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On 28 November 2013 RICS launched its ‘Think Strategic’ campaign, which will provide free news and advice from industry experts directly to Facilities Management (FM) practitioners. The campaign is designed to encourage FM professionals to think and act more strategically by giving them the tools they need to develop an FM plan that will directly feed into the wider corporate objec-tives of their organisations and clients. As a result, FM leaders will be able to…

The new ‘Guidelines for the design and application of green roof systems’ by Dr Sam C M Hui has been pub-lished by the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE). In his foreword, Dr Hui describes how many cities in the world are facing problems of Urban Heat Islands (UHIs) and a lack of green space. Among growing concerns about environmental issues and the need to promote sus-tainable urban environments, green roofs have recently attracted…

Pendle Council’s recycling materials have been recognised for being clear and well written in the annual Plain English Awards. Judges for the Plain English Campaign praised the Council’s annual refuse and recycling calendar leaflet and a special recycling edition of the Council newspaper Pendle News. Plain English Campaign founder and director Chrissie Maher said: “Although recycling is not the most exciting of subjects, staff at Pendle Council have produced material that is well written and…