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Letters to the Editor
Interview: Achieving a more equitable society
Navigating equity: Klisman Murati discusses globalisation and future finance in asset management with Facilities Management Magazine.
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Life Style
One swallow does not make the spring
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Life Style
Persuasion is often more effectual than force
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Life Style
Spieth in danger of missing cut
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Life Style
Hibs and Ross County fans on final
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Life Style
Tip of the day: That man again
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Life Style
Hibs and Ross County fans on final
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Life Style
Xbox boss talks Project Scorpio price
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Life Style
The Future Of Possible
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Life Style
Knowledge is power
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Life Style
After all is said and done, more is said than done
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Tech
Samsung Elec says preorders for Galaxy S7 phones stronger
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Tech
Apple sets March 21 event, Wall Street sees new, smaller iPhone
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Tech
NASA plans to fix Mars spacecraft leak then launch in 2018
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Tech
Senators close to finishing encryption penalties
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Tech
YNAP sees slightly slower sales growth after strong 2015
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Tech
Signs of life for Apple stock as Wall St
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Tech
Bosch looking to smart devices to get ahead in the cloud
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Tech
Former Microsoft CEO Ballmer does about-face on Linux technology
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Business
Lock in now! Stock sell-off sinks mortgage rates
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Business
Why homeowners are leaving billions on the table
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Business
China stock swoon could boost US real estate
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Business
Apartment vacancies rise for first time in 6 years
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Business
Weekly mortgage applications pop on stock sell-off
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Business
Why people are flocking to Oregon
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Business
December home sales rebound? Here is the secret
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Foods
A Refined Seattle Restaurant, Hold the Table Linens
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Foods
At Value-Focused Hotels, the Free Breakfast Gets Bigger
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Foods
Growing vegetables at home, six of the best
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Foods
Ice Cream Maker Free Chocolate
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Foods
6 Ways Drinking Warm Water Can Heal Your Body
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Foods
Cooking with kids – how to get them involved
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Foods
Quinoa new recipes, feta & broad bean salad
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Games
Killing Floor 2 New Sharpshooter Class Detailed
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Games
Nintendo Details Next Miitomo Update
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Games
Here What is in the game $80 Deluxe Edition
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Games
The Game Officially Announced, Watch the Trailer Here
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Games
Play This Game for Free on Steam This Weekend
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Games
There May Be No Consoles in the Future, EA Exec Says
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Games
New Heroes of the Storm Characters Bring Portals
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Travel
Making fruit and veg fun for kids
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Travel
The ultimate guide to herbal teas
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Travel
How to make perfect vanilla cupcakes
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Travel
What We See When We Look at Travel Photography
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Travel
I know it hurts to say goodbye, but it is time for me to fly
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Travel
Fontainebleau A Forgotten Treasure
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Travel
Goa Tourism Appealing Visitors From Across the Globe
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Travel
Getting There is Half the FUN!
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World
One swallow does not make the spring
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World
Persuasion is often more effectual than force
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World
Spieth in danger of missing cut
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World
Hibs and Ross County fans on final
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World
Tip of the day: That man again
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World
Hibs and Ross County fans on final
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World
Xbox boss talks Project Scorpio price
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World
The Future Of Possible
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World
Knowledge is power
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World
After all is said and done, more is said than done
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FM Magazine
International Women in Engineering Day: Interview with Jamie Dunn from Veolia
In advance of International Women in Engineering Day on 23rd June, Jamie Dunn, National Electrical, Control and Instrumentation Engineer (UK) at Veolia, tells Facilities Management Magazine why she got into engineering. How did you get into Engineering? Growing up, I had a keen interest in “how things worked”. As a kid my Dad would take me to motorcycle and car race…
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FM Magazine
UK Housing Recovery at Risk From Soaring Interest Rates
The hit to UK homebuyer confidence from upheavals in the mortgage market is likely to drag on house prices during the second half of 2023 as the pool of available buyers shrinks with some homeowners deciding to sell, leading commentators tell Facilities Management Magazine. According to Bloomberg Intelligence (BI’s) latest UK Housing Pulse analysis, the United Kingdom will experience a…
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FM Magazine
Championing Resilience: Haley-mae Downer
From a handful of GCSEs to a full-time job, Haley-mae defied expectations. No university education, no support network, and the cruel twist of homelessness at 16 didn’t stop Haley-mae from becoming a Business Development Director at Compass Group UK & I. She began her career in the insurance industry, focusing on training for the future. At 19, Haley-mae was hit…
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FM Magazine
Letters: Why Is the Home Secretary Ignoring One of the UK’s Biggest Industries?
