by Steve Voller | Feb 17, 2021 | Blog
Preventing damage to underground utilities in estates Underground assets and buried services in the estate are essential to keeping buildings working and staff delivering services. Out of sight needn’t be out of mind. Read our post on the Facilitate...
by Steve Voller | Dec 16, 2020 | Blog
More than 4 million excavations take place on UK roads each year with approximately 60,000 utility strikes occurring annually in the UK alone contrasted with 500,000 in the USA. These excavations are from essential work by asset owners in laying and maintaining...
by Steve Voller | Dec 3, 2020 | Blog
The National Underground Asset Register (NUAR) project, led by the Geospatial Commission, has successfully raised the profile of managing underground assets and buried services and the benefits to the UK economy of doing so. We now await the next steps in the process...
by Steve Voller | Jul 19, 2020 | Blog
Before Coronavirus, cleaning in most businesses and schools was a low profile, unglamorous necessity. On-site hygiene and cleanliness are important, of course, both for the wellbeing of people as well as their safety, but their impact can be hard to measure, and...
by Steve Voller | Jun 30, 2020 | Blog
On the 29th June there was welcome news from the UK government that it is to spend £1bn on re-building schools in England. It’s worth spending a few minutes looking behind the headlines at the detail and the scale of problem this funding is trying to tackle....
by Steve Voller | May 13, 2020 | Blog
Everyone accepts that maintenance job prioritisation is important: do the most urgent stuff first, right? Many facilities teams use a simple scale for maintenance job prioritisation such as one-to-five or low-to-critical. These approaches have the benefit of being...
