Why tech in asset maintenance is important – Retail Times
Jason Petsch, CEO of OUTCO, discusses how technology is bringing long-term thinking back to asset maintenance From being an occasional menace, potholes are now ubiquitous on the country’s roads. Indeed, cratered road surfaces are becoming a symbol for national decline. Growing public outrage forced prime minister Rishi Sunak to commit a staggering 8bn of the money saved […]
Outdoor Maintenance Jobs For Now That’ll Make This Spring A Breeze
It is important for FMs to be aware of the increased risks associated with our current weather conditions and to take appropriate steps to mitigate them now
Icy Weather On The Way Heres Whats Causing This
The UK is due to for icy weather from the end of this week, with road surface temperatures dropping below zero to as low as -5C in various parts of the country. The Met Office has issued a yellow weather warning for snow and ice for Scotland, Northern Ireland and parts of northern England
How tech is being used to keep the UK moving during winter
“How tech is being used to keep the UK moving during winter” – published in FMOnline November 2023. Although the automation of winter maintenance doesn’t require clients to even request a gritting service, digitisation is allowing customers to immediately view in real-time when and where that service is delivered
Glenkinchie Distillery and Paul Hogarth Company Win Landscape Institute Award for Excellence in Small Landscape and Garden Design
The OUTCO Grounds Maintenance teams are thrilled to be involved and support the Glenkinchie Distillery and The Paul Hogarth Company for their award from The Landscape Institute in Excellence in Small Landscape and Garden Design.
Protecting night time workers – how challenging work like winter gritting can be made safer through innovation
Protecting night time workers – how challenging work like winter gritting can be made safer through innovation
Heroes of the Night: How Technology Shines a Light on Night-time Workers
Heroes of the Night: How Technology Shines a Light on Night-time Workers
Why specialist weather forecasts might just keep you out of trouble
The world of specialist weather forecasting has undergone significant improvements in recent years. Access to powerful supercomputers that process millions of lines of code, in conjunction with data from actual weather stations and live-feed sensors have accelerated observational capabilities and numerical weather prediction (NWP) models to near pin-point accuracy for short range meso-scale (hyper-localised) forecasting