Cofely Besix Facility Management (CBFM), the region’s leading integrated facilities management provider, won five awards at the Facilities Management Middle East 2016 ceremony held recently in Dubai, UAE.

It 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 presently employs 650 staff members in the UAE and 800 in Qatar.

CBFM was nominated in five categories, and walked away with five respective awards. The first 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 won the 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.

On the big win, Ian Harfield, the chief executive of CBFM, said: "We are extremely pleased to receive all the accolades, especially in so many different categories. 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 ninth year in 2016, and have come to be seen as the benchmark of success for facilities management companies in the region.-TradeArabia News Service