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Facility Management and Essential Safety Measures
News and Updates
The best source for Facility Management and Essential Safety Measures
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2nd Issue - November 2008
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In This Issue
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Victoria. Annual compliance for essential safety measures is achieved by producing an AESM (Annual Essential Safety Measures Report)
Annual compliance is required for all buildings except for houses, garages and out buildings by 13th June 2009.
NSW. Annual fire safety statements are required to be issued for the maintenance of the essential safety measures installed within all building (except your house or garage) annually and lodged with the local council. Failure to lodge the certificate may result in fines issued for every week of lateness
South Australia. Ministers Specification SA 76 requires additional maintenance to the emergency and exit lighting including monthly tests to ensure operation and visual inspection for avoidance from obstruction and power availability.
Queensland. A certificate of classification must be on display as near as practical to the main entrance of a building. The laws require building owners to display a certificate of classification in all buildings other than class 1a (e.g. single house) and class 10 (domestic garages or carports)
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FM Innovations is the only software company to take your facility management and property management objectives, develop measurable key performance indicators around them and customise a software system that measurably helps you achieve those objectives.
Our WSMenterprise software addresses all management aspects of facilities and property, including space, works, room booking, leases and contracts.
And our consulting applies diagnostics to your current systems, plots the requirements of where you wish to be, and designs the modules and interfaces that give you exactly the systems infrastructure you need.
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Stokes Perna are a firm of Consulting Building Surveyors, being one of the founding members of the profession and have practiced in the field of Building Surveying for over 30 years. During this time they have consulted to a large number of organisations both in the private and government areas on a number of diverse projects.
As experts in all facets of Building Construction, they offer a comprehensive building consulting service.
Stokes Perna can identify, audit and review the requirements for the Essential Safety Measures installed in a nominated building, and also implement maintenance procedures to ensure compliance. Stokes Perna is capable to provide the required certification for the ESM satisfying the owners obligation under the states regulations.
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A Business Case for Facility Management Software
In today's financial crisis, budgets are being slashed and panic seems to be ruling over reason in many cases. Regardless of any financial crisis, the facilities management of buildings is still of utmost importance with fines and mismanagement consequences firmly in place. Here we discuss a business case for implementing a sophisticated software solution that is easy to use.
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Case Study 1
In just a few years IT has made the transition from being a ‘desirable’ to a ‘mandatory’ element of day-to-day FM practice. Kristiana Greenwood from leading FM software development company FM Innovations comments on IT’s role in the efficiency and management of corporate infrastructure.
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Case Study 2
FMI have just completed a assessment and restructuring of the Holmesglen WSM and Aperture configuration to bring it in line with Holmesglen changing business needs. This project undertaken with Holmesglen personnel and FM consultants Apex FM will result in a completely new naming structure for the organisations physical infrastructure.
This project is now coming to completion which has seen a vast amount of redrafting of all major hospitals and their facilities in the last 4 months. This has meant literally thousands of hours and hundreds of CAD files being produced which has enabled SWAHS to better address the ongoing problem of Capital Charging regime and cost recovery within the NSW Health system.
Victoria University have made a strategic decision to bring in cost charging regime to all campus activities. This has meant updating their spatial management system to assist them in managing this environment and provide all line managers with up to date and real time access to the data that supports the usage regime and the arising costs.
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Latest News
A new initiative from the Australian Government provides funding to assist with the green retro-fitting of existing commercial buildings. The Green Building Fund provides $90 million over four years to help encourage green-retro fitting initiatives, particularly those aimed at improving energy efficiency. Under Stream A of the funding, owners of existing commercial buildings can apply for grants ranging from $50,000 to $500,000. Grants are available for up to 50% of project costs and must be matched by private funds.
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Sustainable Footprint is an energy assessment provider delivering energy, water and transport assessments. They provide advice to assist organisations to create effective sustainable business outcomes. Sustainable Footprint guides organisations to develop a more sustainable footprint for their business operations. A business will benefit in many ways by conducting an Environmental Assessment of sustainability including: reduced operating costs, improved environmental Performance; targeted sustainable efficiency strategies; Sustainable Marketing and importantly creating an informed and Motivated Workforce.
