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News Release from: Chartered Institute of Building [CIOB] | Subject: Building Performance and Prop IT events
Edited by the Buildingtalk Editorial
Team on 30 August 2005
Improving workplace productivity and
asset value
Building Performance and Prop IT events to look at how to design, construct and manage better buildings for better profits and productivity.
At this year's Building Performance and Prop IT events (Olympia, London from 5-6 October 2005), senior figures from the UK construction, FM and property industries will be gathering once again to look at how to design, construct and manage better buildings for better profits and productivity Building Performance is the UK's only forum set up to help them find new ideas and solutions to better design, build and refurbish more efficient and profitable buildings
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 12 Mar 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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The Best Performance Club - a new invitation only club with the most senior 2000 owners, developers, architects, surveyors, contractors, FMs and end users who have taken up the charge of better building performance for the future.
Their launch conference and networking sessions will be at this year's event.
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Over 80 free hands on seminars and strategic conference sessions covering topics such as:.
* FM and sustainability - the best way forward.
* Design and Build - making long term choices for long term profits.
* Delivering a more profitable property portfolio.
* The carrot and stick - impacts of current legislation on building methods.
* How to create productive offices - and then evaluate them.
* Building security - best practice, technology and ROI.
* Can intelligent buildings pay dividends?.
* Making PFI partnerships work.
* Energy efficient strategies for the whole lifecycle.
Speakers at the conference, which is free to attend (visit www.building-performance.co.uk to register), include Tim Caiger, Property Director at Oracle, Mike Bevan, Director of Arup, Niall McClure, Director at Alfred McAlpine and Peter Cunningham, Commercial Director of Constructing Excellence.
See the web for the full programme.
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Over 80 exhibitors launching new products and services including O2, Alfred McAlpine, Acuity, Gifford, Manhattan, FSI, Tribal Asset Management, Broadgate Estates, Reliance Integrated Services, Vodafone, Yardi Systems, Schneider Electric, Orange, Arup.
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A host of industry-led features including the FMA Pavilion showcasing the latest TFM offerings from ten of the biggest TFM companies.
Plus, the COMIT Hub and free seminars showing how mobile technology can best be used to drive down costs and boost efficiencies.
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This year's event is again sponsored by the leading bodies in the property industry and visitors will be able to pick up information about many of them at the event and in the conference including: RIBA, Construction Clients Group, Constructing Excellence, British Council for Offices, British Property Federation, RICS, COMIT Intelligent Building Group, Chartered Institute of Building, FMA, IEE.
For further information and to register for free tickets, visit www.building-performance.co.uk Source: Building Performance.
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