Facilities management
The main focus of facilities management is the safety and welfare of employees and other people who use our buildings.
It includes many activities which keep buildings running smoothly, such as security, cleaning, post, recycling, car park management and to ensure that we provide the right buildings, at the right standards, on the right sites.
Main areas of work
Building management:
- cleaning, caretaking, grounds maintenance
- health and safety
- fire management
- waste management
- security
- hygiene services
Operational and front of house (County Hall):
- security
- deliveries and logistics
- meeting rooms
- maintenance requests
- commissionaires
Energy management:
- utility procurement and contract management
- energy efficiency
- identify projects and develop business cases for carbon reduction and renewable energy schemes
Strategic space management and ergonomics:
- delivering space in a changing environment
- understanding the interaction between users and space
- change management and new ways of working
To contact facilities management email facilities.management@derbyshire.gov.uk or:
- Steve Walters, head of facilities management, email steve.walters@derbyshire.co.uk or tel: 07990 925329
- Liz Pastuer, principle energy officer, email liz.pasteur2@derbyshire.gov.uk or tel: 01629 535385
- Marie Matthewman, senior facilities management officer (north), email marie.matthewman@derbyshire.gov.uk or tel: 01629 705788
- Alex Stanley, senior facilities management officer (south), email alex.stanley@derbyshire.gov.uk or tel: 01629 535773
- Wendy Pugh, senior facilities management officer (county complex), email wendy.pugh2@derbyshire.gov.uk or tel: 01629 539169
Cleaning, caretaking and grounds maintenance services
Our joint venture company became operational from autumn 2020, trading as Vertas, with the transfer of our caretaking, cleaning, and grounds maintenance employees to deliver these services.
If you need to get in touch about cleaning, caretaking or grounds maintenance please contact the Vertas customer first helpline:
Any requests for additional work should be directed to Steve Walters, email steve.walters@derbyshire.gov.uk
Energy management
Our energy team are an important part of facilities management. On average they save nearly £100,000 a year checking bills, meter readings and looking for anomalies in energy consumption.
You may have seen Display Energy Certificates in our buildings. These show the energy efficiency performance of our buildings and identify energy efficiency solutions for facilities management to implement.
Over the last few years corporate property has undertaken energy efficiency improvements such as fitting LED lighting, installing energy efficient cooling in the data centre and fitting solar panels. These all save money or enable income to be generated from our buildings.