Attention all facility managers – did you know there was an Australian publication dedicated entirely to your profession?

Facility Management (FM) Media is Australia's leading independent website serving the facility management industry. From security to technology, HVAC, energy efficiency and waste management, cleaning and fire safety, FM Media covers all the latest news, events and innovations relevant to you.

 

FM Media celebrates the people who manage buildings that cater to the complex needs of the humans who inhabit them. If you’re seeking a publication that asks the big questions about how facility managers and other industry figures can safeguard a healthy and resilient future for the industry, look no further than FM Media.

Recent investigations on our platform include understanding the power of well-designed community facilities to transcend cultural and social boundaries, unlocking the power of waste reuse through discussions with TerraCycle CEO Tom Szaky and NoMoreButts founder Shannon Mead, how the Greater Los Angeles Wildfires narrated a cautionary tale for facilities management, the pearls and perils of cybersecurity and many more discussion areas.

We have profiled facilities managers from renowned cultural institutions and high-profile public buildings, including the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Melbourne Airport, Queensland Government House, The Forum, National Maritime Museum, the Australian War Memorial, the Victoria State Library, Old Melbourne Gaol, and The Tivoli.

We remain astute and alert of industry trends including smart building technologies, the inescapable beast that is AI, rebounds in the retail sales sector and office occupancy rates, industry events like ARBS, Fire Australia, Sydney Build Expo and the ISSA Cleaning and Hygiene Expo, innovations in cleaning and waste management and the burgeoning threat of cyber blackouts and climate change.

 

Shattering ill-assumptions of the industry

Many facilities managers emphasise the overlooked and underappreciated multi-faceted nature of the profession.

Medibank commercial facilities manager Jake Ramanayake is committed to debunking the assumption that his profession is one-dimensional and confined to merely “fixing things when they break.”

“Every job or project, no matter how big or small, is important,” says Art Gallery of New South Wales head of facilities, heritage and sustainability, Dermot Rodwell.

Government House Queensland is an exemplar in a multi-purpose facility, capitalising on every moving part to operate an efficiently managed space that gives back to the community and repays the planet. Government House may come out on top as the busiest facility ever platformed on FM Media.

“This last financial year, there were 190 receptions and afternoon teas at Government House,” acting facilities manager and sole Sergeant-at-Arms of Government House Queensland Ty Beale told us last October.

FM Media is honoured to celebrate the dynamic, multidisciplinary and critically important facility management industry and uplift the people responsible for the performance, efficiency and function of the Australian built environment.

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