Willmott Dixon has won an £18m contract to fit out an office scheme in Birmingham for Legal & General Property. Source link
21 September 2016 | Herpreet Kaur Grewal A core set of sustainability provisions that should “form the foundation of how sustainability is incorporated into any property management service offering” have been launched. Integrating Sustainability into Property Management Services: Core Provisions will be backed by the Better Buildings Partnership Managing Agents
28 May 2016 – by David Hatcher Bilfinger GVA is poised to return to private equity ownership, with Swedish firm EQT the preferred bidder for its parent company’s building and facilities division. A circa €1.4bn (£1bn) deal is expected to be confirmed at a meeting of Bilfinger GVA’s supervisory board
Jet Aire Services, the drainage contractor that is based in Leeds, Yorkshire, has announced that they have appointed Mark Lee as their operations manager. It is thought that the Yorkshire drainage contractor has made this appointment in order to help expand the civil engineering section of the business. Mark Lee
The Designing Out Terrorism conference has been scheduled by UK Security Expo in order to provide a platform for the discussion of what would be needed to make building design more security focused. More than 250 exhibitors are expected to be represented at the event, which means that it will
Willmott Dixon has won an £18m contract to fit out an office scheme in Birmingham for Legal & General Property. Source link
21 September 2016 | Herpreet Kaur Grewal A core set of sustainability provisions that should “form the foundation of how sustainability is incorporated into any property management service offering” have been launched. Integrating Sustainability into Property Management Services: Core Provisions will be backed by the Better Buildings Partnership Managing Agents Partnership, a collaboration of the UK’s commercial property owners who are working together to improve the sustainability of existing commercial building stock. The document sets out the core activities that should be undertaken by any managing agent as part of their standard property management offering to clients. They have been prepared to be applicable across the entire commercial property sector and all members of the Partnership have committed to incorporate these provisions within their property management offers to clients. In addition, it provides detailed guidance for each of these activities on why they should be of interest to agents and how they can practically approach their implementation. Source link
28 May 2016 – by David Hatcher Bilfinger GVA is poised to return to private equity ownership, with Swedish firm EQT the preferred bidder for its parent company’s building and facilities division. A circa €1.4bn (£1bn) deal is expected to be confirmed at a meeting of Bilfinger GVA’s supervisory board on Monday. An announcement could be made as soon as Wednesday, with another board meeting scheduled for Thursday. However, any agreement would need to have the support of the Mannheim-based company’s influential workers’ council, which has strong representation on the supervisory board and could yet resist a sale. French facilities management firm ENGIE was the other party on a shortlist of two potential buyers. JLL and Triton Partners were also initially in the running. EQT typically holds its investments for between four and eight years, with an average to date of 4.6 years. GVA was previously controlled by private equity, with Lloyds Development Capital owning a 25.7% stake in the company prior to its sale to Bilfinger in 2014. All the content from this weekís magazine, including this article, is available in the new app. Should a deal with EQT go ahead, the new owner would have the option of retaining the division as a whole or selling off elements, including Bilfinger GVA. It is understood that there is interest from rival property advisers to acquire GVA should EQT decide to sell it on. Lambert Smith Hampton owner Countrywide has been tracking the process throughout and is one of the parties eager to undertake such a subtrade. LSH is on an aggressive expansion trail and came close to taking on Deloitte Real Estate’s transactional teams earlier this year. However, last month the teams decided to split and move to Gerald Eve, Knight Frank and Savills. A merger of LSH and Bilfinger GVA would bring together two businesses with similar cultures. Both are focused on consultancy and the regions, but with different client bases. Source link
Jet Aire Services, the drainage contractor that is based in Leeds, Yorkshire, has announced that they have appointed Mark Lee as their operations manager. It is thought that the Yorkshire drainage contractor has made this appointment in order to help expand the civil engineering section of the business. Mark Lee has experience in the construction and civil engineering areas of the business. More specifically, Mark has expertise in Term Maintenance Contracts. It is this specialist knowledge which make him the perfect candidate for the role of operations manager at Jet Aire Services. In the past, Mark Lee has been involved in the completion of a number of large projects including the Ringway Infrastructure Services, in which he was responsible for a number of different operations across North Yorkshire that had a combined budget of somewhere near £15 million. Mark has also held a similar role previously in his career while he worked for Balfour Beatty Infrastructure Services Ltd. In this role, Mark oversaw the delivery and completion of a range of construction schemes that values of up to £1.5 million. During this time, Mark Lees was responsible for the work and ensuring that all construction was carried out to the clients’ specifications as well as on time and within the specified budget. In his new role, Mark Lee will be working close alongside the contract Partners of Jet Aire in order to manage the programme scheduling, costs, resources, training for staff and safety audits that are required as part of Jet Aire Service’s domestic and commercial drainage work. Mark Lee’s role will involve him overseeing projects that are taking place across the region. Jet Aire Services are expecting to see business growth over the course of the next few years, therefore the appointment of Mark Lee will be added value to the company going forward with his wealth of experience and skills.
The Designing Out Terrorism conference has been scheduled by UK Security Expo in order to provide a platform for the discussion of what would be needed to make building design more security focused. More than 250 exhibitors are expected to be represented at the event, which means that it will be a great opportunity to network and share ideas on a massive scale. UK Security Expo has developed this conference in order to explore the different threats that are faced by the UK, including citizens, borders and infrastructure. The 250 exhibitors are thought to be amongst 10,000 visitors at the conference. These visitors are expected to have come from the Government, the transport industry, military, and emergency services as well as individuals from the public and private sectors. The Designing Out Terrorism conference has been organised for the second day of the UK Security Expo event and will be a one day conference that is dedicated to this topic, looking at what could be done by master planners, architects and engineers in order to incorporate security into the design stage. The conference will cover topics such as BIM, and security as well as what occupant security strategies could be implemented and how crime prevention can be incorporated into the building and environmental design. It will also be considered whether the resilient materials and more enhanced blast-resistant façades could be used to effect going forward. Attendees of the conference will also find out more about how buildings can be adapted in order to mitigate more marauding terrorist attacks and whether or not securing wider local areas can protect buildings as well as incorporating smart buildings, control systems and cyber threat. With some terror attack becoming more complex, continuing to use traditional building methods could make buildings and property vulnerable. Developing security regulations and options as technology adapts and improves is the best way to make sure buildings are as secure as possible.