British Cleaning Council (BCC) Chairman, Jim Melvin, lambasts Home Secretary Suella Braverman for ignoring challenges facing the cleaning and hygiene sector in a speech on Monday. The cleaning, hygiene and waste industry, which employs 1.47m people and is worth £59bn, has been struggling with severe staff shortages since 2020, when a tightening of immigration rules incorrectly labelled cleaning staff as…
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FM Magazine
Letters: Response to New Collaborative Study Published in the Journal PNAS
Roger Kerr, chief executive of community interest company Organic Farmers and Growers (OF&G), responds to a new study into the effects of pesticides and fertilisers on bird species in the UK. It is a critical time for the survival of the United Kingdom’s rural ecology. Agricultural intensification and continued reliance on harmful pesticides and fertilisers has been devastating for bird…
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FM Magazine
Why Reviewing The O2 Academy Brixton’s Licence isn’t the Best Solution
Kieran Mackie, managing director of security solutions business Amulet, comments on recent lobbying by the Met police for the O2 Brixton Academy’s licence to be revoked after two people were killed in a crush at the venue in December. It has been reported the Met police have submitted an application for review of the Brixton Academy’s premises licence to Lambeth…
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FM Magazine
Letters: EU Attempts to Stabilise the Electricity Market are Little More than ‘Sticking Plaster’
Chris Rason, managing director of Aggreko Energy Services, says new European Union plans to accelerate the adoption of renewables and long-term fixed contracts are short-sighted and ignore the better option of decentrilising power supply. The EU is reforming its internal electricity market to allow greater access to greener energy sources as part of a longer-term strategy to triple renewable adoption…
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FM Magazine
Letters: Putting Down the ‘Sick Dog’ of a UK Boiler Upgrade Scheme
Mike Foster CEO of trade body, the Energy and Utilities Alliance (EUA), calls for the UK’s Boiler Upgrade Scheme (BUS) to end, branding it ‘immoral’ and arguing it was doomed from the start. Following another poor take up of subsidised heat pumps in January and after Parliament was told that any underspend on the scheme cannot be rolled forward to…
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FM Magazine
Roundtable: Issues and Trends in Hotel Development Finance
In a macro-economic context featuring several challenges including political uncertainty, rising interest rates, a surge in development costs and ESG-related pressures, the hospitality industry has shown great resilience with numerous signs of a well-engaged trading recovery. At an industry day hosted by Glion Institute of Higher Education London for its MSc Real Estate, Finance and Hotel Development students, an expert…
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FM Magazine
Letters: Achieving Net Zero with Smart Tech
David Lloyd, General Manager of Connected Energy Performance for Johnson Controls, comments on a recent report by former UK Energy Minister, Chris Skidmore, outlining new opportunities offered by a renewed drive towards net zero. In a major review of the government’s net zero plans, a new report by net-zero tsar Chris Skidmore calls for a serious ‘step change’ in approach. The report,…
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FM Magazine
Fire Destroys Iconic Roof and Damages Sustainable Bus Station
Iain Cox, Chair of the Business Sprinkler Alliance (BSA), comments on a huge fire at a bus station in Slough to the west of London. Firefighters were called to a fire at a bus station in Slough in the early hours of October 29th. The devastating blaze spread from a bus to the station’s roof canopy which was largely destroyed.…
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FM
Why “Whole-Person” Wellbeing is Important in the Workplace
