Happy New Year

Welcome to 2010

Team NJW are entering the New Year with optimism and energy with a stronger Technology and Workspace service offering.

Not many organisations will be sad to kiss goodbye to 2009, a year which heralded a very challanging environment which will be remembered for the recesion, project freeze, cost cuts, staff reductions and the general reduction of professional services.

Many companies are also in the midst of Globalisation or rationalisation and are encountering new challenges whilst still trying to maintain business as usual activities and staff moral.

NJW Top Hat Portals have proven invaluable for organisations in every industry sector, such as Pfizer and British Airways, as they have had to manage these transitions and increase control over capital project spend.

NJW have also used the Top Hat Portals within the Public Sector by automating workplace audits and Space Planning activities, whilst providing staff awareness portals with online news feeds. Communication and awareness for staff is becoming an increasingly essential activity when companies are in a period of transition.

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We can help you improve your FM Solutions

NJW have evolved over many years and have a great understanding of your Property or Facility Management operations in terms of Integrated Workplace Management Solutions or FM business processes.

If you are not getting the essential Business Information from your departmental processes, service providers or operational databases, we can offer you a non obligatory site visit or mini workshop to offer an independent set of steps to correct the situation

NJW have a unique toolkit of ideas and proven methods which are based on a foundation of success.

If you require a Property database with a Strategic master planning slant, we can help advise you.

If you need a utilisation survey of your current space, we can show you a roadmap of the steps to audit your current space and the steps to implement change including detailed planning, interior design, fit out, relocation management and customer satisfaction.

If you need a flexible online Space planning service or move management update swat team.

If you need Strategic Master Planning support.

If you require Web based analytics.

If you need as Asset audit, building survey or a CAD/CAFM Engineer for a project.

Contact Nigel Warrick on 01488 686276 or 07973 540674

Sheffield College Utilising Archibus & NJW

Looking to the Future

Sheffield City College is currently undergoing an exciting project. Started in 2007, the former Castle College site has been undergoing redevelopment and transformation to create a modern and inspiring new building. The new campus will be the very first purpose-built vocational college in the region.

Modern technologies have been used to create workshops and classrooms, which will be equipped with industry standard equipment to further ensure that the learners are exposed to relevant and robust teaching and learning.

An environmentally friendly approach has been taken from the start of this project. Sheffield City College is ideally placed for public transport; plans are being developed for a rain water recycling system and some of the flat roof areas will be turfed and used as a garden.

The building will have solar panels and wind turbines on the main roof, generating almost a third of the buildings electricity supply. The grounds will be landscaped and will include an environmentally friendly pond.

The new build is scheduled to be complete in March 2010 and the NJW team are busy updating the existing College CAD/CAFM Solution Archibus/FM to add the new campus from Architect CAD drawings, define and catalog the space whilst also archiving off the dilapidated old campus buildings into a archived project database.

NJW have also initiated an evaluation Top Hat Portal to provide the ultimate Web based Property and Archibus data mining reporting mechanism. The Portal enables the College to have google map drill downs, tailored building pages for KPi's and independent access or data population for College administrators or engineers.

The NJW Creative Director, Mike Vince will design a 'look & feel' which is unique and modern to be delivered in line with the new impressive College Campus. The Estate Department will not only be able to have Space Management dashboards but also be able to advertise their services, send newsletters and generally communicate online through the tailored Portal hyperlinked to the College intranet.

NJW will incubate the entire solution through the NJW Data centre prior to full implementation.

Hello to Paul Dempsey

Starting the New Year Running

Paul has joined NJW to lead the NJW Strategy Division, prior to this partnership Paul was Director for CBRE where he was responsible for the Strategy & Analysis for The Bank of America International property portfolio.

Paul worked for a number of years at Pfizer, working in New York he was part of the Asset Management Services (AMS) team, responsible for the planning of Pfizer’s real estate projects globally. Paul was also Director for the Global Workplace of the Future project, consolidating and enhancing the global real estate portfolio.

In 2007, Paul won the William E Upjohn Global Award winner prize for Innovation for his work introducing and pioneering the concept of FlexiLabs to Pfizer.

Paul brings to NJW his experience of strategic real estate planning and leading capital projects to develop the NJW Strategy service offering.

Hello to William Hart

Extending our Connections Developers

NJW's success in securing new technology projects into 2010 is helping to finance the arrival of new high class staff.

