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Just returned from a tour to Dubai and Abu Dhabi, CEO Stan Mitchell has been busy bringing the benefits of ISO 41001 to an ever-increasing circle of companies. Following a recent presentation to the management team at the Adeeb Group, Stan covered off key themes in...
read moreAre you keeping pace with rapid changes in the built environment?
Meeting of like minds - The NFMT 2019 conference in Baltimore has just wound up. For those of you not lucky enough to attend or just too swept up in the event to digest the wealth of industry insights available to delegates, take 20 mins on your way home today to...
read moreKEY FM’s Knowledge Trust Partner wins Guardian “sustainable buildings that inspire” award
Congratulations to UWS Lanarkshire – a sustainable campus for sustainable minds The campus is designed to revolutionise students’ higher education experience through recognising that physical and digital spaces both shape learning. Traditional lecture halls and...
read moreCEO of KEY Facilities Management International speaks in Baltimore
Stan Mitchell brought a touch of Scottish charm to Baltimore this week where he was a guest speaker at The National Facilities Management event (#NFMT), a flagship FM show. NFMT Guest Speaker This leading conference recognises the importance of learning from peers and...
read moreRaising FM standards worldwide with ISO 41014
Venue: BSI Headquarters - London UKThis week work continued on a new ISO standard at a meeting of contributors from 9 different countries, chaired by our CEO Stan Mitchell. ISO 41014, Facility management - Development of facility management strategy This new standard...
read moreKEY FM pioneering partnership with Betty Blocks
Key FM CIO Gordon Mitchell on Stage @BBoS2019The 14th of March, in the buzzing tech town of Alkmaar, saw a meeting of like-minded bright young things from across an impressive range of industries from insurance to logistics. Developers and entrepreneurs alike were...
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Here at Key FM, our approach to FM l operates with 5 clear definitions, which we term the 5 virtues of True FM. These recognise that optimal performance hinges on experienced and independent consultancy, and solutions that are innovative, comprehensive and adaptive....
read moreInformation, Us and True FM
Never before have we had such a rapid change to our lives as the current period of human experience. In 1970 Microsoft was an unknown term, Apple was a fruit, Amazon was our world’s largest river and Alphabet was on our primary school walls. Fast forward to today...
read moreKEY-managed Nucleus is the best building in Scotland!
KEY-managed Nucleus is the best building in Scotland! The national archive for the civil nuclear industry in Wick has won the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland (RIAS) Andrew Doolan Best Building in Scotland Award 2018, and the Royal Institute of British...
read moreSystem Addict: Stan Mitchell talks FM Standards
Stan Mitchell discusses the aspirations behind the first international FM Standards, including Management Systems Standard ISO 41001, telling Bradford Keen from FM World why it has been a labour of love.
read more10 Top Tips for Contract Mobilization in Developing Countries
A poor Facilities Management (FM) contract mobilization is a failure from which an organisation might never recover. In emerging markets, where concepts and knowledge of FM are immature or non-existent, the risk is all the greater. Earlier this month, KEY convened a...
read moreProfile of Walid Barhoumi: Middle East Programme Manager for KEY FM International
Today we’re in Tunis to get to know Walid Barhoumi, a Programme Manager instrumental to the success of KEY Facilities Management International (KEY FMI) in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Joining the conversation is Jim Yorston, KEY FMI’s Chief...
read moreConsolidating KEYSTONE: the next generation of workplace digitisation
We finally nailed down our CIO, Gordon Mitchell, for a sneak preview of KEYSTONE, the next-generation of workplace digitisation. Hi Gordon, so tell us a bit about the background to KEYSTONE? For many years our Innovation Unit has been working on how to resolve key...
read moreISO 41000: Foundation for a New Era of Facility Management
A video about how synergies between the evolution of FM standardisation and of digital technologies are driving a genuinely new era of Facility Management. The presentation is by KEY CEO, Stan Mitchell, and was recorded at the European Facilities Management...
read moreCo-creating the Digital Workplace for Superior Efficiency and Experience
A presentation about the digital workplace by Stuart Ruthven, Business Projects Manager for Key Facilities Management International. The presentation took place at the IoT Scotland Meetup on June 28 2018, and in it Stuart talks about KEY's exploration and application...
read more10 Top Tips for unifying FM Organisations
This article sets out 10 Tips for Facility Managers faced with unifying FM organisations into a single culture. They surfaced in an interview with Michalis Roussos last week about his new role as KEY's Senior Operations and Business Development Manager. During...
read moreMeeting Michalis Roussos: KEY’s new Senior Operations & Business Development Manager
Today, we're in Athens to welcome and get to know Michalis Roussos, new Senior Operations and Business Development Manager for KEY Facilities Management (FM) International. To start with, Michalis, it would be great to learn something about you, and your background...
read moreKEY CEO receives Honorary Membership of Polish Facility Management Council
On a recent visit to Poland, KEY CEO, Stan Mitchell, was proud to receive an Honorary Membership of the Polish Facility Management Council. Stan was running a workshop for the Polish Facility Management (FM) Council on the new ISO 41000 standards for FM. The...
read morePhil Clayton, KEY FM Bulgaria Lead, on EFMC 2018 & local Opportunities
Ahead of EFMC 2018, we are in Sofia for a conversation with our KEY FM Bulgaria lead, Phil Clayton, and COO, Jim Yorston. Our aim is to learn from Phil about the conference, the energetic Bulgarian context, and the exciting opportunities its current 'revival'...
read moreWorld FM Day 2018 – What’s the best thing about being a Facilities Manager?
To celebrate World FM Day, we asked our International FM team 'what's the best thing about being a Facilities Manager?' Here are some of the best bits from the responses: “Variety! No two days are ever the same - there’s never a dull day in FM!” Stewart Lackie,...
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