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May 17, 2008
FRL Headlines
GSH celebrates clean, green fleet
Source: FM World 08-04-08
Amec buys project services firm
Source: FM World 02-04-08
Amec has bought project services company Rider Hunt International for £25 million. Rider Hunt International (RHI) provides project services to the oil, gas, chemical, energy and process industries. The firm employs 240 staff in 15 countries. RHI will continue to be operated as an independent, stand-alone business.
Source: FM World 26-02-08
Balfour Beatty has announced that its chairman Sir David John is to retire following the company’s AGM in May.
Steve Marshall, who joined the Balfour Beatty board as a non-executive director in 2005, will succeed him as chairman. Marshall is currently non-executive chairman of Delta and also a non-executive director of Southern Water.
He is a former group chief executive of Thorn and Railtrack group, having served as finance director at each company.
LS confirms Trillium sale rumour
Source: FM World 27-02-08
The board of Land Securities Group has announced that, following recent expressions of interest, it is considering the benefits of a selling its Trillium business against the merits of a demerger.
This will run in parallel with the demerger process, which remains the primary focus of the board, it said.
Land Securities appoints London head
Source: FM World 03-03-08
Land Securities has appointed Jonathan Evans as head of London asset and property management in its London business division. It will be the first time that such a role has existed in Land Securities’ London business and will control assets of over £8 billion.
Evans joins from DTZ where he headed the inward investment team having previously been in charge of the West End business team. His appointment comes as Robert Heskett, currently head of London asset management, announces his intention to step back from a day-to-day operational role at the company.
Cofathec lands Berr deal
Source: FM World 06-03-08
Cofathec has won the contract to provide M&E, fabric maintenance services and energy management at the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform.
The contract, which will last for an initial five-year period will cover nine Berr sites ranging from London to Scotland. In support of the department’s sustainability targets, Cofathec has appointed a full-time energy manager to the Berr contract, together with 21 other staff members
Balfour Beatty chairman retires GSH Group has a clean, green and safe fleet, according to a latest review from the Energy Saving Trust. Following the trust’s Green Fleet Review, GSH’s van and car fleets are predominantly Euro 3 or 4 emission standard and its cars are largely NCAP (New Car Assessment Programme) 4 or 5 rated – and therefore considered to be safe and more environmentally friendly. The Euro standards for toxic emissions are a measure of the pollution produced, whilst the NCAP is a benchmark of the safety of new vehicles.
In 2007, all GSH directors exchanged their existing company cars for environmentally friendly hybrid models and last year, the firm reduced its CO2 consumption by 14,305 tonnes for its UK clients.
Neil Murray, GSH managing director, said that the review highlighted the proactive approach that the firm took “as well as the importance we place on both environmental, and health and safety issues.”
Kier awarded £500m station upgrade deal
Source: FM World 02-04-08
Network Rail has named Kier Property as the preferred bidder on a £500 million station regeneration project. The joint venture will regenerate stations at Enfield Town, Epsom, Guildford, Maidstone East, Twickenham and Walthamstow and a further site at Wembley Cutting. The sites will include new residential, retail and office accommodation along with new passenger facilities.
 
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FRL Press Releases
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 Release Date: 10th March 2008
Facilities Recruitment Limited (FRL), specialists for the recruitment of Facilities Personnel have recruited Scott Relf as a consultant for the Executive Division.Scott joins the team of specialist consultants who provide senior executives to the facilities management industry.
Scott joins FRL with a background in FM publishing. Having worked for Premises & Facilities Management magazine for the last 5 years, Scott has developed a keen understanding of the sector. Prior to FM publishing, he worked in asbestos abatement and control for several years, having originally come from the corporate data communications industry. For further information about the services Scott and FRL can offer either contact him at sr@frluk.com 0207 960 4128 or visit www.frluk.com
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Release Date: 4th July 2007
Nicky Allen has been appointed Manager of the Executive Search and Senior candidates division. She joins the team of specialist consultants who provide senior executives to the facilities management industry. Nicky has gained valuable senior FM recruitment experience working within the FM arena for over the last three and half years.
Nicky brings to FRL extensive experience & a successful track record of placing FM professionals. Her commitment to providing a highly customer focussed service and providing first class staffing solutions suits the culture at FRL. For further information about the services Nicky and FRL can offer either contact her at na@frluk.com, 0207 960 4124 or visit www.frluk.com
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Release Date: 8th June 2007
Facilities Recruitment Limited have appointed Liz Dougall as a Consultant in the expanding Soft Services team. She joins the team of consultants specialising in Help Desk, Facilities Administrators/Coordinators, Front of House, Catering & Cleaning Managers. Liz has gained valuable FM recruitment experience working within the Soft Services/ Building Services arena for over five years.
Liz brings extensive experience & a successful track record of placing FM professionals. Her commitment & dedication to the provision of first class staffing solutions has gained her an enviable reputation as a “Consultant that will deliver”.
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Release Date: 29th June 2007
FRL Host FM industry tournament, Facilities Recruitment Limited (FRL), specialists for the recruitment of Facilities Personnel hosted the BIFM five a side football tournament for the third year, this year held at Millwall Football club. Sixteen teams battled it out over 23 matches; ‘FM All Stars’ a team of independent facilities personnel were the tournament champions.
Through raffle prizes and sponsorship, FRL were able to raise an amazing £4,600 for the Marie Curie Cancer care trust.
