FM: Are clients smart enough to adopt smart building technology?

摘要

"Everybody is trying to get as much out of their buildings as they can - Brexit or no Brexit," says Skanska's facilities services business managing director Katy Dowding. Clients are more likely to want to squeeze their assets post-referendum in sectors such as commercial offices, starts for which halved in the three months to August this year. But the FM sector has been largely insulated from economic turbulence, its top firms making stronger margins than their construction counterparts - the top 10 have an average operating margin of 4.3 per cent, compared with a pre-tax margin of 1.2 per cent among the top 25 contractors in the industry as a whole.