Columnists
January 14, 2013
Cloud computing set to transform business models
by Mark Eltringham • Comment, Technology, Workplace
[embedplusvideo height=”196″ width=”300″ standard=”https://www.youtube.com/v/Y7hHXRIRflg?fs=1″ vars=”ytid=Y7hHXRIRflg&width=300&height=196&start=&stop=&rs=w&hd=0&autoplay=0&react=1&chapters=&notes=” id=”ep6634″ /] As an issue explored in our own briefing on the technologies that will do most to transform the workplace during 2013, we know the Cloud is set to be adopted (and understood) by more and more organisations and individuals in the coming year. Doubtless it will follow the […]
January 8, 2013
What does 2013 hold for the facilities sector in the UK?
by Mark Eltringham • Comment, Facilities management, Furniture, Property, Workplace design
Insight publisher Mark Eltringham offers some thoughts about what the coming year holds in the latest issue of Facilities Management Journal including the ongoing existential crisis of facilities management, why the commercial property sector needs to catch up with occupiers and designers as well as a plea for everybody to set ambitious goals and make realistic […]
January 2, 2013
It’s essential to design flexibility into an office
by Mark Eltringham • Comment, Facilities management, Furniture
January 24, 2013
Yes, very nice, but who do you think is going to clean it?
by Mark Eltringham • Architecture, Comment, Facilities management, Workplace design
If you want to, you can see the difference between design and facilities management as the difference between sex and parenthood. One is an act of creation, the other of care. So while an architect or designer might look at the honeycomb structures and shiny surfaces of the interior of the 40,000 capacity Sheikh Zayed Mosque […]