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How are you driving net zero? Take our 2024 Sustainability Survey
We’re delighted to launch the IWFM 2024 Sustainability Survey and call on workplace and facilities managers (WFMs) in the UK and Ireland to help us understand what practitioners are doing to support their organisations on decarbonisation.
Coming soon: our 2024 Sustainability Survey on decarbonisation
As organisations widely embrace sustainability, decarbonisation – the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and transition to renewable energy sources – is a key priority yet massive undertaking, requiring substantial planning and resource allocation.
IWFM calls on next UK Government to act on four key WFM areas
Ahead of next week’s UK election, we’ve highlighted four key areas the next Government needs to act on to ‘stimulate and sustain’ the national workplace and facilities management (WFM) profession and sector.
IWFM UAE Region urges organisational change and sectoral action post-COP28
Recently, the IWFM UAE Region brought together workplace and facilities management (WFM) leaders to discuss COP28’s impact.
Spreading sustainability and skills at the University of Bolton
Recently, we were delighted to engage with the community at the University of Bolton Business School to address a leading issue, sustainability.
IWFM and Equans join forces to supercharge WFM’s sustainability opportunity
The Institute of Workplace and Facilities Management (IWFM) has entered into a new strategic partnership with Equans – a market leader in the energy and services sector; a collaboration that will leverage the huge potential of the workplace and facilities sector to help drive sustainability across organisations.
5 reasons to read our new and updated Energy Management GPG
In association with Carbon Numbers, we recently released our new and updated Energy Management Good Practice Guide (GPG), which has received coverage from publications including Facilities Management Journal, Business Wire in Essex, EIN Newsdesk and I-FM.
Optimise building performance, reduce energy consumption and ensure compliance with our Energy Management GPG, in partnership with Carbon Numbers
To tackle climate change and cut waste, effective energy management has become a key concern for organisations across the board, with workplace and facilities management (WFM) increasingly realising the key critical role they play in achieving organisational sustainability outcomes.
Reasons and remedies for prioritising skills and training
This week I spoke at Workplace Futures 2024, a conference which explored the intersection between people and technology amidst rapid change. There was a focus on the challenges, opportunities and – as the theme of the day had it – their symbiosis. With workplace experience one of the key phrases of the day, this connection is key for our own lynchpin profession, workplace and facilities management (WFM).
Sustainability Survey 2023: Do WFMs have a big enough stake in energy and carbon plans?
IWFM is proud to release the Sustainability Survey Report 2023, based on the insight of 620 workplace and facilities management (WFM) surveyed last year. The comprehensive report finds that the sector’s professionals are insufficiently involved in organisations’ plans around energy efficiency and carbon reduction, suggesting that plans are flawed from their inception.
Coming soon: new IWFM research into sustainability’s biggest roadblocks
There can be no question about the vital role of workplace and facilities management (WFM) in achieving greater energy efficiency and reducing carbon emissions.
IWFM contributes to Scope 3 framework
Recently, IWFM collaborated with Acclaro Advisory and other industry leaders to create the ‘Framework for Scope 3 Emissions in FM’, benchmark setting guidance to help FM businesses monitor and reduce indirect emissions in their supply chain.