NEWS RICS REPORT CALLS
FOR ACTION FMs share a global need to prove their value to board level directors, a new global RICS report has revealed. Launched in Washington DC, the ‘Raising the Bar: City Roundtables Research Report (Phase II)’ suggests that FMs are being denied access to board level across continents. The research found that barriers, which prevent the practitioners from “acting more strategically”, are consistent across both geographies and industry sectors.
Authored by Occupiers Journal Ltd, the report builds on findings from RICS’ 2012 research, ‘Raising the Bar: Enhancing the Strategic Role of Facilities Management (Phase I)’, which provided evidence for high-performing organisations to introduce FM as a strategic management discipline.
The latest report considers previous recommendations and surveyed FM professionals across six continents and 12 economically different cities, including London, New York, Hong Kong, Sydney and São Paolo, where they identified ‘A Dozen Challenges’ to the profession answered by ‘A Dozen Recommendations’ to the FM market.
Johnny Dunford, Global Commercial Property Director at RICS, said: “After staff, property is the biggest expenditure of most businesses, hence the importance of integrating FM within the overall business strategy. This research proves that there can often be too many layers between senior FM staff and the CEO. Change cannot be made until FM is taken seriously at board level and, to achieve this, the industry must raise its profile with business leaders.”
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RECOLIGHT HELPS SET LED
STANDARD Recolight, the leading WEEE compliance scheme for the lighting industry, has confirmed its involvement in creating a new international draft standard for LED lighting in its role as the UK’s representative to The European Committee for Electronic Standardisation (CENELEC).
Work on the draft standard began a year ago, with Recolight acting as consultant to the Technical Body on waste lamp recycling. If the standard is adopted, it will be sent to national standards committees, such as the British Standards Institute (BSI), for approval. If accepted here, the standard will be published by CENELEC. The UK Government can then decide whether the standard is used or not.
Further to this activity, Recolight is to host a two-day meeting in the UK for CENELEC and many other
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CENELEC Committee
EU-wide representatives, as part of their regular meetings to build the draft standards.
Commenting on the announcement, Recolight Chief Executive, Nigel Harvey, said: “There has been terrific work conducted by CENELEC on regulating recycling techniques to establish best practices. This
includes, for instance, building those regulations governing the amounts of mercury that can be left in the different fractions after a lamp is recycled. Ultimately, this will help to make sure the environment is kept safe from hazardous materials.”
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