News on 1 November 2000

The beams of the historic Porter Tun room at London’s Brewery echoed to applause for the winners of the 2000 Premises & Facilities Management Partnership Awards last night.

Top honours went to the partnership of Stiell Facilities and Abbey National which won both the Facilities Management category and the overall Partnership Award. The judges said: "Both parties clearly demonstrated that they were working in full partnership and developed a range of strategies to enhance their partnership."

Winners of the overall PFM Partnership Awards last night. Left to right: John Wilson of Abbey National; PFM Editor Jane Fenwick and Gordon Rowan of Stiell

Stiell has provided a full facilities service to Abbey National’s head office properties in Scotland since 1995, including all mechanical and electrical maintenance, fabric maintenance and repairs, help desk services, space planning, sub-contractor management and project management of new works.

The company has subsequently been awarded the refit of Abbey National’s Retail and Banking Centre headquarters and the facilities management of this building and Abbey National’s other main properties in Glasgow and the North of England.

Other category award winners were:

Single Service– TNT Mail Services with Lloyds TSB
Multi-service – Jones Lang La Salle with Bank of America
Public Sector – MASS Systems with the University of Edinburgh
Environmental Management – George S Hall with the Automobile Association
Relocation – Harrow Green Group with the BBC
Working Environment – The Interiors Group with Intelligent Environments
Health & Safety – MacLellan International with DuPont
Trillium had triple success, winning both the Training and Marketing sections as well as nominating the Young Manager of the Year – Leah Ganpatsingh.

Click here to read full details of the PFM Partnership Awards programme