An engaging role – building bonds with estate users
...decided that I missed military life too much and joined an armoured regiment as a TA officer attached to the regular army. Lt Col Jon on operations in Afghanistan. (Copyright)...
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It's a Dog's Life in the Falklands
...Regiment in Afghanistan. (Sgt Rupert Frere, RLC; Crown Copyright) The previous kennel structure was more than 30 years old and needed replacing with a modern building which is cheaper to...
Conservation, Catterick and Caerwent: An Archaeological Update
...injured service personnel assisting in archaeological digs on DIO land. Sgt Diarmaid Walshe, Dave Hart (a former soldier who was wounded in Afghanistan) and myself gave a joint lecture to...
From Soil to Solar Energy: Limiting Business Risk
...'Contaminated Soil' sign in Afghanistan. [Crown Copyright]However, it was not until 1998, when I joined DIO’s predecessor Defence Estates on secondment from industry - bit of a theme here -...
How DIO Commercial have responded to COVID-19
...today, and my goodness the weather has felt like summer recently. Today also marks the date that American writer Helen Keller died. She famously said, “although the world is full...
Transforming building maintenance and repair services for our Armed Forces customers
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David Brewer, Posted on:
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Commercial, Facilities Management, Future Defence Infrastructure Services (FDIS), Procurement
...with suppliers based on openness, honesty and trust. Today has seen the first four new contracts, which cover key maintenance work, repairs, servicing and hard facilities management across the Defence...
Homes from Home for Military Medics
This week marks the completion of a project I’ve been working on for the last few years, and I was delighted to be in Birmingham today for the ribbon cutting...
Transformation tasks: leading natural change
...just as true today, and I am very respectful of the challenge of making changes to an organisation. Transformation Tasks I have spent the past three months getting to know...
Managing the Overseas Estate: the importance of local staff
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Brigadier Simon Stockley, Posted on:
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Categories:
BATSUB, Belize, Canada, Cyprus, Falkland Islands, Kenya
![A LEC from Belize working on some plumbing. [Crown Copyright]](https://insidedio.blog.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2018/08/Belize-Brian-Robles-Plumber-1024x768.jpg)
...and around the world. Today I wanted to take the opportunity to explain the important role that our Locally Employed Civilians (LECs) play overseas to ensure that service personnel have...
A new start for facilities management on overseas sites
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Brigadier Jonathan Bartholomew OBE, Posted on:
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Commercial, Facilities Management, Gibraltar
...population of 30,000. It enjoys a strategic location at the western entrance to the Mediterranean, where the straits between Europe and Africa are only 14 km wide. Today marks the...