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DLA Phillips Fox Lawyers
Owners of multiple occupancy buildings and places of public entertainment in Victoria have long been familiar with their obligations to monitor, maintain and produce annual compliance reports under the building regulations. However up until now, those regulations only applied to buildings constructed on or after 1 June 1994. As aconsequence of the amended Building Regulations 2006 (Vic), there is now an obligation on all owners of multiple occupancy buildings to prepare an Annual Essential Safety Measures Report. To find out more about this new obligation and how to comply with it read the attached article by lawyers, DLA Phillips Fox.
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DIAMOND ENERGY’S electricity retail arm “Commercial Green” delivers a range of green power options to the commercial sector. Diamond Energy is an Australian renewable energy and low carbon generation company. It specialises in building, owning, operating and retailing electricity. It is a holder of Australian electricity market registrations and licences. Diamond Energy'e recent project is the development and operation of a 1.1MWh biogas generation plant in Tatura, Northern Victoria. A second generation plant at Shepparton is also on target for commissioning in December 2008.
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Breaking FM Innovations News
In response to the recent economic downturn and the current financial crisis, FM Innovations (FMI) is looking to provide solutions for our potential clients to take the pain out of the budget approval process. We understand that the legal and corporate governance requirements of managing infrastructure are still as critical as ever, however many companies are struggling to allocate the finances needed to implement the tools to manage their property effectively.
As a solution, FMI is putting together an Evergreen software rental option which will allow companies to implement and run our Property Works management software solution for as little as $650 per month. However, we are only offering this to a limited number of exclusive companies who have a tight budget.
The first customer to take up the 4.2 install is one of FMI’s longest serving clients Rio Tinto, now housed at 120 Collins Street in Melbourne. The installation was planned by FMI in conjunction with Rio Tinto’s Andrew Steffanatti and their IT group. There were a number of aspects to the installation process but it was down in less than 4 hours and then over the next 24 hours it was monitored and tested by Andrew and the IT team at Rio.
FM Innovations is proud to announce one of the most important releases of new FM and property management software in Australia for the last 2 years. This release of WSMenterprise 4.2 is significant because of its breadth, scope and the incorporation of a fundamental change in FM software deliverables
FM Innovations launched WSM Sustainability Management at the Word Sustainable Building Conference 2008 at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre between Sunday September 21st - Thursday September 25th to a resounding success. The conference focused not just on the topic of new buildings and their construction but on the retro fitting and refurbishments of existing building stock that will not only add significantly to Australia's sustainable building credentials, but will prove that building refurbishments to world leading levels provide commercial returns worthy of attracting large scale investment from private enterprises and from all levels of government.
Towards the end of the conference people were looking at ways they could analyse their current levels of energy/waste/water usage and plan for the future. Around the FM Innovations exhibition booth there were many discussions about how the FM Innovations software will allow you to map your current environmental conditions against current industry benchmarks.
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Congratulations to Zoe Kennedy from Mater, who won the bottle of Johnny Walker Green Label Whiskey in the business card draw. For more information and to see the photo's please click here.
Best Regards,
The Team at FM Innovations and Stokes Perna
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Upcoming Events
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Contact Information
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FM Innovation
Level 4, 455 Bourke Street, Melbourne VIC 3000
Tel: (03) 9600 1646
Fax: (03) 9600 2333
sales@fminnovations.com.au
www.fminnovations.com.au
Stokes Perna
506 Hampton Street
Hampton VIC 3188
Phone: (03) 9521 9611
Fax: (03) 9521 0611
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Some Of Our Clients
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June 2010 / July 2010
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April 2010 / May 2010
FMI releases WSM Version 4.6, we welcome our first WA client, FMI launches on Facebook and Twitter, FMI newsletter.
February 2010 / March 2010
FMI welcomes another new client, FMI launches their new Customer Service Team, FMI newsletter.
December 2009 / January 2010
FMI welcomes a new year and a new client, FMI newsletter, FMI donates money to chairty.
October / November 2009
FMI newsletter, FMI welcomes two new clients, Kador Group and Morton and Morton.
August / September 2009
FMI newsletter, WSM 4.5 release, latest client upgrades, FM articles and much more.
Check again soon for upcoming events!
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Essential Safety Measures
With the release of the Building Regulations 2006 it is now a requirement for all public buildings to have an annual essential safety measures report prepared. Click here for the latest ESM updates.
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