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• WFMs must be a key stakeholder when drawing up energy and carbon plans 

  15-02-2024 15:06 via fmj.co.uk
  
  Workplace and facilities management (WFM) professionals are insufficiently involved in organisations’ plans around energy efficiency and carbon reduction, finds new research by the Institute of Workplace and Facilities Management (IWFM).
  In a large-scale survey of WFM professionals conducted in Autumn last year, the Institute found that one in three WFMs were ordinary stakeholders at best when drawing up energy efficiency and carbon reduction plans, with some not being involved at all. Mea
  
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• ‘Security-by-design’ aims fall short leading to additional costs post-build

  15-02-2024 14:34 via fmj.co.uk
  
  A new report from Brivo, a global provider of cloud-based access control and smart building technologies, finds that while security is a new priority in building design, a mismatch between ambition and reality leads to spiralling costs.
  The results of Brivo’s research into integrated physical security in building design by Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) practitioners, has revealed that despite an increased commitment to “security-by-design” principles, the ind
  
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• Martyn’s Law – Transforming security preparedness in the wake of tragedy

  15-02-2024 12:38 via fmj.co.uk
  
  The Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Bill is a remarkable initiative aimed at improving security measures at public venues. Mike Bluestone CSyP, Executive Director, Corps Consult explores the impact the new law will have on security measures and the critical role of ‘Responsible Persons’
  In the aftermath of the devastating 2017 Manchester Arena terrorist attack, Figen Murray OBE, mother of one of the 22 victims, Martyn Hett, spearheaded Martyn’s Law and continues to champion
  
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• McLaren to repurpose art deco landmark

  15-02-2024 12:18 via fmj.co.uk
  
  Publica Properties Establishment has appointed McLaren Construction to carry out the £132 million refurbishment and extension of 318 Oxford Street, repurposing the House of Fraser department store as a 34,000 square metre mixed use development.
  The project restores the art deco landmark, built in 1937 and occupied originally by DH Evans and then by the House of Fraser until it went into administration in August 2018. The building is badly damaged by ‘Regent Street disease’ and
  
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• Less than one month to go until the arrival of The Manchester Cleaning Show 2024

  15-02-2024 11:54 via fmj.co.uk
  
  There is now less than one month to go until the UK’s biggest cleaning trade show arrives in Manchester, bringing together thousands of cleaning and hygiene professionals from across all sectors of society.
  The event, which takes place 13 – 14 March 2024 at Manchester Central, is fully booked for exhibitors, with 85 now signed up, making it the biggest Manchester Cleaning Show to date.
  According to figures reported in 2023, the cleaning, hygiene and waste sector employed 1.47 million
  
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• Eptura Workplace Index: 2023 has been a year of change to a new normal

  15-02-2024 11:09 via fmj.co.uk
  
  Most business leaders now accept the hybrid workforce as the new normal. While some organisations have insisted on a return to the office, the majority have adapted to a structured hybrid model.
  At the same time, in an increasingly tough economic climate, many businesses are now seeing real value in digitising and connecting their facility and asset management systems.
  Over the past year, Eptura has used proprietary data and commissioned research to explore how business leaders can balance oppos
  
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• Genesis Biosciences joins consortium to tackle antimicrobial resistance

  15-02-2024 10:54 via cleaningmag.com
  
  Genesis Biosciences has joined the COMBAT AMR consortium which aims to understand and control the emergence and dissemination of antimicrobial resistance in complex drain biofilms.
  
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• SEGRO appoints JLL to manage retail and office portfolio

  15-02-2024 10:02 via fmj.co.uk
  
  JLL’s Property and Asset Management (PAM) team has been appointed by SEGRO to manage a retail and office portfolio in Slough, in a new, three-year contract agreement.
  The UK Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT), and a leading owner, manager and developer of modern warehouses and industrial property, has expanded the scope of its relationship with JLL to include three multi-let office buildings and a number of single let offices.
  JLL will now act as SEGRO’s sole external agent, across
  
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• Door Controls Direct setting the standard for delivering reliable door control solutions

  15-02-2024 09:50 via fmj.co.uk
  
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• New partnership offers a safer line of emergency communication within platform lifts

  15-02-2024 09:39 via fmj.co.uk
  
  The Platform Lift Company (PLC) has partnered with SafeLine, a Swedish company that manufactures open protocol safety accessories for lifts, to ensure that all emergency auto-diallers currently installed within platform lifts are upgraded to digital ahead of the analogue switch off.
  Auto-diallers installed within platform lifts that depend on public switched telephone network (PSTN) lines will cease to work when the analogue telephone networks retire by the end of 2025. Auto-diallers allow passe
  
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