Welcome to another episode of Let's Talk Facilities. Aaron and Ben take the podcast outside for the first time, walking the University of Melbourne campus with Andrew Moore, Workspace Strategy and Operations Manager for the Faculty of Engineering and IT.

Managing 15 buildings that span from 1899 to 2021, Andrew's portfolio is a compressed version of everything the FM industry is grappling with at once. From 1950s buildings with no elevators and bathrooms on alternate floors, to a 2021 building that holds multiple Green Star ratings and was the first academic workplace in the world to achieve WELL certification, Andrew talks through what it actually looks like to manage spaces you are committed to for life. He shares how a one-million-data-point observation study shaped the decision to move to flexible working, what it takes to keep tens of thousands of people moving through a campus every day with minimal disruption, and why the buildings you inherit are often more interesting than the ones you build from scratch.

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