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Welcome to the pleasure dome

In lines taken from the poem, Kubla Khan, Samuel Taylor Coleridge describes...

 

Shanghai sustainability

When it is complete in 2014, Shanghai Tower will stand 632 metres above t...

 

City Tunnel success

One of the major success stories of the last decade was the building of the...

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The Leadenhall Building aka the Cheesegrater

As different as chalk and cheese

The Leadenhall Building, popularly known as the 'Cheesegrater', is destined to become the tallest building in the City of London at 225m; that is, until the nearby 'Pinnacle' (Bishopsgate Tower) at 288m is completed. The Cheesegrater is impressive; especially as this huge project is rising in such a small space. The site delivery logistics alone are amazing, as Laing O'Rourke - the constructor - is using massive prefabricated parts such as 35m columns.

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Standard way, best way

Standard practice is best practice

One of the great misunderstandings is the role of standards – in the sense of British (BS) and international (ISO) standards – and that they are all about products. True, many standards are; but most of those published in recent years and under preparation in the area of the built environment are process-related.

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BS 8572:2011

Procurement as standard

The publication of a new standard covering the procurement of facility-related services brings clarity and consistency to an area that has for long been neglected. Too often, decisions on the provision of services – security, waste management, cleaning, maintenance, even IT and catering – have been based on an incomplete understanding of the processes involved. That is set to change.

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A focus on HS3

HS3

Once it was just health and safety (H&S). Increasingly, concern about the wellbeing of people and the environment has broadened the term to HSSE – health, safety, security and environment. The last of these terms now appears in some places as 'environmental sustainability' and, most recently, the term has been reduced simply to 'sustainability'. We now have HSSS or HS3 for short.

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WEEE Man sculpture

WEEE Man is a 3.3-tonne structure at the Eden project that represents the amount of waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) the average UK household throws away in a lifetime. For more information visit the Eden Project.

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The Facilities Society is dedicated to interdisciplinary and cross-sector academic enterprise to support the needs of the UK research community, government, businesses and the public interest. In its role as a learned society, it complements established institutes and the universities. The Society was founded in 2008 as a not-for-profit company limited by guarantee.

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