Facility Management

Facility Management is Australasia's premier independent magazine addressing the needs of professional building and property managers and their suppliers. Readers are interested in the latest information regarding the operation, efficiency and design of commercial buildings.

EDITOR'S LETTER

CONTENT PARTNER CONTRIBUTIONS

AI IS TRANSFORMING COMPUTING – A KEYNOTE

Social economic infrastructure to get clean energy boost with specialist green energy fund

Wastewater drainage from start to finish: trade waste management in buildings

NEW FM PRODUCTS

Ceiling the deal • Here we continue FM Workspace360 – a new platform bringing you the latest, greatest and most exciting innovations in the FM industry – and in this second instalment FM looks at progressions in ceiling restoration through the eyes of EnviroScope and Dulux.

WHEN MINDSET MET ENVIRONMENT • An in-depth look at the relationship between workplace environment and employee well-being, through the University of Sydney’s research into the Positive Built Workplace Environment.

Content partner: Humanscale Resilience and ergonomics • Ensuring employee resilience and well-being requires an ergonomic work environment, not just offering company massages and counselling sessions, writes ALAN HEDGE.

Content partner: Billi A teaching opportunity • Australia is looking at significant population growth over the next couple of decades and part of the infrastructure needed to accommodate this is in education. Schools and schoolchildren need water, and a great way to deliver this is via a filtration system, writes ADRIAN CUGNETTO.

Content partner: ASSA ABLOY Hot desking and security • New working environments and strategies come with all sorts of opportunities and benefits, but they also give rise to new challenges. One of them is security issues, but they can be easily addressed with the right equipment, writes JOHAN GANTIN.

THE GOOD SHEPHERD • Shepherd Filters founder Jeremy Kronk lives up to his company’s namesake by leading the way in kitchen fire safety.

LEVERAGING LEADERSHIP • In today’s current corporate climate, it’s necessary for businesses to evolve – and this means effectively distributing leadership roles, writes JEFF SCHWISOW.

ISO 41000 – GAME-CHANGER OR WHITE ELEPHANT? • The recent publication of ISO 41001 represents a significant milestone towards FM industry maturity, but will the industry embrace it or view it as another costly level of compliance?

The business district of the future • Density is no longer a dirty word, as business parks and their industrial counterparts reinvent themselves to offer dynamic, sustainable workplace environments with all the amenities of the city, writes KEVIN ORR.

In and out • Facilities management may be a behind-the-scenes industry, but both customer and employee satisfaction are vital to its success. MARIE-CLAIRE ROSS looks at why trust is important for FMs, their teams and their customers.

A healthy cooling tower • Cooling towers are essential to a building’s operation; however, there are many that suffer from years of neglect. It’s a facility manager’s responsibility to maintain the health of their cooling tower, and ARIAN BAHRAMSARI tells us how.

Community dialogue in smart lighting upgrades

Learning and remote frontiers • There are all sorts of progressions gracing the FM industry and, in this new instalment in GRAHAM CONSTABLE’s thought-provoking series, Marcus focuses on the innovations at the International Space Station (ISS).

Poor power quality can cost you big time • Franchisers and franchisees of such outlets as convenience stores, fast food operators and service stations are not necessarily used to intensive energy audits and energy saving measures, and as a result can pay...