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Editorial Editor Ryan Lloyd
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Rather than do my normal 400-word spiel about 2019 proving to be as equally, if not more, egregious and divisive than 2018/17/16 (insert year here), I’ve decided to tell you about a weird and wonderful story I read about at the tail
end of last month in Reuters. Because who really wants to lament the steady decline of civilised society when a group of eighth graders in the Philippines have found a way to convert poo from stray dogs into a mixture for bricks.
These secondary school bright sparks gathered and air-dried dog faeces, which were then mixed with cement power and moulded into rectangular “bio bricks”. With dog ownership unregulated in the Philippines, a large number of stray dogs roam aimlessly around the cities. The genius solution aims to rid the capital, Manila, of excrement whilst simultaneously lowering construction costs.
Maybe by the end of 2020 facilities managers up and down the country will be using these bio bricks and we’ll all be working in buildings made of dog excrement. Then again, given that the teenagers warn a faint odour
accompanies these bricks, I can’t imagine corporate giants like Anabas or JLL investing anytime soon.
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For the last issue of the year we get festive in the Hotels & Hospitality feature, with Brigad’s UK Country Manager Johan De Jager, sharing his advice on
how to ensure a smooth end to the year in the hospitality industry. Whilst our Leisure & Retail feature is headed up by Sigma discussing the role facilities managers can play in revolutionising the shopping experience.
We also return to a favourite feature section of our readers, CAFM & IT, with Urgent Technology providing a summary of their most recent whitepaper,
‘The FM as Data Scientist’. In it, Paul Djuric suggests that the true power for big data analytics lies in its ability to provide facilities managers with new preventative and predictive capabilities. The challenge set before the FM profession is now unmistakable: embrace big data or be left behind.
All that remains for me to say is thank you for all the support you have given
the magazine over the past year. It has been, and I hope will continue to be, a real pleasure working with you all.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
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