July 19, 2013
Latest edition of Insight newsletter available to view online
In the latest issue of the Insight newsletter; a new RSA survey suggests flexible working could give people around five more hours working time per week; advice on keeping the workplace cool; the UK Green Building Council launches Regional Leadership Awards; and plans to redevelop Smithfield market are given the green light. Contributor Andrew Brown shares his thoughts on what Graeme Obree, the Flying Scotsman, can teach us about workplace innovation – while Charles Marks comments on the office design challenges for the expanding technology, media and telecoms (TMT) sector. To view this week’s newsletter, which includes video footage of Charles Eames click here.
June 10, 2013
NeoCon and ThinkFM offer two different views of the facilities management elephant
by Mark Eltringham • Comment, Facilities management, Furniture, Workplace design
This week sees two events taking place on opposite sides of the pond that should hold a mirror up to the way we currently design and manage workplaces. In Chicago, it’s time for NeoCon, the annual office furniture behemoth held in the vast Merchandise Mart and attracting some 40,000 visitors, while in London it’s the distinctly low-key Think FM conference from the BIFM held at the Royal College of Physicians – for today only, as they say. While these are two very different events in terms of scale, content and format and both are nakedly commercial, only one strikes me as particularly meaningful. And even that is only about the meaning of one part of the facilities management elephant.
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