Following World Mental Health on 10th October, Shauna McQueen, Global Wellbeing Lead at ISS, explains why a holistic approach to employee wellness and wellbeing benefits staff as well as businesses. “Overall, mental health has suffered tremendously in the last few years,” says Shauna McQueen, Global Wellbeing Lead at ISS. “We’re still in an uncertain situation, from an economic, climate and…
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FM Magazine
UK Real Estate Sector Reacts to BoE Interest Rates Rise
FM Magazine sounded out Paresh Raja, CEO of Market Financial Solutions (MFS) and Shojun CEO, Jatin Ondhia, on the 50 basis point hike in interest rates announced today by the Bank of England. Paresh Raja, CEO, MFS, says: “The property market is being pulled strongly in two different directions. Today’s interest rate hike is significant, impacting both prospective homebuyers along with…
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Engineering
International Women in Engineering Day 2022: My Career in Engineering
On International Women in Engineering Day, Rocio Roldan Aguayo, CEng MIChemE and Veolia Process Engineer, discusses her route into the profession with FM Magazine. Why/what made you choose a career in engineering? At high school, I was good at STEM subjects and so it made sense to study a related degree. When thinking about what kind of career I wanted…
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FM
A Q&A with Camilla Howard, Chair of Compass Group UK & Ireland’s Armed Forces Covenant Committee
Camilla Howard, who left the RAF in 2015 and joined Compass Group UK & Ireland, explains why the foodservice and facility services provider is supporting serving and former armed forces personnel and their families as a signatory to the United Kingdom’s Armed Forces Covenant. What does being a signatory of the AFC mean to employees and businesses? Being a signatory…
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Securing Cement Production Sustainably
Adding an element of sustainability to security provision at several mining and cement production sites in Uganda is reaping dividends for Lafarge Building Solutions. For 20 years, G4S has secured Hima Cement mines and a cement plant operated by Lafarge in Uganda as part of a vast and complex operation which spans 4 sites and over 473 hectares. The contract…
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FM Magazine
Exhibition Celebrates NHS Staff and Key Workers
20.08.2021, 08:59 Exhibition Celebrates NHS Staff and Key Workers Launching in Birmingham, Gratitude is a spectacular public art installation and tribute to the ongoing courage and dedication of NHS Staff and all key workers during the Covid-19 pandemic. Organised by global public art producer, Wild in Art, the event will be touring four locations. Curator, Dame Zandra Rhodes, has selected 51 pieces by different sculptors…
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Events
Ensuring Hybrid Working Really Works
Thomas Helliwell, Regional Principal, Strategy at workplace creation consultancy Unispace, explains why new expectations of work are driving development of hybrid working models post-Covid-19. The Covid-19 pandemic saw businesses of all shapes and sizes plunged into uncharted territory as lockdown restrictions forced millions of employees to work from home on a permanent basis. This intensified a fundamental shift to…
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Energy Management
On the Road to a Low-carbon Future
Bernard Magee, Director of eMobility Infrastructure at Siemens, considers the challenges associated with installing infrastructure to support electrically powered public road transport in the United Kingdom. Road transport, which includes buses, is a significant contributor to air pollution, resulting in poor air quality. Public Health England (PHE) says air pollution is the biggest environmental threat to health with between 28,000…
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FM Magazine
Is Mentoring Key to Real Gender Parity in CRE?
