European Facilities Management: A Green Approach

Online, July 23, 2010 (Newswire.com) - (Norwich, UK)-- The days when outsourcing the management of capital assets meant little more than getting someone in to do your cleaning and change the light bulbs went long ago. But even today facilities management can be a piecemeal affair, with some of it done in-house and the rest parcelled out to specialist firms.

Business Review Europe looks into the Facilities Management market, which has been becoming increasingly price sensitive and characterised by closer relationships between suppliers and contractors, as greater efficiencies and lower procurement costs are sought.

Across Europe, governments are focused on carbon reduction. For example France is planning to reduce its CO2 emissions by 75 percent, as laid out the Energy Act 2005, and Germany has set a reduction target of 40 percent by 2020 with the Emissions Ordinum (emissions trading scheme) coming into force in 2012.

"Our clients want more than cost reduction; they expect us to offer sustainable Facilities Management solutions ranging from web-based energy management software, which can be accessed on any computer with an internet connection, to energy audits that eventually help organisations improve their triple bottom line," says Andy Eastwood, Johnson Controls' Director of Facilities Management for EMEA.

Read the full article in Business Review Europe at http://www.businessrevieweurope.eu/business-features/operations/how-go-green-facilities-management.