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EFM and PKL an Award Winning Team
Logistics management specialists EFM and PKL Food Service took two PFM (Premises & Facilities Management) Awards away at the ceremony this month, recognising their incredible work at the Melbourne Commonwealth Games 2006. This year, marked the 20th anniversary of the PFM Awards, which were held at The Brewery in the City of London.
EFM and PKL Foodservice won a brand new award for 2006 – called ‘Partners in Sports Facilities Management’. The category was introduced for the first time, in recognition of the importance that excellent facilities management delivery will play in the London Olympic Games in 2012.
The award was given to EFM and PKL for their management of an intricate and time sensitive project – the installation of temporary kitchens to serve 20,000 meals per day to athletes and staff at the 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games. All the equipment had to be adapted to meet Australian regulations and was shipped in over 50 containers with 200-300 items of catering equipment loaded into each. Both companies worked closely together from the tendering stage through to the final delivery of the project, working to extremely tight deadlines and with highly restrictive site conditions in Melbourne.
The other two finalists for the Partners in Sports Facilities Management award category this year were TNT Sameday with London Marathon and Leisure Connection with Linetum (Uttlesford) Uttlesford Leisure and Uttlesford DC.
The 2006 PFM Awards culminated in the award of the ‘Overall PFM Winner 2006’, which was also awarded to EFM and PKL.
“It was the biggest surprise to both of us to win this prestigious award for the first time it has been introduced to PFM,” said Lisa Ryan, director of EFM, “so to go on to win the overall winner award, with the kind of industry names that we were up against, was the icing on the cake!”
Peter Schad, director of PKL commented: “PKL are working together with EFM again in Qatar at the 2006 Asian Games in December and once again the partnership is enabling us to deliver the kind of top level service that is expected in our industry. We look forward to working on London 2012!”
The Awards recognise the very best in the business of facilities management, with an extremely high standard of entrants from all the leading names in the industry. The entrants were required to demonstrate their leading edge in their field of expertise to a panel of expert judges, with a particularly strong emphasis on partnership between companies. Finalists were shortlisted in each category and each successful company or partnership was visited by the judges for a day of presentation and questions and answers.
Other categories for this year’s fiercely contested awards included ‘Partners in Sustainability’, ‘FMA Young Manager of the Year’, ‘E-business Award’, ‘Business Innovation Award’ and ‘Partners in Facilities Management’.
20th November 2006
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