Lauren Hetherington, Associate Director for Healthcare Capital Markets at JLL, explains how mentoring schemes can help bridge a widely reported gender disparity within the corporate real estate sector. In commercial real estate, we’re still suffering from a huge gender divide that seems to be widening rather than narrowing. In fact, according to research by membership organisation Commercial Real Estate Women…
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Leveraging PropTech to Safeguard the Future of the Office
Steven Fox, MRI Software’s director for occupier solutions, explains how facilities managers are using PropTech to reimagining office spaces in the post-Covid-19 environment. After a year of uncertainty and lockdowns, many governments have cautiously mapped out paths to lifting restrictions. In the United Kingdom, the continued rollout of coronavirus vaccines which have now been administered to over half of…
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Energy Management
Securing a Sustainable Future with Hydrogen
George Adams, Director of Energy and Engineering for SPIE UK, presents the case for green hydrogen in the UK energy mix. The future of sustainability in the UK is critical to showing the way forward with others across the globe and demonstrate that 2050 is too late. The truth is, there is no single solution. One thing to be sure…
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Canada
Saving Trillions on Building Operating Costs
Sanjeevv Bhatia, CEO of IoT and AI based building automation solutions provider Netix Global, explains how Building Management Systems can optimise operational expenditure from day one. Building management systems (BMS) and building automation systems (BAS) are the backbone of a real-estate portfolio’s lifecycle. Often cited as a critical enabler of optimal performance, automation capabilities keep assets across a…
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Contracts
Reducing Building Carbon Footprints with Automation
Burkhard Dallosch, managing director of global real estate portfolio operator Deka Immobilien, explains why an intelligent building partnership with MeteoViva is delivering above expected carbon reductions. In 2019, Deka Immobilien announced a three-year programme to install MeteoViva Climate technology in at least 100 properties forming part of its global portfolio. FM Magazine asked Deka Immobilien managing director, Burkhard Dallosch, for an early assessment…
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What Women Really Want
Sophie Morris, Head of Customer Success at construction management automation startup Buildots, discusses the importance of workplace inclusivity and equality. International Women’s Day is an important occasion for celebrating women’s achievements. For Sophie Morris, however, it is also an opportunity to raise awarness of the need for greater advocation of the need for equality. Q: How long have you worked…
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FM Magazine
What Women in Construction Really Want
Sophie Morris, Head of Customer Success at construction tech company Buildots, says International Women’s Day provides a timely reminder of the continuing need to address gender imbalance within the UK’s construction sector. A civil engineer with UK and international construction site management experience, Sophie Morris works for Buildots, an award-winning construction tech startup and developer of an AI-based platform that…
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47th Edition of CIFF Guangzhou
09.02.2021, 07:23 47th Edition of CIFF Guangzhou CIFF, the world’s largest furniture exhibition and FM Magazine partner event, will welcome an estimated 300,000 visitors in Guangzhou from March 18th to 21st and 28th to 30th. Organised under the theme, “Design Trend, Global Trade, Full Supply Chain”, the 47th Edition of the event will host over 4,000 exhibitors on a…
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Energy Management
LEEDing the Green Revolution
Shannon Bergstrom, LEED Green Associate and TRUE zero waste system advisor, explains why facility managers are the key leaders of the green revolution. Now that we have entered what is considered crunch time in the global fight against climate change, the push for sustainability has really picked up speed. It is now a prominent demand from consumers and is becoming…
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Blog
Blended Work Practices and Post-COVID-19 Workplaces
Matt Blaydon, building consultancy specialist with commercial property consultancy Matthews and Goodman LLP, finds parallels between employers’ responses to the 1918 Spanish Flu and changes which are being introduced in workplaces to contain the coronavirus pandemic. Threat-proofing the workplace isn’t new. Over the last five years, we have helped our clients to protect their teams from potential terrorist attacks…
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Why the Death of the Office is Greatly Exaggerated
Dan Zakai, co-founder and CEO of Mindspace, explains why the Covid-19 pandemic will serve as a catalyst for a long-overdue rebirth of brick-and-mortar offices. The new coronavirus pandemic has been notable for the clamour from some quarters for a migration to homeworking. Declarations along the lines of “we’ll all be working from home forever”; “hybrid workplaces are the way to…
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Reopening with Total Confidence
Franck Racapé, Vice President, EMEA, Philips Professional Display Solutions, discusses the launch of the company’s new PeopleCount queue management and social distancing solution for retailers, pubs and restaurants with FM Magazine. Philips Professional Display Solutions has an illustrious history of technological innovation that includes the first ever videowall launched in 1984. Originally established as a subsidiary of Koninklijke Philips N.V., the business has operated under…
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FM Magazine
Chilling Out
Adam Wells, a Solutions Engineer with Pfannenberg USA, explains why liquid cooling solutions are often used when welding electrical enclosures. Electrical enclosures need cooling units in order to enhance performance and prevent failure. The acceptable operating temperature for most electrical devices exceeds 40 °C (104 °F). Devices often placed in cooling enclosures include variable frequency drives (VFDs), servo drives, programmable…
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Planning for the Future of Data Centers
Tim Connor, Principal at Chicago and London based Sheehan Nagle Hartray Architects (SNHA), addresses the facilities management requirements of hyperscale data centers. The pace of development in technology is already blindingly fast, and it is only going to increase. For some time now, computers and the information technologies that use them have doubled their capabilities every 12 to 18 months.…