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22 Oct 2008 Book now for 2009 BIFM Conference
Booking is open for the 2009 BIFM Annual Conference. Next year’s conference returns to Keble College, Oxford and to the sustainability theme.
7 Oct 2008 Starbucks defends water usage protected
High street coffee chain Starbucks is wasting millions of litres of water a day by leaving a tap constantly running to clean spoons and other utensils.
6 Oct 2008 Amec sells wind farm business protected
Swedish energy firm Vattenfall has bought Amec’s UK wind farm business for £126.6 million.
6 Oct 2008 FM Days in Finland
Report from Helsinki on Nordic FM and EuroFM events.
6 Oct 2008 Mitie recycling waste at Gowm protected
The Government Office of West Midlands has awarded Mitie a contract to provide waste management and recycling services.

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Articles

29 May 2008 Green gauge
In the third of a series of industry roundtables arranged in association with BDO Stoy Hayward 12 voices from the sector share their views on the question of environmental reporting
29 Apr 2008 In the drink
What do people drink in your workplace?
26 Nov 2007 The not so foreign office
It is always difficult for an environmentally-conscious manager to be sure he is buying from a sustainable, ethical and morally-justifiable source – but a way of beginning to assess it in workplace furniture is by ‘product miles’.
5 Oct 2007 It's the principal
Just about everyone in facilities management has jumped on the sustainability bandwagon in recent years, so it’s refreshing to meet someone who has lived and breathed sustainability before it was remotely fashionable.
29 Jun 2007 Carbon bonanza
It’s such a tempting deal. All you have to do is plant a few trees and all your car and air travel can be done guilt-free.

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Events

24 - 28 Nov 2008 IOSH Managing Safely (Code 811IOSH)
24 - 25 Nov 2008 environmental futures 08
25 - 27 Nov 2008 The Professional FM Module 1 (Code 811PRFM1)
26 - 27 Nov 2008 Sustainability & Environmental Issues for FMs (Code 811SUST)
27 Nov 2008 Survival or Sustainability - Can 'Green' help avoid the 'Red'?

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Documents

  Type   Date Title
pdf icon Reference documents
Nov-08
The Good Practice Guide to Sustainability
The Good Practise Guide to Sustainability protected
pdf icon Reference documents
Nov-08
The Good Practice Guide to Sustainability Abstract
The Good Practise Guide to Sustainability Abstract
doc icon Reports
Sep-08
Sustainable FM KTP Survey Report 2008
The analysis of the Second Annual Sustainability Survey conducted in May/June of this year highlighted the opinions of the FM Community regarding their organisations stance on sustainability.
pdf icon Event information
Aug-08
SBC Event - An Introduction to Corporate Responsibility
Corporate Responsibility Training Course
 icon Audio Visual
Jul-08
BIFM Conference 2008
Twelve sessions (video/audio) from the 2008 BIFM Annual Conference

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