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10 Questions with... Paul Fritz
Q4 Q5 Q1
What was your first job? My first job at 16 was a
Trainee Motor Mechanic, working on diesel taxi engines. My eldest brother was a mechanic and I had an interest in how the engines’ mechanical technology worked.
Q2
How did you get into the FM industry?
Having studied business process management, I was exposed to the topic of sustainability and had to query the question of what sustainability meant. Years later, I got involved with a British manufacturing company that researched sustainable technology. Amidst a global atmosphere of change, I saw the FM industry as the place where the change culture would need to start.
Q3 60
Who, in any other industry, do you most admire?
There isn't any one individual I admire more than the next, but if I must choose, it's got to be my old dear. She worked hard and never complained. God bless her.
If money was no object, what car would you buy?
Well, if money was no object, I wouldn't need to drive because I would live near the white sand beaches of the southern hemisphere. Surfing on the waves, sailing in and out of the bays, growing fruits and vegetables and eating the scaled fish of the warm southern waters.
How would you improve the FM industry?
I would maintain the current provision of services but with a focus on delivering added value. I’d improve the focus on energy efficiency and implement a total quality management process to monitor and reward teams that put emphasis on energy efficient measures that achieve long-term, sustainable savings targets.
Q6 Q7
What did you want to be when you were
growing up?
I wanted to be a photo journalist and make films.
What do you do to unwind? I go to my allotment or
practice my saxophone or, when I know I have the time, I open my film projects file and develop scenes and character dialogue in my stories.
Q8
If you could host a dinner party with any
three guests, dead or alive, with a fourth cooking and a fifth providing the music, who would they be and why?
I’d invite Richard Branson, because I want tips on how to maintain
Q9
Each month we ask an industry professional the Tomorrow’s FM 10 Questions. This month, we chatted to Paul Fritz, CSR - Senior Account Manager at SAVortex Ltd.
successfully growing a brand, Lonnie Liston Smith to teach me some of his great sax melodies and Winston Churchill to coach me on how to motivate a nation. I’d have Raymond Blanc to cook, as we're going to need some exquisite food with all the meaningful discussion, and Paul ‘Trouble’ Anderson would be the DJ because he would bring along the best dance crowd.
What do you think is the future of the FM industry?
In my opinion, the way we think about energy will change in order to address the Carbon Reduction Commitment and other energy efficiency schemes. This shift in approach to energy usage will bring added emphasis to how decisions benefit long-term strategies.
Julie Kortens, Head of Corporate Services for Channel 4, asks...
Q10
What is the single biggest thing we can do
to encourage more youngsters to see FM as a career of choice?
Everybody is motivated by the acknowledgement they receive for using initiative in their working role. In my opinion, the biggest thing would be to show young people what benefits exist for using initiative in a FM role. Young people want to be creative so show them a role where they can be.
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Check out next month’s issue to see what Paul asked our next industry professional...
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