VOL 9 ISSUE 7 5 APRIL 2012
CONTENTS
7 | Ethical eating
16 | Terminal 5
24 | Flexible working
NEWS
OPINION
FEATURES
6 Public sector contracts brought back in house due to lack of value 7 Osborne’s 2012 Budget is FM-friendly, more or less 8 Project of the Fortnight: LSE’s new campus is hot on interactive learning 9 Think Tank: does the public sector use too many frameworks? 10 Business news: Graeme Davies analyses the Budget and the implications the sector 11 G4S reports a profit dip despite an increase in revenue 12 Business In Focus: Gordon Brockington discusses frameworks
14 Perspective of a facilities manager: Lionel Prodgers sees facilities, literally, from a bird’s-eye view 15 Five minutes with Sahar Hashemi, co-founder of Coffee Republic 42 No Two Days
MONITOR
26 | Procurement roundtable
16
Heathrow Terminal 5: Dave Arminas checks in with Amey, whose team works round-the-clock to service the airport building’s 35,000 daily visitors
22
Flexible working: Are certain types of people better suited to working from home? Kevin Stanley asks what explains reluctance in some quarters
26
Procurement roundtable: The second part of the FM World and Supply Management-hosted forum, which involved FM and procurement professionals
32 Legal: Sue Sharp on Legionella’s rise – and the legal ramifications
REGULARS 34 BIFM news 37 Diary of events 38 People & Jobs 40 Appointments
For exclusive online content including blogs, videos and daily news updates
visit fm-world.co.uk FM World Jobs – the best place to find FM career opportunities online
visit fm-world.co.uk/jobs For immediate notice of new FM World content, sign up to follow us on Twitter COVER IMAGE: T5
visit twitter.com/fm_world FM WORLD | 5 APRIL 2012 | 03
03_Contents.indd 03
29/3/12 17:27:48