Matt Chapman of Atalian Servest tells Sara Bean why attitudes and priorities in FM need to change to avoid a race to the bottom Conversations around the future of facilities management often focus on how the sector needs to build ...
Read More »Deal or no deal
TFM has had mixed reviews in recent years, but it remains a staple part of the FM mix. We bring together an FM integrator, single service supplier, specialist contractor and TFM provider to argue for and against the TFM model ...
Read More »Insourcing vs outsourcing debate: What’s best for business?
The insourcing of FM services is growing in popularity. The report ‘Rebuilding Capacity: The case for insourcing public contracts’ from the University of Liverpool, recommends it for providing service flexibility and the ability to allocate resources where they are needed. ...
Read More »Career Ladder talks to University of Manchester’s Library Space Development Manager
Q: How did you progress through the profession to your current role? Having run businesses in the music sector, I decided to transfer my project management, working with people, event management and marketing experience to the education sector. It was ...
Read More »Career Ladder talks to Signum Facilities Management’s MD
Q: What was you first job in the FM sector? Facilities Manager for Doncaster Primary Care Trust. Q: What made you choose FM as a career? I didn’t! It chose me really. I had been working in the NHS for ...
Read More »The key to the future
As awareness and adoption of BIM slowly spreads, Jon Clark, Sales Manager at FSI, reiterates the benefits of what should be a fundamental FM tool We all hear that BIM (building information modelling) holds the keys to the future of ...
Read More »Career Ladder talks to Pareto’s Francesca Laugier-Davies
Q: What was you first job in the FM sector? I applied for an FM apprenticeship with a charity I was volunteering for at the time. Q: What made you choose FM as a career? I wasn’t exactly clear on ...
Read More »The future is smart for facilities management
Organisational transformation is big business these days as retail, commercial and other sectors recognise that changing and evolving is key to their sustainability. It’s easy to focus on sectors like retail where there is a more obvious shift to new ...
Read More »Uberisation of FM
Could using the latest smart technology to offer an Uber-style response service revolutionise the way the FM industry manages reactive services? Do you agree that service capabilities and costs would be transformed if FM services suppliers completely digitalised their processes ...
Read More »Integrate or Isolate
Blog from Rory Murphy, Commercial Director, VINCI Facilities This year’s RICS/IFMA flagship conference for Facilities Management took the brave step of changing its name from the ‘Strategic FM’ conference to a more inclusively titled ‘Integrated Property Services conference’ undoubtedly raising ...
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