CONTENTS REGULARS


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WHAT’S NEW All the latest news and product releases from the


FM world.


10 QUESTIONS WITH… This month we spoke to Eren Stirling, Sales &


Marketing Director at Corps Security. FEATURES


FACILITIES & ESTATES MANAGEMENT LIVE PREVIEW


Following the success of its inaugural event, Facilities & Estates Management Live returns to the Business Design Centre in London for its second edition. Here’s what’s in store.


PIPEWORK UNDER PRESSURE James Griffiths, Head of Projects at GF Building


Flow Solutions, explores why risk has become a critical consideration when specifying piping systems.


WINTER MAINTENANCE 18AHEAD OF THE WEATHER A proactive winter maintenance strategy can identify


vulnerabilities across the estate and address them before the colder and wetter conditions create problems, explains Karl Cundill, Executive Director at Litmus FM.


20SITE LOGIC: STEPPING FROM SUMMER HEATWAVES TO WINTER RESILIENCE


Sam Pearce, National Account Manager at OUTCO, discusses prioritising safety, risk management and aesthetics after extreme heat stress.


ENERGY MANAGEMENT & SUSTAINABILITY 24NAVIGATING SHIFTING DEMANDS


Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG) and carbon reporting are ramping up. Paul McCaig, ESG Lead at Valpak by Reconomy, unravels the complexity and sets out a plan.


26A BRIGHT IDEA Nick Gwilliam, Lighting Designer at Ansell Lighting,


explains why whole life performance, repairability, adaptability and circularity all form part of the decision- making process, when switching to sustainable lighting.


28SUPPORTING THE ENERGY TRANSITION


for their energy strategy, asks James Rooke, Managing Director of Carbon Shift at Equans & Ireland.


04 | TOMORROW’S FM Why do facilities managers need a new delivery model HVAC 46HVAC UNDER STRAIN Cooling is a major energy demand in commercial


buildings, but is often overlooked in efficiency plans. With tighter EPC requirements and hotter summers, that approach is becoming harder to sustain, says Terry Rose, HVAC Director at Integral Cooling Tech.


48KEEPING HVAC SYSTEMS RUNNING For FM contractors managing nationwide estates,


access to products and technical advice can be just as important in delivering a rapid repair when HVAC systems fail, explains BSS.


STORAGE 52STORAGE STARTS WITH STRATEGY


Steve Harvey, Founder of SQUIREL, looks at ways to supercharge productivity with intelligent storage systems.


SECURITY & CYBERSECURITY 34THE HIDDEN COST OF SECURITY SYSTEM DOWNTIME


Ask any facilities or estates manager running more than a handful of sites what keeps them up at night, and a security fault rarely tops the list on its own. The priority, says John Lodge, Director of Service Growth at Chubb Fire & Security UK & Ireland, is what happens next.


38THE CHANGING ROLE OF SECURITY TECHNOLOGY


Cloud computing, mobile technology, connected devices, large-scale data analysis and AI are changing the role of security technology within buildings, suggests Jamie Allam, CEO Amthal Group Companies.


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