Award Winning Workplace!

Last Wednesday at The Brewery in London, BBC Workplace had a great night out at the Property & Facilities Management (PFM) Awards 2009 - (check out this link for more info and pics). Along with our key partner, Balfour Beatty Workplace (BBW), we swept the board by not only winning the FM Corporate Partner category but also being judged the Overall Winnner for 2009!

The PFM Awards 2009 are amongst the most sought after awards in the facilities management sector. They recognise best practice in partnering in facilities management and support services between service suppliers and their clients, as well as the skills and enterprise of people engaged in this sector. The judges not only look for evidence of a good partnership, but also what the partnership has achieved and how innovative it is.

BBW and BBC Workplace were entered into the Partners in FM category which covers strategic partnerships where a wide range of support and facilities management services are delivered and managed for a large corporate client organisation. Entrants had to demonstrate how the partnership is strategically aligned with the client's business needs and reflected through the supply chain to effectively deliver a broad range of services.

All winners of the ten 'partnership' categories were then considered for the Overall PFM Award that demonstrates excellence in all the judging criteria.

The Corporate Partner award was given in recognition of the way BBW demonstrated how they partnered and strategically aligned with the BBC and reflected this through the supply chain to effectively deliver a broad range of services.

It was interesting to see the judging criteria: 

Partnership - how clients and suppliers work together to achieve the business, property and FM strategy.

Innovation - creative ways of achieving the business, property and FM strategy.

Achievement - movement towards and achievement of business, property and FM goals.

Sustainability - how the partners work towards sustainability objectives within the business, property and FM strategy that benefit the environment, the workforce and the wider community.

Apart from the BBC awards, BBW also picked up lots of other awards on the night - many congratulations to all concerned.

What a remarkable night! It was certainly one of which we can all be proud. It is well deserved, external recognition of all the hard work and effort lots of our colleagues are putting in to make proper partnering a reality. Well done all.

Chris