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Facilitate - May/June2025
Fair to say that our politics have become rather more aggressive recently, with many feeling a sense that our world, for now at least, is more exclusionary and less tolerant. But whatever the truth to that, one thing surely holds firm: legal and commercial drivers cause the world of the workplace to bring people together, not pull them apart.

Facilitate - March/April 2025
We’re looking to the near future in this latest edition of Facilitate. For one thing there’s a shift in the scale and necessity for new data centres as the growth in artificial intelligence introduces a new, more localised demand for facilities.

Facilitate - January/February 2025
The compliance conundrum.’ It’s such a good headline that you’re likely to have seen it many times in the past to headline an article about this biggest of facilities management challenges.

Facilitate - November/December 2024
The adage ‘adapt or die’ has become well worn over the years, aimed at anyone daring to propose retention of the status quo, whatever that may be.

Facilitate - September/October 2024
In their fresh September/October issue, Facilitate delves into what’s set to be an eventful autumn. The new Chancellor’s Autumn Budget will undoubtedly influence workplace and facilities management (WFM) as the direction of government policy is laid out, but to what extent?

Facilitate - Condition monitoring
It’s not easy talking about the imminent shifting of political sands when you’re producing a comment piece two days out from a general election.

Facilitate - Irresistible forces
Several people have mused recently on the subject of cultural change, or rather the lack of it. They point out that from one 20th century decade to the next we experienced kaleidoscopic change in fashion, art, music, architecture and more.

Facilitate - Disruptive influences
Welcome to the March/April 2024 digital edition of Facilitate, which can be viewed online or downloaded to read offline.

Facilitate - Reassembly instructions
Welcome to the January/February 2024 digital edition of Facilitate, which can be viewed online or downloaded to read offline.

Facilitate - A portrait of progress
Welcome to the November/December 2023 digital edition of Facilitate, which can be viewed online or downloaded to read offline.

Facilitate - 30 years advancing the profession
Welcome to the September/October 2023 digital edition of Facilitate, which can be viewed online or downloaded to read offline.

Facilitate - Access = success
Welcome to the July/August 2023 digital edition of Facilitate, which can be viewed online or downloaded to read offline.

Facilitate - 2030 fortitude
Welcome to the May/June 2023 digital edition of Facilitate, which can be viewed online or downloaded to read offline.

Facilitate - conversion equations
Welcome to the March/April 2023 digital edition of Facilitate, which can be viewed online or downloaded to read offline.

Facilitate - fixing the focus
Welcome to the January/February 2023 digital edition of Facilitate, which can be viewed online or downloaded to read offline.

Facilitate - badge of honour
Welcome to the November/December 2022 digital edition of Facilitate, which can be viewed online or downloaded to read offline.

Facilitate - out of focus
Welcome to the September/October 2022 digital edition of Facilitate, which can be viewed online or downloaded to read offline.

Facilitate - Star players
While a brief and enjoyable detour back to 2012 has informed one of our features for this edition, back in the present a period of serious uncertainty is setting in. Inflation is always a horribly pernicious phenomenon, but the pricing of facilities service provision has evolved over decades without the kind of price surge we’re currently seeing.

Facilitate - Who do we think we are?
If I have a clear messagethis month, it’s that there can be times when clarity becomes fogged – because ‘wriggle room’ clouds it. The bimester* just passed has seen this sector’s famous adaptability to circumstance highlighted again, just as happened when the pandemic hit, and just as happens on a day-to-day basis.

Facilitate - Fitness for purpose
Print deadlines are rarely an editor’s friend, and that’s certainly the case as we respond to a sudden, ugly war in Ukraine likely to prove life changing for all of us in one way or another.