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Embarking on a Sustainable Journey: My Early Experiences at LCMB

I began my journey at LCMB in May 2023 after graduating from the University of Reading, having completed my Masters in Environmental Management. Starting a new job can be both exhilarating and nerve-wracking. However, the onboarding process and introductions into the office environment were smooth sailing, and I felt immediately welcomed and well-informed. I began

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My LCMB Experience: Matt Bridges

Once I graduated from Leeds Beckett University, I had difficulty finding a role offering the development and support I sought after, to bridge the gap between education and the world of work. I applied for the Junior Consultant role at LCMB in January 2023, and the recruitment process was an immediate green flag. I think

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How Facilities Management will deliver a smaller, better, and greener Government

Our clients at LCMB, and others within the FM sector appreciate how the quality of FM services can impact productivity, sustainability, and health and safety. Facilities Management teams keep our people and buildings safe and efficient, often with guidance and methods governed by law. However, until November 2022, the UK Government have never had their

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How do we cope with the aftermath of “Trussonomics”?

The UK government’s failed experiment with “Trussonomics” over the last few weeks, has seen us go from a dash for growth with major tax giveaways to warnings. Our new Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has said that taxes will rise, and public spending needs to reduce. Now the PM has gone. We are left with rising interest

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Phew, what a scorcher!

Whatever you can say about Boris’s reign as Prime Minister, he was anything but boring. We are down to two candidates in the race to succeed him, one of whom will be declared PM by 5th September. Once elected we’ll get a clearer view of the direction of policy and the impact it will have

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Should your organisation be investing in indoor air quality sensors?

Partly accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, many clients have now invested in air quality monitoring technology and we’re seeing an increasing range of use-cases. In higher education there has been a big focus on CO2 monitoring at part of the COVID-19 response and implementing guidance from the HSE – find out more and join in

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Fall back in love with your office

Over the past couple of months along with managing projects for our clients, we’ve been busy refurbing our new office. This is a bit of a change for LCMB as we were able to be the client, which doesn’t happen very often! We had our own internal project management team who managed the fit-out, contractors

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How to improve asset management in the residential sector

Prior to joining LCMB, I worked in the Residential Housing Sector for 10 years. The last eight of which were focused on the retirement sector, where I was responsible for property and asset management across a national, and very varied portfolio. Ranging from new build developments to Grade II* listed buildings all posing very different

How to be Agile, Adapt and Attractive in 2022

Our latest webinar covering The Trends Destined To Impact Workplaces in 2022 featured guests Rob Harris, Chair of the British Council for Offices (BCO) Technical Committee and Steve Kellett, Sustainability Manager for the property developer Argent LLP. During the webinar, Steve and Rob shared their insights on the following five trends that are already impacting businesses,

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Net Zero Is Changing The Way We Do Business

Net Zero this, Climate Change that, Sustainability the other … There’s no denying it, these are buzzwords that are making us sit up and listen. Climate change is headline news again fuelled by forest fires in Turkey, Greece, and America. Greta Thunberg is a teenage activist challenging world leaders to take immediate action. David Attenborough

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How to manage a Safe and Productive Return to Work

A difference of opinions has been evident since the majority of COVID-19 restrictions were lifted on 19 July. Many people are relieved, keen to get out and about and back to work, while others remain anxious. Then there are those in between who are happy to have more freedom but remain optimistically cautious. With the continual

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Building Back A Better Future In The Workplace

As the Government start lifting restrictions, finally we can start returning to the workplace. But let’s not return to our old ways. We need a new route to safe and sustainable working environments. And that’s something we are passionate about at LCMB. Do you know exactly how many of your employees are returning to work full-

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Net Zero Carbon: How We Achieve It?

By now, you will have likely heard the terms “net zero” and “carbon neutrality”. But what do they mean? Net zero refers to balancing the amount of emitted greenhouse gases with the equivalent emissions that are either offset or sequestered. Carbon neutrality means having a balance between emitting carbon and absorbing carbon from the atmosphere

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COVID-19 – Emerging from devastation into a safe, smarter future

2021 has begun with a swing back to extremely high levels of COVID-19 transmissions and tragically more deaths. With daily news about the terrible strain the NHS is under, we are back in a full National Lockdown. This upsurge in cases is likely to continue for another few weeks before peaking. Things will become even

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Our look to the year ahead

Looking back on 2020, I ask myself who could have predicted the monumental events that we have seen. I certainly didn’t. No-one foresaw that the COVID-19 disease would turn into a global pandemic when we first heard reports of it emerging in Wuhan in January of this year. At the time of writing, only 11

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Keep on planning for the worst and hoping for the best!

In last month’s blog, I suggested that the old military adage ‘Plan for the worst and hope for the best’ was a sensible approach to adopt as we go into our difficult winter and tough 2021. Since then, England is enduring the imposition of a second lockdown because of the unabated spread of COVID-19. It’s

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Improving Productivity In the Workplace

#Productivity in the workplace is often mistaken for ‘how much work can you squeeze out of your employees in smallest amount of time’ when in fact it is much deeper than that. Productivity is not about the quantity of work your employees complete but more about the quality. Encouraging the workforce to be in a

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Productivity is well being (and vice versa!)

Whilst browsing social media recently, I found myself reading the Siemen’s remote working policy which I think is a masterpiece!  A policy which encourages more flexible working does not seem all that different, but their focus on Outcomes and Trust makes it really special. the relevant clause states: “The basis for this forward-looking working model

Managing our health, well-being, and performance in a COVID world

At LCMB, we have been consistently working on optimising offices and workplaces for health, well-being, and performance for the last few years. This has been driven by our original research which examined the impact of the indoor environment quality on our performance and productivity. The Workplace Opportunity  Our research has found that indoor environmental conditions

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The Office is Dead, Long Live the Office

The UK Office of National Statistics reported that in April 2020, 49.2% of the working adult population were working at home as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. For many this change to homeworking was welcome and many have predicted that after this crisis is over, the office set-up as we know will be dead.

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