Latest Project News

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Fantastic and rewarding to have the chance to visit the recently completed £9.8M new dementia friendly Geriactric Assessment Unit at the QMC in Nottingham, for a post handover review of our installation.

Smarter Managed Buildings designed and installed a Schneider Electric EcoStruxure building management system for the GAU, which is an impressive new 24 bed and 4 en-suite isolation ward facility.

Thank you to Arthur Pollard for trusting in SMB to deliver this project for the end user client and the overall project team, Newton Construction and D H Squire Consulting Engineers

Great job by Darren Willis and the whole team at SMB and our sub contractor partners, Gallectric Limited, IPA Controls and Andrawn.

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It’s been a very busy summer for Smarter Managed Buildings and immensely proud of the dedication and technical ability of our team, to deliver a complex laboratory facility control system, for the Nottingham Trent University, at their Clifton Campus.

The Trend system provides close pressure and temperature control to the two storey lab facility including fume cupboard extract, via a combination of central air handling plant, vav and comfort heating/cooling fan coil systems.

SMB have also completed a further project for NTU, at the Brakenhurst campus, with a major refurbishment of their historic Main Hall, for a new conferencing facility.
 

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Welcome to our newest member of the team, Tom Barham, who has joined us as a Trainee Commissioning Engineer.

Tom has recently graduated from Nottingham Trent University, where he has completed a degree in Sports Science and Business Management. 

SMB are excited to be bringing more 'new engineering talent' into our industry and further develop Tom's skills within the field of BMS.

Welcome to the team Tom!

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Steve Barham - Director

LOROS is a charity whose aim is to enhance the quality of life of adult patients with cancer, progressive neurological conditions and end-stage organ failure for whom curative treatment is no longer possible. Patients are treated at the Hospice and in the community based upon clinical need, regardless of background and the ability to pay. LOROS deliver free, high-quality, compassionate care and support to terminally ill patients, their family and carers.

Smarter Managed Buildings are proud to be able to support one of our business partners, Peter Schofield, who will be taking part in the LOROS Great Wall of China Trek 2024, hiking some 36km along the magnificent man-made structure. This will take you over watch towers, mountains and through historic battlement stations that are well off the tourist trail. Peter is aiming to provide over £3,000.00 of fundraising for the organistation.

Good luck Peter!

Darren Willis - Director

Thankfully, the majority of us will never have the experience of waking up on Christmas morning without a single present to open, or the feeling of sheer desperation as a parent when our child asks for a particular gift, only to know that there is no money available.

Unfortunately even in today’s society it is so sad to think that there are those living so close to the poverty line that just putting food on the table on Christmas Day and heat in radiators is all that is achievable.

The Salvation Army do an amazing job each year in raising awareness of this need and run a National Christmas Present Appeal.

My local Salvation Army (for which I am a member) have been involved with this present appeal for some time now and have provided thousands of presents to children over the years.
This year they have been inundated with referrals but were particularly short on gifts for boys in the 13+ age category.

Smarter Managed Buildings were pleased to have been able to provide 25 Mitre footballs to help The Salvation Army present appeal this year.

Just one small thing we can do to brighten someone’s Christmas.

#christmas2023 #salvationarmy #merrychristmas 

To assure the leadership team stay focused and driven towards our team and customer experience, we have been busy over the last few months, with an investment in the 'No Bullsh*t Leadership course.' 

This new leadership course, run by AAR marketing, has been created to complement the recent books published by business expert, Chris Hirst.

All of the course modules include experience and presentations from Chris.and the AAR team, including live events with the business expert and author.

It has been an enlightning experience and it was great to realise that many features of our culture at SMB aligned with the business practices and models discussed.

We are proud to announce that Darren Willis and Steve Barham both succesfully completed the 8 module course with accreditation.

October has seen our first annual audit of our ISO9001 and ISO14001 management systems, standards and guidelines.

We welcome the professionalism and authority of our management partner, Citation ISO Certification, who spent two full days auditing all of our business systems.

Citation assure that our culture and the way we serve our customers at SMB is documented and understood by the team.

We are proud to announce that after two days of full on auditing of all of our systems, we have maintained our ISO9001 / ISO14001 status until the next audit.

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Smarter Managed Buildings were proud to offer some support to one of our local community brass bands, the Ratby Co-operative Brass Band, with their attendance at the National Brass Band Finals, held in the Royal Albert Hall on the 21 October 2023.

The Ratby band were supporting the Midlands region at the national musical competition, after being awarded second place in the regional midlands qualifying competition earlier in the year.

The competition sees 20 of the top bands across Great Britain, complete for the glory of being the National Champions.

Whilst Ratby did not make it to the top prize, they pulled of a credible performance on stage.

Smarter Managed Buildings were proud to be invited to attend the highly anticipated Trend IQ5 system launch, at the Mayfair hotel in London.

It was great to see a manufacturer innovating whilst protecting past customer investment, by developing IQ5 with leading integration and cyber security features, whilst protecting past investment by offering backward compatability with earlier product generations, over 40 years of the Trend journey.  

We were very grateful for the invitation and hospitality offered to our team.

Thank you to Ross Baxter, Mark Bent, Carol Ann Morley and all the team at Trend