New guidance has been published aimed at addressing a key knowledge gap around strategic asset management among UK workplace and facilities managers (WFMs). The Institute for Workplace and Facilities Management (IWFM) has partnered with infrastructure specialists Amey to produce a ...

The commercial real estate and investment management firm, has introduced JLL Property Assistant, the artificial intelligence (AI) assistant designed to deliver actionable insights and AI-powered recommendations for real estate owners spanning retail, industrial and office properties, on how property teams ...

Jessica Rauf-Thomas of EMCOR UK explores the huge maintenance backlog in the UK and how a smart asset management strategy is vital in tackling it A £49 billion maintenance backlog. It’s a staggering figure, and yet it’s the reality facing ...

According to a recent survey, by SFG20, the industry standard for building maintenance, 34 per cent of facility maintenance professionals do not update their asset registers or do not know how frequently they are updated. Only nine per cent believed ...

National property experts, Barnsdales, has been appointed by Frasers Group as property and asset manager at Doncaster’s 770,000 sq ft Frenchgate Shopping Centre. Barnsdales will also assume the role of joint letting agents. The retailing giant purchased the centre earlier ...

Service Works Global (SWG) has been recognised in a new report from independent analyst firm Verdantix for its asset and maintenance management capabilities. This is the second consecutive year that SWG has achieved the highest score in this category in ...

Ensuring operational efficiency and preventing unexpected failures is paramount, and understanding preventive maintenance is key. View Eptura’s Importance of preventative maintenance in Asset Management video here, that outlines essential preventive maintenance strategies. The video highlights the 80/20 rule, which suggests ...

Derren McCreadie, Technical Services Director Sodexo UK & Ireland on delivering efficiency and consistency in critical hospital assets With healthcare environments being increasingly complex and diverse, operational effectiveness is not just a goal; it is a necessity. From acute primary ...

Roger Marks, MD of Aeromark explains why total cost to serve and asset uptime are key metrics for profitability Metrics like total cost to serve (TCS); asset uptime; total cost of ownership (TCO) mean time between failures (MTBF) first time ...

Nadeem Ashraf, Head of Systems & Asset Management, JLL Integral UK on a data driven, smart asset management approach Despite the crucial nature of asset management, it remains a much-misunderstood discipline. The most common of these misconceptions is that the ...