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GSH wins FM contract
at Amsterdam Airport
GSH has won a prestigious three
year FM contract with Schiphol
Nederland B.V. which operates
Amsterdam Airport. The contract
covers ‘hard services’ at Terminal
3, Schiphol Plaza and piers E, F &
G totalling 275,000m2 of floor
space. Twin priorities are to maximise
plant operating efficiency
via technical engineering excellence
and maintain a comfortable
passenger environment at this
leading airport complex.
Commencing on October 1, 2005,
the contract covers round-theclock
maintenance and management
of m & e and fire protection
installations and will be undertaken
by an on-site FM team. A
planned preventative maintenance
programme will be implemented to
OCS sweeps up
at the BBC
OCS Cleaning & Support Services
has won a Golden Service Award
for its work at the BBC Media
Village.
Winner in the Best Cleaned
Premises: Offices Over 15,000m2
category, the OCS team picked up
their award at the Royal Lancaster
Hotel, London, beating off competition
from seven other contract
cleaning companies to secure the
coveted prize.
Says OCS chief executive, Chris
Cracknell “Winning this award is a
great tribute to the hard work and
dedication of all our staff at the
BBC Media Village. We pride ourselves
on the quality of service provided
by our teams, and it is pleas-
enhance reliability
and create long-term
value. This will be
based on a series of
Whole Life Costing
criteria including
improved plant life
and lower average
running costs.
R Leegwater,
Manager Terminal
Control of Schiphol
Nederland B.V., commented:
“Amsterdam
Airport is a dynamic
‘airportcity’, a multi-modal transport
hub integrating people, business,
information, shops and entertainment.
It has a great social
responsibility requiring the highest
standards of safety, continuity and
cost control and GSH was selected
as it could best meet our FM
requirements for this contract.”
Frank Bosch, Managing Director of
GSH Europe, commented, “This
decision reinforces our reputation
as an innovating market leader in
the field of technical FM with a service-orientated
mentality. Our
team of service engineers located
on-site have the experience and
expertise to provide the high performance
standards needed in a
fast-moving airport environment.”
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ing to see their
efforts rewarded
in such a well
respected
awards ceremony.
“Our 126 cleaners
at the Media
Village form a
highly motivated
and well trained
part of the OCS
family. Their
excellent standard
of care has
been fostered by
the comprehensive training of all
our staff, many of whom have
taken up NVQ schemes at a local
college. Working together with
Land Securities Trillium, they have
always ensured that all our customer
needs are met to the
fullest.”
The Kimberley Clark Golden Service
Awards are open to all contract
cleaning companies and in-house
cleaning operations. Quality of service
is the main criterion by which
entries are judged, with innovation,
staff management, training
and client relationship playing
important roles if the overall
assessment.
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Pentagon Flimtek win
contract to provide
glazing system
The twin-faced 25-storey glass
facade of Vienna’s Ares Tower
now has the benefit of enhanced
glazing safety with the external
retro-fit application of Pentagon
Filmtek’s FT800 bolted glass containment
system.
Working with project appointed
Facilities Management Fritsch,
Chiari and Partner ZT Gmb as specialists
in glazing safety, approximately
2,500 panes of toughened
glass weighing between 104 and
157kg each have been treated with
the system as a safety precaution
to unpredictable glass failure. As
principal contractor, Pentagon
Filmtek’s expertise has included
the organisation and carrying out of
everything from access, replacement
of glass where necessary and
application of the FT800 glass containment
film and bolted anchoring
system without the disruption and
extra cost of removal. Fritsch
Chiari’s Herr Tarafa Baghajati commented:
“We are more than happy with the
work carried out by Pentagon
Filmtek and their installation
teams, both in terms of the application
of the system and also the
efficient way in which they have
progressed this project
Sir Robert McAlpine wins
2005 Construction
Manager of the Year
This year’s Construction Manager
of the Year Award has been won
by Sir Robert McAlpine construction
manager John Roper. He won
the Award for his outstanding
work leading the team who bid
for and built the Paul O’Gorman
building for the Northern Institute
of Cancer Research at Newcastle
University.
The design and quality of construction
of this landmark building has
played a major part in creating
world-class facilities for cancer
drug discovery and application,
designed to attract research scientists
from around the world. The
new state-of-the-art laboratory
houses contemporary bioscience
equipment and provides facilities
for 150 staff, promoting multi-disciplinary,
integrated research.
The award was presented at a gala
dinner at London’s Grosvenor
House Hotel on Tuesday 25th
October. According to the judges
he “demonstrated an excellent
understanding of how the project
could be successfully delivered
within a challenging, live, inner
city environment”.
Chris Blythe, Chief Executive of the
As specialists in glass containment
window film and anchoring solutions,
Pentagon Filmtek have a
range of anchoring solutions suitable
for many types of glazing
including framed, bolted and an
upgrade anchoring profile system,
all of which have been successfully
tested to provide enhanced protection
and glazing safety and have
done so for Eurostar’s Waterloo
International Terminal, Daily Mail
and General Trust’s Western
Morning News site and Singapore’s
Changi Airport. RR No.: 84130
Chartered Institute of Building
(CIOB) commented: “John’s work
on the successful bid was so
impressive that his employer, and
the client, gave him the job of
building it. His total dedication to
the project resulted in a world
class building that exudes quality
at every level. Winning a medal,
and in particular being named as
the overall ‘Construction Manager
of the Year’, is a major achievement;
John now joins the industry’s
elite - an outstanding group of construction
managers who have previously
won the title.”
Reader Reply No.: 85093
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