For more information about FRL or the tournament, contact Marianne Glover on 0207 960 4120
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RELEASE DATE: 14TH MARCH 2007
FRL to host the BIFM 5-a-side football tournament 2007
Facilities Recruitment Limited the specialists for the recruitment of Facilities Personnel has joined forces with eh BIFM again to host the FM industry annual 5-a-side football tournament on Thursday the 14th of June 2007. The event is being transferred this year from Highbury to Millwall football club due to the Arsenal moving to the new emirates stadium, which does not have indoor facilities. The brand new facilities at Millwall are excellent.
The tournament will be available for up to sixteen teams from the FM industry and once again the level of competition for the trophy is expected to be tough. Last years winners Gale / GSK are hoping to retain the title. For more information about the tournament contact Philippa Standley on 01892 785676
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RELEASE DATE: 7TH MARCH 2007
FRL appoint new Managing Director
Facilities Recruitment Limited have appointed Mari Holloway as Managing Director. Mari is taking over from John Davis who is taking on a new role within the company as CEO. Mari initially joined FRL as the Director of the Recruitment Process Outsourcing Division in May 2006 having previously worked as an Operations Director managing prestigious contracts in the investment banking sector and pharmaceutical industry, with Sodexho and Compass.
Mari brought her extensive experience of managing contracts, compliance and cost savings to clients to ensure a best value approach. Mari will be responsible for the day-to-day management of the company and to oversee the continued growth which has seen FRL sales grow by 43% this last year and 235% the previous year.
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Release Date: 26.04.07
The Future of FM!
Facilities Recruitment Limited one of the leading providers of recruitment and HR services to the UK FM industry, hosted their sixth annual seminar looking at the future of the FM industry. The seminar was held at Tower 42 the award winning venue which FRL have been closely involved with for many years.
The theme of the day was to establish what the Olympics coming to London in 2012 would mean to the FM industry; how the FM industry cope with the demands of climate change and finally how the industry is seeing a push towards greater innovation in property and Fm management including globalised service provision.
Five prestigious note speakers gave dynamic and insightful presentations but it was the input from the 50 odd delegates who were all senior executives representing a varied cross section of service providers as well as in-house FM operations that gave the seminar a unique real time view of today’s industry.
The seminar was opened by James Cracknell, the twice-Olympic champion, Daily Telegraph journalist and TV broadcaster. James gave a fantastic insight into the dedication and focus required to win at the Olympics and how the London games can only be a success if the City and Country provide the passion and determination to make them a success. Regarding the focus, it was interesting to hear of the fact that his crew trained to such an extent that they felt that they would still win even if they produced their worst performance on the day. How many companies in FM adopt the same attitude in ensuring the service delivery promised in the SLA is that achievable?
Professor Michael Mainelli addressed the delegates regarding the effects of Climate change and apologised for being the doom merchant following such an inspiring speech by James. Michael has spent the last few years studying the impact of climate change and the economics of it. Although not a scientist, he has held the meetings with Al Gore and has a realistic view of the causes, effects and impact. The bottom line he gave was that the main effects will impact by 2055, at which stage the predictions are for increased see levels will have catastrophic effects for the UK. Despite government assurances there is little evidence of their commitment to resolve the issues. He felt that the recent marketing ploys of large commercial organisations were just that ploys. None of them really can significantly make an impact through carbon trade offs and that it will only be through large-scale input through commerce will drive an effective change. He agreed to a posed delegate question that possibly the FM industry could be held accountable for the climate impact of their organisations. He summarised his presentations with advising the F industry to avoid short-term views, act now and urge commerce to drive the change. All service providers should include sustainability and environmental climate change policies within their bids.
Oliver Jones, the CEO of The Asset factor, gave a very powerful and interesting view of the industry drive to a more integrated property and FM solution. He illustrated that the FM market was entering into new markets and that there were unbelievable opportunities for companies that were able to offer innovative products and services that offer an integrated property and fm solution that covers the whole 100% of organisations infrastructure as opposed to the current 10% of the operations most currently offer support on.
Peter Mclennan the head of the UCL Master degree course in Fm, gave a presentation illustrating the benefits of promoting the further education of FM’s. His statistics highlighting the increases in individual FM’s career development and remuneration were offset for companies by the large scale increases in productivity. In answering delegates questions, Peter agreed that they needed to be greater clarification as to the benefits and career opportunities for individuals in the industry to bridge the gap between operative / supervisory roles to more encompassing FM management roles. He also agreed that the was little promotion of the best organisations offering management development in FM, in the same way that Marks and Spencer and McDonalds were recognised for the quality of their training programmes.
The final speaker of the day was Guy Holden, Vice president of Johnson Controls, who gave a fascinating insight into the opportunities and difficulties of operating a company on a global basis. Guy felt although a huge challenge it was possible to be able to offer a Strategic / integrated and global offering to customers. He reviewed the vagaries of operating on a global platform including withdrawing local country Managing Directors and localised P&L accounts and running with purely a global P&L. He reviewed the difficulties of managing localised cultural differences but emphasised how technology had made the opportunity to manage on a global basis achievable. Despite the opportunists for global service delivery rapidly increasing, he warned that we should not overlook the threat of global competition. In particular he highlighted the quality of the skills employed by organisations such those possessed by staff in a company in Manila recently acquired by Johnson Controls where staff all had double degrees and spoke two to three languages.
In summarising the day John Davis the CEO of FRL, felt that the delegates had been on an interesting journey through the day and that the information from the speakers and input from the delegates themselves, would prepare them for avoiding the pitfalls, maximise opportunities and motivate to tackle the challenges of the future.
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