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New Guidance Notes for Standard Facilities Management Contract
...idance notes feature several changes, including new provisions relating to team working, the maintenance of plant, and the ever-changing subject of TUPE. The guidance is written by Marc Hanson, partner in CMS Cameron McKenna’s construction team and author of the Workplacelaw Network's Guide to Facilities Management Contracts. Commenting on the guidance notes, Marc said: "As the facilities management industry develops, it is vital that we have clear and comprehensive standard contracts which enable each side to know where they stand. The second version of the contract and the addition of guidance notes truly provide...
News | 24 Oct 2002
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Partnering in FM: addressing conflict in facilities management contracts
Firstly, I would challenge Mr Pickard's statement that there is a culture of adversarial contract-based relationships" within Facilities Management. There certainly are a number of these but I think they are the exception rather than the norm and all the Facilities Managers of my acquaintance deal very professionally with suppliers and contractors. Yes, they want the best deal they can get but they are not bullies or adversarial and...
Comment | 18 May 2007
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10th Anniversary Facilities Management Legal Update Conference and Dinner
24 hot topics on new FM law and legislation in two days!The 10th Anniversary Facilities Management Legal Update Conference and Dinner, a major event in the facilities management calendar, is taking place at the Radisson SAS Hotel London Stansted on 2-3 February 2009.What’s new for the 2009 conference?Chaired by Martin Pickard, the conference is set to build on the success of previou...
Course_code | 10 Feb 2012
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Facilities Management Contracts
What information/reference should be written into a contract with regards to H&S responsibilities for both the FM company and the Client? Regards Dave
Comment | 14 Apr 2005
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Facilities Management Contracts
We are currently in the process of renegotiating our FM contract with a company who has been supplying the service for a number of years - overall to a satisfactory level of performance. Part of their offer is to transfer the budget for, and control of, "reactive Maintenance" to the FM supplier in
Comment | 3 Mar 2005
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Partnering in FM: addressing conflict in facilities management contracts
In my experience contractors feel more comfortable in their traditional role, and therefore answerable to the purchasing company (probably through the FM). We are relocating to new premises and during the various construction and fit-out phases just trying to get various contractors to tie-into t
Comment | 21 May 2007
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Facilities Management Contracts
Steve Reactive Maintenance could perhaps more accurately be described as Corrective Maintenance e.g. a component or a unit breaks down what Corrective Maintenance action needs to be undertaken to restore the function. You may find BS3811, Terms used in Terotechnology, helpful. The copy I have is
Comment | 11 Mar 2005
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Risks of incentivising performance in Facilities Management Contracts
Quite educative
Comment | 2 Mar 2003
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Facilities managers need to prepare for new security bill
Facilities managers have been warned that the Private Security Industry Bill will cause confusion when it comes into force, because the government has exempted in-house security guards from the requirement to have a licence. According the the British Security Industry Association (BSIA), it is very likely tha...
News | 12 Apr 2001
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Facilities managers expecting to pay the price for compliance, says legal update convention survey
Facilities managers are expecting to incur heavy financial costs to comply with the current raft of workplace legislation, according to at the second Facilities Management Legal Update Convention, which took place in Birmingham from 14-15 March. The FMLU Convention is the industry's leading legal event, raisi...
News | 23 Mar 2001
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Reality bites: managing in a recession
... says Andrew Teacher. technicaL 28 LEGAL upDATE In-depth technical guidance on: alternatives to redundancy; proposed changes to the Construction Act; and Energy Performance Certificates in educational establishments. Workplace Law News 24 26 CLINIC 09 mAINTENANCE: AN OppORTuNITy fOR COST SAvING? Facilities management service providers need to be creative to meet the needs of demanding clients, argues FMA Director General, Maurice Tidy. 20 ThE hEyDAy ChALLENGE: RETIRE WhEN yOu WANT TO! A decision in the legal challenge to the UK's mandatory retirement age, Workplace Law Network premium members ask o...
