PFI and other stories: Facilitate takes on the big topics for 2024

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As professionals return to a full in-tray after the festive season, Facilitate drops its January/February edition, full of insight into the most pressing industry issues.  

The cover feature is on the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) model for financing the construction and subsequent facilities management of public sector projects over many years. The article delves into the recent decline of PFI procurement and why that’s occurred, the difficulties of effectively executing contractual duties under current conditions and the uncertainty which surrounds devising a new model which works.  

With serious implications for all levels of the workplace and facilities management (WFM) sector, despite the phasing out of PFIs, the issue doesn’t appear to be clearly resolvable soon.  

Additionally, carbon offsetting as a useful tool for reducing emissions is assessed, with questions around the efficacy and validity of such schemes explored. As increasing numbers of organisations embed net zero into their agendas, there is both challenge and opportunity for WFM to make sustainability a priority, as seen with the recent Scope 3 benchmarking guidance.  

Further coverage is dedicated to the enduring popularity of hybrid working among today’s professionals - and senior leaders’ struggles to coax them back to the workplace. Driving productivity and team satisfaction has long been a function of WFM, with post-pandemic conditions creating new opportunities and challenges for optimising key team outcomes.  

Access the latest issue of Facilitate to discover much more insight into these topics today