated facilities
services (IFS) cleaning and janitorial, aviation, and food service
o¦ erings, will remain una¦ ected by the transaction.
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