News stories of the month
BIFM ANNOUNCES WINNERS OF EXCELLENCE
award went to MITIE. The Innovation in Products award, sponsored by HSS Hire, went to SitexOrbis Ltd.
The third award for Innovation in T
he FM Awards ceremony of the year took place at The Grosvenor House Hotel, London, with over 1200 of the industry’s key decision makers and influencers there to celebrate outstanding FM achievements.
Achievements were celebrated into the early hours at the 10th annual BIFM Awards Dinner. The evening was hosted by TV personality Mylene Klass, who welcomed guests and
congratulated finalists on reaching this stage. BIFM Chairman Ian Broadbent addressed the audience before the Awards took place and wished finalists the best of luck.
The Gold sponsors of the awards were Mace and the presentations began with the Innovation in Customer Service award, sponsored by HOCHTIEF Facility Management. The
Technology and Systems/Services, was sponsored by Atkins, and was won by BBC Workplace.
The winner of the Impact on Organisation & Workplace award, sponsored by Interserve, was Sandwell Primary Care Trust and Plan B Solutions Ltd.
The award for FM Excellence in a
Major Project, sponsored by ISS Facility Services, went to SGP Property & Facilities Management.
The next award was for Public Sector Excellence in FM Team, sponsored by Hays Facilities Management. This went to Babcock. The Property Investors Excellence in
FM Team award, sponsored by Vinci Facilities, went to Incentive Facilities Management.
The eighth award for Corporate Occupiers Excellence in FM Team,
sponsored by Catch22, went to The Co-operative.
The award for Communications and Marketing was sponsored by FM World. The winner was AXA/Carillion. Landmarc Support Services in partnership with the Defence Training were the winners of the Judges Special Recognition award.
The Sustainability & Environmental Impact award, sponsored by Babcock, went to GlaxoSmithKline and Johnson Controls.
The winner of the Student of the
Year award, sponsored by Telereal Trillium, was Amanda Smalley. The eagerly anticipated FM of the
Year award, sponsored by Linaker, went to Julie Kortens from Channel 4. The final award of the evening, for Overall FM Industry Impact, sponsored by GSH Group plc, went to BIFM’s Professional Standards Education Director, Valerie Everitt. For more information visit
www.bifm.org.uk
Making Concrete the Colour of Money C
ement and concrete for decades have been
regarded as the antithesis of
all that’s green and growing, which is no surprise. The building and construction industry uses about 2.9 billion tonnes of cement and 30 billion tonnes of concrete every year, making them civilization’s most widely used substances after water. Further, production and use of all that material results in 2 billion tonnes of carbon output every year – about 6% of all human-generated CO2
emissions.
In its latest report, Lux Research assesses the expanding field of technologies aimed at making concrete greener through improved production techniques, advanced additives, alternative materials, and innovative applications.
36| SUSTAINABLE FM | NOVEMBER 2010 Titled “Paving the Way to Cost,
Energy, and Carbon Savings in the Concrete Industry,” the report evaluates which technologies are most likely to capture a significant share of the market. To do this, it scores technologies according to 14 criteria and plots them on a visually intuitive grid that allows readers to compare them by technical value and probability of adoption. In addition to analysis of the overall market, the report drills down into four market segments: improvements to Portland cement production, Portland cement replacement additives, alternative cementing materials, and building energy efficiency and performance technologies.
“Reducing concrete’s carbon footprint doesn’t drive adoption of these technologies so much as
reducing the energy costs associated with concrete’s production and use,” said Oliver Tassinari, an analyst for Lux Research and the report’s lead author. “That said, support for ‘sustainable buildings’ is growing among policymakers, architects, engineers, and building material firms. Existing and slated government regulations and incentives are likely to accelerate adoption.”
The report builds on extensive research compiled by the Lux Green Buildings Intelligence service, as well as multiple interviews of technology developers, chemical companies, cement producers and construction firms. Visit
www.luxresearchinc.com for more information.
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