Parallel Sessions

Following Madonna : A lesson for changing times

Is it time for FM to corporatively re-invent itself? This session looks at positioning FM to stake its claim as a major function for enabling business success and delivering more than just the core disciplines. 

Financial control of facilities across large complex estates

This session will demonstrate how financial control models can help to control FM costs and performance within strategic FM teams and methods for rolling out and auditing best-practice solutions for different types of occupied buildings.

Delivering the Future: Making Strategy Happen

Key steps to making strategies happen and how FM's can make a significant contribution to the success of an organisation, through raising their own profile and re-enforcing the influence of FM as a profession.

Social Factors and their impact on FM: changes to the workplace, workforce and supply chain

Following extensive research, this session will provide actual data to challenge the FM sector to embrace social change and its impact on FM. Gain knowledge on ways to use social change effectively to improve FM services and the appeal of the industry as a career choice.

Developing sustainable FM in an uncertain world

Organisations are challenged to delivering a sustainable business and manage the expectations of their supply chains. Development and implementation of strategies and identification of enablers can help these aims to be aligned to profit and competitiveness in a challenging world.

Governmental strategy to galvanise the FM industry: the lifeblood of Eastern European economies

How developing strategies for the FM industry can contribute to a countries' economy. In Eastern European countries developing the FM industry can help to galvanise society as a whole and deliver a significant part of GDP.

The investment case for reduction in building energy consumption

FM's need to make energy and emission savings which will show the best return. The presentation will examine energy saving options in actual buildings, projected emission savings and return on investment, together with procurement of building energy reduction measures.

The application of lean thinking in FM

A presentation of concepts underpinning systems thinking and lean thinking and identifying possible benefits and limitations of the approach within FM.

Workplace law: a case study in compliance

Explain through a real life case study about achieving compliance during an office fit out - from workspace shell to fully fitted training and office facility. Includes film footage of the process.

Standards based solutions to addressing social, environmental and economic aspects of sustainable development

Gain an understanding of how management system standards can provide FM's with a framework for organisations to become more sustainable through social, economic and environmental elements, to address stakeholders needs.

Working across boundaries – the FM Challenges in an advancing world - Workshop

Steve Gladwin, Chairman, Global FM

A key issue facing FM is the challenge of delivering consistent services across boundaries - local, national and international. The session will explore the challenges of cross boundary delivery in FM and look at practical solutions.

This is a workshop which will run for 2.5 hours.

Commercial Removals

Steven Vickers, Managing Director, British Association of Removers