Sharon Pollard

I am very excited to announce I have been elected onto the Facility Management Association of Australia’s Board.

The Facility Management Association represents professionals, teams and organisations involved in the strategic and operational management of facilities in b...

At the recent Ideaction.Oceania conference the FMA officially launched its Ingenious Engagement Strategy.

This strategy will allow the FMA  to use it's influence to make a broader impact on the industry and provides the Association with ways to tangibly measure progress...

You may remember my post about the game changing Melbourne Renewable Energy Project (MREP) a few weeks ago. Recently I was lucky enough to go out to where the wind farm will be, Crowlands. 

Crowlands is about 2.5 hours from Melbourne in Western Victoria. It is an agricu...

I am so proud and excited that Fed Square is a founding member of the Melbourne Renewable Energy Project (MREP) which marks the first time in Australia that a group of local government, cultural institution, universities and corporations have collectively purchased ren...

It has been another exciting and busy IWD. 

It started with some awesome Fed Square stats and programming.

More than 55% of our staff, including 60% of our executive team and 50% of our Board are women. And throughout the day we played a series of short films which focus...

Well done to Nic Burt, FMA CEO, and the National Office team for another wonderful FMA National Awards night last night.

This is without doubt my favorite awards night of the year.

It is a rare opportunity to meet up with my FM colleagues from across Australia. A highlig...

I was privileged to be the guest speaker for Telstra's Brilliant Connected Women Executive Luncheon this week.

The sessions follow the same format as the Time Magazine's interview series with the Forbes Top 50 Women and questions included, 'What do you think is the most...

Many of you will know of my passion for improving diversity at all levels of organisations. Over my career I have worked in a number of male dominated sectors, one of which is the Facilities Management industry and I am particularly keen to improve gender diversity in...

In the emerging security climate CCTV has become critical in proactively managing security in places of mass gathering. But having the right equipment is just the start.

This insightful article by Federation Square's Security and Cleaning Manager, Peter Middenway, outli...

As many of my network will no doubt remember, Fed Square won two national awards last month. One of those awards was for our online warden training. I am very pleased to say that news of this achievement has set the Health and Safety and Emergency Preparedness industri...