Blog from Jason Webb, Director, Electronic Temperature Instruments The Autumn Budget presented an opportunity to reshape the economy around technology and scientific innovation and take a proactive approach to reskilling for a digital era. This means the upskilling of certain ...
Read More »Reducing carbon emissions through circular economy
The circular economy is to play a critical role in helping to cut carbon emissions. By recycling existing materials the highly energy-intensive production of new raw materials is reduced, accelerating the movement to net zero carbon emissions. What new technologies ...
Read More »Home advantage
While workers are beginning to go back to the office, a significant number of knowledge workers are still primarily home based. A trend paper from DURABLE, ‘Working in small spaces’ provides some practical solutions When FMJ covered research by Durable ...
Read More »The Building Safety Manager: Achieving competence
Following the Grenfell tragedy, there is an identified need to improve building safety performance by focusing upon improving the competence, and the behaviour, of the workforce at all levels. International Workplace’s Kelly Mansfield addresses what competence means and how it ...
Read More »Hybrid operations
Tom Absalom, Managing Director of JCA discusses the delivery of M&E services that support the operation of hybrid working “We will, and must, see people back in the office.” This was the statement made by the Prime Minister when addressing ...
Read More »Digital decarbonising
Sadaf Askari, ICL Partner Business Manager at IES explains the benefits to FMs in bringing digital innovation into ESG strategies Robust ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) strategies are important not just to curb global warming, but to reflect an increasing ...
Read More »Green days
Paul Alder, Founder and Managing Director, Vistafolia on green ways of reducing toxicity in the working environment As offices are reoccupied after a year of disruption and change, the role and importance of workplace wellbeing is likely to be the ...
Read More »Personal preferences
Patrick Ames, Director of Claremont suggests we need to look to individual personas to create ergonomic, desirable and efficient workplaces After 20 months of unprecedented change – businesses are fast realising the need to reinvent the workplace. The saying ‘we’re ...
Read More »Opposites attract
Jeff Dewing CEO of Cloudfm explains to Sara Bean how going against the grain has helped him build a successful business The lack of influence FMs have at Boardroom level has long been a problem, with concerns that the sector ...
Read More »Zero gains
Bryan McLaggan, MD, Combined Technical Solutions (CTS) provides FMs with a guide to the ways engineering services can help in their drive for net zero carbon As the UK economy ground to a halt in 2020 due to the COVID-19 ...
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