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Design destination

Madeleine Ford presents a preview of Clerkenwell Design Week 2025: the UK’s leading design festival taking place this May in a range of venues throughout London’s architecture and interior design hub The award winning Clerkenwell Design Week is back from ...

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Clearing the backlog

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 ...

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Smarter storage

Graeme Matthews, Sales Director at Bisley offers advice on storage solutions designed to meet the needs of both the hybrid workforce and the dynamic workplace As workplaces continue to embrace hybrid working models, the demand for flexible and efficient office ...

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Intelligence panel

FMJ partnered with MRI in a recent roundtable which brought a group of thought leaders from both FM client and services backgrounds together under Chatham House rules to discuss how innovations in AI-based software can be harnessed to deliver intelligent ...

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Leading the change

Iain Franklin, Managing Director, Transformation at JLL, explains why taking the lead from how the airline and hotel industries operate could have a transformative effect on the ways facilities management services are delivered With the adoption of hybrid working patterns, ...

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Augmented Collective Intelligence: A New approach for workplace health and safety

By Matthew Winterburn, Global Senior Vice-President Health, Safety and Environment and Business Improvement and Growth Support at Sodexo Every year, 2.93 million workers around the world lose their lives due to work-related factors and an additional 374 million suffer non-fatal ...

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Careers in cleaning

Last month the British Cleaning Council (BCC) launched a UK Cleaning Career Development Zone, which says its Chair Delia Cannings aims to help address the lack of educational structure for staff progression in the sector The cleaning, hygiene and waste ...

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Recognising and valuing multigenerational perspectives in the workplace

This is the first time in history that employers are managing five different generations. Surveys have shown that while Gen Z report lower job satisfaction and burnout than any other group, 73 per cent of over 50s feel overlooked by ...

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ESOS compliance: A four-step guide towards your share of £1.12 billion

By Dr James Crosby-Wrigley, Head of Sustainability at Advantage Utilities The Phase 1 submissions deadline of the Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme (ESOS) – the mandatory energy assessment applying to medium and large businesses in the UK was in March. FMs ...

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Role of the Worker Protection Act in preventing harassment

Kieran Mackie of Amulet explores the importance of well-trained security staff in preventing harassment in the workplace The Worker Protection Act was updated in October 2024 and marks a significant shift in workplace safety and harassment prevention. It has been ...

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