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50<br />
business news...<br />
GSH wins FM contract<br />
at Amsterdam Airport<br />
GSH has won a prestigious three<br />
year FM contract with Schiphol<br />
Nederland B.V. which operates<br />
Amsterdam Airport. The contract<br />
covers ‘hard services’ at Terminal<br />
3, Schiphol Plaza and piers E, F &<br />
G totalling 275,000m2 of floor<br />
space. Twin priorities are to maximise<br />
plant operating efficiency<br />
via technical engineering excellence<br />
and maintain a comfortable<br />
passenger environment at this<br />
leading airport complex.<br />
Commencing on October 1, 2005,<br />
the contract covers round-theclock<br />
maintenance and management<br />
of m & e and fire <strong>protect</strong>ion<br />
installations and will be undertaken<br />
by an on-site FM team. A<br />
planned preventative maintenance<br />
programme will be implemented to<br />
OCS sweeps up<br />
at the BBC<br />
OCS Cleaning & Support Services<br />
has won a Golden Service Award<br />
for its work at the BBC Media<br />
Village.<br />
Winner in the Best Cleaned<br />
Premises: Offices Over 15,000m2<br />
category, the OCS team picked up<br />
their award at the Royal Lancaster<br />
Hotel, London, beating off competition<br />
from seven other contract<br />
cleaning companies to secure the<br />
coveted prize.<br />
Says OCS chief executive, Chris<br />
Cracknell “Winning this award is a<br />
great tribute to the hard work and<br />
dedication of all our staff at the<br />
BBC Media Village. We pride ourselves<br />
on the quality of service provided<br />
by our teams, and it is pleas-<br />
enhance reliability<br />
and create long-term<br />
value. This will be<br />
based on a series of<br />
Whole Life Costing<br />
criteria including<br />
improved plant life<br />
and lower average<br />
running costs.<br />
R Leegwater,<br />
Manager Terminal<br />
Control of Schiphol<br />
Nederland B.V., commented:<br />
“Amsterdam<br />
Airport is a dynamic<br />
‘airportcity’, a multi-modal transport<br />
hub integrating people, business,<br />
information, shops and entertainment.<br />
It has a great social<br />
responsibility requiring the highest<br />
standards of safety, continuity and<br />
cost control and GSH was selected<br />
as it could best meet our FM<br />
requirements for this contract.”<br />
Frank Bosch, Managing Director of<br />
GSH Europe, commented, “This<br />
decision reinforces our reputation<br />
as an innovating market leader in<br />
the field of technical FM with a service-orientated<br />
mentality. Our<br />
team of service engineers located<br />
on-site have the experience and<br />
expertise to provide the high performance<br />
standards needed in a<br />
fast-moving airport environment.”<br />
Reader Reply No.: 85045<br />
ing to see their<br />
efforts rewarded<br />
in such a well<br />
respected<br />
awards ceremony.<br />
“Our 126 cleaners<br />
at the Media<br />
Village form a<br />
highly motivated<br />
and well trained<br />
part of the OCS<br />
family. Their<br />
excellent standard<br />
of care has<br />
been fostered by<br />
the comprehensive training of all<br />
our staff, many of whom have<br />
taken up NVQ schemes at a local<br />
college. Working together with<br />
Land Securities Trillium, they have<br />
always ensured that all our customer<br />
needs are met to the<br />
fullest.”<br />
The Kimberley Clark Golden Service<br />
Awards are open to all contract<br />
cleaning companies and in-house<br />
cleaning operations. Quality of service<br />
is the main criterion by which<br />
entries are judged, with innovation,<br />
staff management, training<br />
and client relationship playing<br />
important roles if the overall<br />
assessment.<br />
Reader Reply No.: 85116<br />
Pentagon Flimtek win<br />
contract to provide<br />
glazing system<br />
The twin-faced 25-storey glass<br />
facade of Vienna’s Ares Tower<br />
now has the benefit of enhanced<br />
glazing safety with the external<br />
retro-fit application of Pentagon<br />
Filmtek’s FT800 bolted glass containment<br />
system.<br />
Working with project appointed<br />
Facilities Management Fritsch,<br />
Chiari and Partner ZT Gmb as specialists<br />
in glazing safety, approximately<br />
2,500 panes of toughened<br />
glass weighing between 104 and<br />
157kg each have been treated with<br />
the system as a safety precaution<br />
to unpredictable glass failure. As<br />
principal contractor, Pentagon<br />
Filmtek’s expertise has included<br />
the organisation and carrying out of<br />
everything from access, replacement<br />
of glass where necessary and<br />
application of the FT800 glass containment<br />
film and bolted anchoring<br />
system without the disruption and<br />
extra cost of removal. Fritsch<br />
Chiari’s Herr Tarafa Baghajati commented:<br />
“We are more than happy with the<br />
work carried out by Pentagon<br />
Filmtek and their installation<br />
teams, both in terms of the application<br />
of the system and also the<br />
efficient way in which they have<br />
progressed this project<br />
Sir Robert McAlpine wins<br />
2005 Construction<br />
Manager of the Year<br />
This year’s Construction Manager<br />
of the Year Award has been won<br />
by Sir Robert McAlpine construction<br />
manager John Roper. He won<br />
the Award for his outstanding<br />
work leading the team who bid<br />
for and built the Paul O’Gorman<br />
building for the Northern Institute<br />
of Cancer Research at Newcastle<br />
University.<br />
The design and quality of construction<br />
of this landmark building has<br />
played a major part in creating<br />
world-class facilities for cancer<br />
drug discovery and application,<br />
designed to attract research scientists<br />
from around the world. The<br />
new state-of-the-art laboratory<br />
houses contemporary bioscience<br />
equipment and provides facilities<br />
for 150 staff, promoting multi-disciplinary,<br />
integrated research.<br />
The award was presented at a gala<br />
dinner at London’s Grosvenor<br />
House Hotel on Tuesday 25th<br />
October. According to the judges<br />
he “demonstrated an excellent<br />
understanding of how the project<br />
could be successfully delivered<br />
within a challenging, live, inner<br />
city environment”.<br />
Chris Blythe, Chief Executive of the<br />
As specialists in glass containment<br />
window film and anchoring solutions,<br />
Pentagon Filmtek have a<br />
range of anchoring solutions suitable<br />
for many types of glazing<br />
including framed, bolted and an<br />
upgrade anchoring profile system,<br />
all of which have been successfully<br />
tested to provide enhanced <strong>protect</strong>ion<br />
and glazing safety and have<br />
done so for Eurostar’s Waterloo<br />
International Terminal, Daily Mail<br />
and General Trust’s Western<br />
Morning News site and Singapore’s<br />
Changi Airport. RR No.: 84130<br />
Chartered Institute of Building<br />
(CIOB) commented: “John’s work<br />
on the successful bid was so<br />
impressive that his employer, and<br />
the client, gave him the job of<br />
building it. His total dedication to<br />
the project resulted in a world<br />
class building that exudes quality<br />
at every level. Winning a medal,<br />
and in particular being named as<br />
the overall ‘Construction Manager<br />
of the Year’, is a major achievement;<br />
John now joins the industry’s<br />
elite - an outstanding group of construction<br />
managers who have previously<br />
won the title.”<br />
Reader Reply No.: 85093<br />
www.practicalfm.co.uk