Magazine issue | 6 Nov 2008
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New PACE Contract: provision of services
...lities management services. The PACE contract contains standard clauses on a number of contractual issues, including payment, performance, maintenance, TUP, dispute resolution and contract termination.According to Marc Hanson of CMS Cameron McKenna solicitors, author of Asset Information's Guide to Facilities Management Contracts, the PACE contract is also suitable for use in the private sector.
News | 13 Jun 2000
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Energy management special issue
...tober) in order to give businesses greater clarity and awareness of regulatory changes. Changes in April include: · The Construction Industry Scheme (CIS) 7937 29th Employers have until 29 March to respond to a consultation asking for their thoughts and opinions on the Government's review of the facilities and time provided to workplace representatives. The review, which began in June 2005, follows the publication last March of a policy document entitled Success at Work, and is intended to address: · whether new methods of working in the modern workplace seriously affect the ability of workplace rep...
Magazine issue | 1 Feb 2007
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CIoB launches FM contract
The Chartered Instite of Building, in association with solicitors Cameron McKenna, used the recent FM Expo at Olympia to launch a new standard facilities management contract. The 20-page document contains 23 sections and three appendices governing the clauses clients and contractors would expect to see when preparing an outsourcing contract for facilities management services.The document has taken several months to come to fruition after lengthy pre...
News | 5 May 1999
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Employee is questioning management changes to his working hours
... depriving him of overtime he has come to expect and we have have changed his terms of employment. As we are continuing to give him regular hours above the 40 hour contract (8) I feel we are entitled to reduce additional hours as a business requirment. Does his argument stand thanks Tony Farrell Facilities Manager
Comment | 16 Sep 2007
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Stress management special
... repairs and potential legal issues. Circulation 7,000 (ISSN 1745-0160) Workplace Law Magazine is only available by subscription. Price £199 for one year. Call 0870 777 8881 Printed by Warners Midland Plc The Maltings, Manor Lane, Bourne, Lincolnshire PE10 9PH Workplace Law Magazine incorporates Facilities Management Legal Update journal. It is published 10 times a year by Workplace Law Group. Workplace Law Group Second Floor Daedalus House, Station Road, Cambridge CB1 2RE T. 0870 777 8881 F. 0870 777 8882 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval syst...
Magazine issue | 1 Nov 2004
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Beware Informal Contracts
On a daily basis businesses worldwide enter into commercial arrangements with other businesses, and in facilities management the outsourcing of non-core activities is particularly common. In many cases these commercial arrangements are on the basis of trust and previous relations rather than by entering into a formal contract (either written or verbal). The parties may have various reasons for relying on relat...
News | 30 Jun 2001
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Site manager sentenced after worker exposed to asbestos
A construction site manager from Barry has been sentenced after directing a bricklayer to demolish a wall that contained asbestos, which put him at serious risk. On 22 May 2009, Henry Bohlen, 63 was in Newport, supervising the refurbishment of the Monwel Hankinson facility, which manufactures
Case | 11 Mar 2011
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When does a contract exist?
Eversheds reported in Facilities Management Legal Update (Vol.4, Iss.6) about recent court cases concerning the confusion that can arise over whether a contract has come into existence. The High Court has now held that an agreement containing a provision that the price of the contract goods should be "fair and reasonable" was insu...
News | 29 Sep 2000
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Beware exclusion clauses in contracts
...pecial or consequential loss, howsoever arising (including but not limited to loss of anticipated profits or of data)" did not cover liability for loss of direct profits. This is a similar point to the one taken in the case of Hotel Services Limited -v- Hilton International Hotels (UK) Limited (see Facilities Management Legal Update Vol.4, Iss.3) and highlights the danger of not making it plain that all types of loss of profits are covered. In its exclusion clause, Wang argued that the reference in brackets to loss of profits included direct loss of profits, but the court held that "consequential loss" ...
News | 29 Sep 2000