William has joined NJW as an experienced Senior Software Engineer with a broad knowledge base gained in Software House, Computer Maintenance, and Telecommunications environments.

He is a skillful problem solver with a creative streak who’s thoughtful approach gets results. Resilient and comfortable with the wide varying demands of customer faced liaisons.

William's technical experience includes:-
Java (6 yrs)
Visual Basic (8 yrs)
IBM WebSphere, Tomcat (2 yrs)
Visual C++, C (10 yrs)
MS Windows OS (13 yrs)
ASN.1 FAN.1 (3.5 yrs)
Parser Development (4 yrs)
HTML,XML, XSLT (4 yrs)
COM, ATL, ActiveX (3.5 yrs)
Oracle DB, Pro C, PL/SQL (3 yrs)
JSP (3 yrs)
Unix (Solaris) C/C++ (13.5 yrs)
MS Access, SQL, ODBC (6 yrs)
SOAP, CCS (2.5 yrs)
MTS,ISS, Apache (3 yrs)
DirectX, OpenGL (1.5 yrs)
PL1,Assembler (3 yrs)
Eclipse, MyEclipse (3 yrs)

NJW Splits into 4 New Divisions

Business is changing

Managing Director Nigel Warrick feels that 2010 will be a growth year for NJW based on a consistent foundation of delivering professional services & technology success. The time is right to split the different areas of business into 4 distinct Divisions each with a dedicated business manager, list of services, quality rates and professional service teams.

NJW Strategy Division

Paul Dempsey Leads the New Strategy Division

NJW have had the privilege of working with some of the most progressive Strategic/Master Planning experts in every industry sector delivering informative, analytical property dashboards and roadmaps. NJW are now offering these highly prized talents as a professional service within the new NJW Strategy Division

These services can be enhanced by embracing the leading edge technology and spatial toolkits of the NJW Connections team.

NJW not only deliver high class Strategy but also design, present and manage the resultant data via Web based analytical Portals.

NJW Connections Division

Harnessing Technology

A typical NJW client has a substantial property estate that has grown beyond the ability of the incumbent managers to manage by conventional means, without the support of integrated software. The client may be going through a process of change whether through expansion or contraction of headcount.

These clients are caught in a classic dilemma - how to manage a complex property portfolio while being under universal pressure to reduce costs, often from within their own departments. Equally the client has a multitude of databases reporting on similar functions for People, places and things which inevitably causes duplication of administration effort.

The NJW Connections Division specialise in harnessing the worlds ‘best of breed’ Integrated Workplace Management Solutions to automate and manage these portfolios and assets as a ‘business as usual’ operation.

Most IWMS solutions need Crystal, Business Objects or similar to provide reports and operational dashboards whereas NJW Connections provides a fully functional Web based reporting tool which is personalised to suit your targeted requirements.

NJW Workspace Division

NJW Welcome Phil Overy to the Workspace team

The growing demands for specialised resources to meet the short and long term demands for projects in the Property, Facility Management, Architectural and Construction market sectors has become our speciality.

NJW have secured the services of Phil Overy to maintain and grow the succesful NJW Professional Services under the new Workspace Division branding.

Phil joins NJW with a proven reputation as a strong leader, who uses his communication skills and organised approach to successfully scope and deliver large budget projects effectively and efficiently. Phil brings with him experience of working in challenging environments including trading floors, government and aviation.

Managing Director Nigel Warrick looks forward to Phil taking control of the NJW Workspace Division with a vision of expanding the Division in terms of quality and customer communications.

The workspace team provide short and long term resource solutions in the following disciplines:
Strategic Space Planners, Space Planners, Facility Managers, Relocation Managers, Building Surveyors, CAD/CAFM Engineers, Asset Auditors, Data Entry/Migration Experts, Bid Managers, Programmers/Consultants, Property Professionals and Database Designers.

NJW can set up entire Workspace teams to manage capital projects, moves & changes and technology as a consolidated onsite service.

NJW Vision Division

Creative Design & Marketing

Mike Vince who has been established as the NJW Creative Director has an unusual pedigree in providing creative design and marketing services to leading edge companies such as Pioneer and even provided screen graphics for movies such as Jurassic Park.

Mike is at the forefront of NJW Connections 'Look & Feel', creative design, client personalisation and technology roadmaps.

As such, Mike is now available as promised to anybody who requires branding or marketing services, Web pages or professional bid creation. Mike is committed to NJW but has always wanted to reach out to a larger market having run a very succesful creative agency previously.