07 June 2016
Dubai, UAE - Cofely Besix Facility Management (CBFM), the region's leading integrated facilities management provider, recently won five awards at the Facilities Management Middle East 2016 awards.

Cofely Besix Facility Management was nominated in five categories, and walked away with five respective awards. The first award received was for The Sustainability Initiative of the Year category, in recognition of the company's solar-powered operations and call centre, which was recently completed and has already reported significant savings in electricity.

The company also received the award for Engineering Service of the Year award, which focused specifically on the FM services provided by CBFM to the Yas Island development.

CBFM was also highly commended as The Overall FM Company of the Year, and Troy Muggleton received a highly commended award as FM Manager of the Year, while Marwan Abou Raad walked away with the highly commended award for Young FM of the Year.

"We are extremely pleased to receive all the accolades, especially in so many different categories," commented Ian Harfield, CEO of Cofely Besix Facility Management.

"It is a wonderful feeling for us all to receive the recognition for our accomplishments this year, and I am certainly very proud of the whole CBFM team."

The FM Awards, celebrated their 9th year in 2016, and have come to be seen as the benchmark of success for facilities management companies in the region.

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About Cofely Besix Facility Management
Cofely Besix Facility Management LLC is a joint-venture established in 2008 by Cofely and the BESIX Group, to provide first-class integrated facility management services in the Middle East. The company employs 650 staff members in the UAE and 800 in Qatar.

Cofely is part of ENGIE, worldwide global energy player. GDF SUEZ is now ENGIE.

The BESIX Group, active for more than 40 years in the Middle East, has a wide range of experience of real estate and infrastructure construction.

The strengths of these two companies were combined in order to deliver the most critical part of facility management - the maintenance of technical installations and energy management.

Cofely Besix Facility Management delivers an Integrated Facility Management Model which provides the ability to offer multiple services on multiple sites, all through a single point of contact. That means that we offer a complete range of maintenance, cleaning, management solutions and essential multi-disciplinary trades, supported via a 24/7 call centre, to every industry sector, from residential and commercial to educational and airports.

Clients include The Emirates Group, Dubai Mall and the Dubai Fountains, Emirates Real Estate Corporation, Yas Island and Adar Headquarters in Abu Dhabi, to name a few.

For further enquiries please contact:
Ian Harfield
CEO
Cofely Besix Facility Management
Tel: 04 321-2114
Email: iharfield@cofely-besix.com
www.cofely-besix.com

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Lorey Fenton
Marketing Communications Consultant
Tel: +971 50 587-9068
Email: lorey@lmcdubai.com
www.lmcdubai.com 

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