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Average audio length:
44 minutes
Guest interviews
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English
Australia
46 episodes
since Feb. 5, 2025
episodic

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Most people walk through an automatic door and never think about what is inside it. Most FMs inherit one and never get told what it costs to keep it working. Aaron and Ben sit down with Nathan Clarke and Brendan Herbert from Tormax to talk about what automatic doors actually involve, what FMs are r…

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Most buildings get managed. The best ones get cared for. Aaron and Ben sit down with Rick O'Connor from Rise Facilities to talk about what running a strata building well actually looks like, why the relationship between a building manager and the people who live there is the thing that makes or bre…
The office used to be somewhere people went because they had to. Now it has to be somewhere people actually want to be. Aaron and Ben sit down with Lisa Mhaya, Partner and Head of Workplace at Knight Frank, to talk about what it takes to create that kind of workplace. The buildings getting it right…
Compliance is the bare minimum. Real safety is something else entirely. In this episode, Aaron takes a walking tour of the Victorian Pride Centre with Tyler Beck, the person behind the building's day-to-day operations. Tyler shares the thinking behind the centre's design and how that same thinking …
No one thinks about HVAC until something breaks down. By then, the bill can run into the millions.In this episode, Aaron and Ben sit down with Juan Castro from Beaver Williams to unpack why mechanical services, despite making up 20 to 25 percent of a building's total cost, remain one of the most ov…
A fire door only works if it's closed. Leave it open, and you've turned a safety system into nothing at all. In this episode, Aaron and Ben sit down with Rob Broadhead, Director of 2020 Fire Protection, to unpack what fire compliance actually means for Australian facility managers. Rob breaks down …
Most facility managers can tell you the temperature and humidity in their building right now. Almost none can tell you the CO2 levels because in Australia, there's currently no mandated indoor air quality monitoring at all. In this episode, Aaron and Nick sit down with Doctor Lidia Morawska, one of…
Most commercial buildings are being maintained on a schedule and nobody questions it because that's how it's always been done.In this episode, Aaron and Ben sit down with Wissam Salama, Managing Director of Guardian Mechanical Services, to talk about what building optimisation actually looks like i…
Having a plan on paper is not the same as being ready. Most buildings find that out the hard way.Aaron and Nick sit down with David Gilmore from Evac Services to talk about what genuine emergency planning looks like in practice, how to run drills that actually prepare people and why life safety is …
Every FM wants to sleep at night knowing the building is in good hands. Getting there starts with who you put on the job. Aaron Kelly and Ben Young sit down with Jimmy House and and Jake Bray from Prime Maintenance Projects to talk about what a great service provider relationship looks like and wh…
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