Facility Management April - May 2016

Welcome to a special edition of Facility Management, which features the official event guide for this year’s Total Facilities Expo. On a personal note, this is also a significant issue as it is my first as editor of FM. For that reason I hope you all enjoy the read and I look forward to providing FM professionals around Australia with all of the latest news and features in the future. In 2016 the Total Facilities Expo returns to the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, where Australia’s facilities management and workplace professionals will come together to discuss solutions that enhance the built and work environment. As the official event guide, this issue of FM includes an outline of the show’s key highlights, as well as a summary of the exhibitors and…

A Facility Management content partner is an organisation with which we’ve entered into a partnership to collaborate on content for the magazine. In this issue, thought leaders from their respective organisations are: ASSA ABLOY’S DAVID WARD David Ward, ASSA ABLOY business development manager, has more than 15 years experience in security management and access control services. ISS AUSTRALIA’S CHRIS BULMER Chris Bulmer is the national general manager of learning and development at ISS for Australia and New Zealand. He has been responsible for building the L&D framework and key deliverables for ISS’s Pacific Business since 2013. Chris has been a leader in people and culture for the past 25 years in international hotels and now the FM sector. SCHINDLER LIFTS’ SIMON MA Simon Ma is Schindler Lifts Australia’s systems and…

Divvy Parking secures funding to ramp up parking race Transport-tech company, Divvy Parking, is a step closer to rolling out its mobile building access technology across Australia after securing additional funding for the initiative. In the latest round of its capital raising campaign, Divvy secured an additional $2.5 million. The new funding, which was sourced from investors in Australia and Hong Kong, takes Divvy’s total capital raising to $5.3 million, following the $2.5 million it secured in the first round and the $300,000 in seed funding raised in 2013. Following a successful pilot campaign in Sydney recently, Divvy plans to use the funds to roll out the mobile building access technology across Australia’s CBDs. Divvy’s technology aims to connect and give commuters access to an entirely new network of thousands…

Maximum protection working at height Sayfa Group manufactures and installs access and fall protection systems to commercial and industrial buildings. The Travel 8 static line system is one of the few proprietary static line systems manufactured in Australia that is compliant to AS/NZS 1891.4:2009 and BS/EN 795. The addition of the Pilot static line traveller to the Travel 8 range ensures an even higher degree of user confidence by maintaining continuous attachment to the static line system. The insertion of the karabiner limits any mistaken opening of the cable release mechanism and provides double-action safety for maximum user protection. www.travel8-staticline.com.au Safe detection of pests DetectSafe has been carefully developed over the past two years by Adams Pest Control and is due for release in the coming months. DetectSafe will be…

You will always remember your first time. The stench, it’s unmistakeable. It’s truly unforgettable – an experience that certainly stays with you forever. No matter how many times you are exposed, it’s like no other. If you’ve never had the opportunity of experiencing the results of an accumulation of fats, oils and grease (FOG), the main contents of a grease arrestor – especially one that has been incorrectly installed or maintained – then thank your lucky stars. For me, my first encounter with a grease arrestor was as a young 18-year-old apprentice plumber. As the novice, I was tasked with resolving the issue, much to my journeyman’s amusement. I’ll save you the graphic details of the extremely smelly and unbelievably sticky greasy waste I encountered, all while confined to a…

Technology is having an enormous impact on our lives. It is changing how we work, how we socialise and how we communicate, and the commercial building space is no different. As security professionals, never before have we had this level of intelligence and information available to us and it’s not slowing down. In some instances, technology that was leading edge a few short years ago is already ‘old school’. While we have seen ongoing improvements in individual product suites, the biggest advancements have come in our ability to integrate disparate control systems. Integration is not new to the commercial property sector and, like a fine wine, it has been maturing over time. It allows us to create better, more efficient and smarter buildings that are greener and more cost-effective to…