Award Categories

Award Categories for 2009

BIFM - PFM Partnership Awards - EuroFM Awards

 

BIFM Award Categories 2009 - Grosvenor House Hotel on Monday 12th October 2009
The Award categories were refined for 2009 and have been split into 5 main themes:

1. Innovation based awards:
Innovation in Technology and Systems/Services
Innovation in Products
Innovation in Customer Service

2. Project based awards:
FM Excellence in a Major Project
Impact on Organisation & Workplace

3.Team awards:
Corporate Occupiers Excellence – in FM Team
Property Investors Excellence – in FM Team
Public Sector Excellence – in FM Team

4. Individual awards:
FM of the Year
Overall FM Industry Impact

5..Additional awards for 2009
Communications and Marketing
Sustainability and Environmental Impact


PFM Awards 2009 - Wednesday 11th November 2009 at The Brewery, London EC1
The PFM Awards 2009, now in their 16th year, 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 award catergories have again been revised and updated for 2009. There are 15 awards, including the i-FM e-business Award.

1. Partners in FM – corporate
REVISED: Strategic partnerships where a wide range of support and facilities management services are delivered and managed for a large corporate client organisation. Entrants should 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.

2. Partners in FM – SME organisations
NEW: Partnerships between organisations where the client and/or facilities management suppliers are SME* organisations providing a range of support services to achieve the client’s strategic business objectives. (EU definition of SME: employs less than 250 people, annual turnover is not over €50m and/or annual balance sheet total is not over €43m)

3. Partners in Healthcare FM
NEW: Partnerships between NHS and private healthcare organisations, and FM suppliers to deliver a range of safe, efficient and effective support and facilities management services in a caring environment to staff, patients and the wider community.

4. Partners in Education FM
NEW: Partnerships in the public and private education sector with support services and facilities management suppliers to support the staff, students and wider community in the pursuit of educational achievement and excellence in facilites ranging from nursery schools to universities.

5. Partners in Public Access Facilities
NEW: Partnerships between public and private sector organisations and facilities management suppliers in a wide variety of facilities that are open to the public in whole or in part, including museums, art galleries, libraries, sports stadia, theatres, events and shopping centres.

6. Partners in Corporate Social Responsibility
NEW: Partnerships between public or private organisations and their facilities management supplier/s in which the latter play a significant role in directing and meeting the objectives of the client’s Corporate Social Responsibility strategies in the facilities they occupy and manage, and in the wider community.

7. Partners in Expert Services
UNCHANGED: Partnerships between a public or private sector organisation and a supplier with specific skills, technical expertise or experience, such as FM consultancy, IT support, reprographics, software development, relocation management, mail and courier services, etc.

8. Partners in Business Change
UNCHANGED: Partnerships between clients and support services and facilities management suppliers to facilitate change in business ethos to a flexible and responsive working environment typically through relocation strategies, workplace refurbishment and interior design, and a business and property strategy leading to a seamless transition to an enriched business.

9. Partnering Individual Excellence
UNCHANGED: The successful delivery of FM services depends in a large part on those people at the ‘client interface’. Finalists in the PFM Awards are invited to nominate one member of their operational facilities team who has demonstrated an exceptional contribution to the success of the partnership through their enthusiasm and effectiveness as an operative or supervisor of a small team of staff. (see note 1 below).

10. Partners for Skills Development in FM
REVISED: Partnerships between client FM departments and/or FM companies and training and education organisations to develop the competencies and skills of the FM team from apprentice level to senior management.

11. e-Business Award
UNCHANGED: This Award recognises how the sector uses new technologies to improve business processes and performance in FM and property related activities. Entrants can be working in partnership with expert partners or using in house resources on initiatives to exploit new technologies including websites, company intranets and customer extranets, e-procurement, desktop services, online PR and marketing campaigns, project websites, online benchmarking and other information services in FM, property or related areas. (see note 2 below).

12. FMA Young Manager of the Year
UNCHANGED: Presented and judged by the Facilities Management Association, the FMA Young Manager of the Year Award recognises management potential among facilities professionals at the beginning of their careers in FM.

13. Strategic Property Outsourcing Award
NEW: Sponsored by MITIE, this new Award is for partnerships between public and private sector organisations and facilities management providers fulfilling a business strategy to outsource both the property and facilities management of a client’s large occupied and/or investment estate.

14. Lifetime Achievement in FM Award
NEW: Nominations are invited for a property and facilities professional who throughout his/her career as the client and/or FM supplier has demonstrated best practice in fulfilling strategic business objectives through the effective delivery of property and FM, and who has shown leadership in the FM community. (See note 4 below).

15. Overall PFM Awards 2009
UNCHANGED: Winners of the ‘partnership’ categories will be automatically considered for the Overall PFM Award that demonstrates excellence in all the judging criteria.


EuroFM Awards 2009
There are four main awards:

1. Partners Across Borders
2. FM Student of the Year
3. European FM Researcher
4. European FM of the Year

Entries in all categories in the European FM Awards should demonstrate best practice and excellence in European facilities management. Entries should also be able to demonstrate the challenge for facilities management of the national, cultural, regulatory and language differences across the European region.

The language of these Awards in English, the common language of FM in Europe. Entrants should provide written material in English and be prepared to be interviewed in English.

Partners Across Borders Award:
Providing facilities management services across European national boundaries presents challenges of different languages, cultures, currencies, regulations, etc. This Award will recognise excellence in delivering facilities management services to an organisation located in more than one European country demonstrated by:

    * Partnership between a corporate client and service provider/s
    * The achievements of the partnership towards agreed goals
    * The innovation introduced to deliver facilities management consistently and effectively across European boundaries
    * Entries should be submitted jointly by all partners

How to enter: provide a written description of not more than 1500 words describing the FM partnership. The entry can include photographs of the client site and relevant aspects of the services provided. The entry must be accompanied by a completed application form and emailed to eurofmawards@imlgroup.co.uk

European FM Student of the Year Award:
Today’s FM students in educational institutions across Europe are the future in European facilities management. This Award recognises their technical knowledge, international perspective and personality. Entries are open to undergraduate students at the end of their studies or in employment in the year of their graduation, or graduate students with some previous FM experience, studying in educational institutions in member countries of EuroFM. No entrant should be more than 30 years of age. Entrants must be nominated by their head of department or a member of EuroFM.

European FM Researcher of the Year
This award will recognise the value of research being undertaken across Europe. The research must address the EuroFM research agenda and contribute to its overall objectives to ‘advance knowledge in FM and promote its effective application in practice and education’. Entrants should be able to show that their research has a European perspective by using data from more than one country or that it has European applications. The research should show achievable results be innovative and robust in its research methods.

Entrants should be researchers at EuroFM member institutions, or conducting research produced or sponsored by EuroFM and its corporate and institutional members, and be nominated by a department head or EuroFM national association member.

European FM of the Year
Organisations that conduct business across international boundaries in Europe, and occupy property in more than one European country, are increasingly relying on experienced facilities management professionals to support their business activities. This award for European FM of the Year will recognise the experience, technical expertise and management skills of facilities managers who have responsibility for managing property estates and support services across Europe for their employer or for clients.

Candidates should be prepared to demonstrate their breadth of management experience in an international environment including language skills, their understanding of cultural, technical and business differences across the countries for which he/she has responsibilities, and how they manage their organisation’s business in this complex environment.

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