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Fessler Home Improvements

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To start off went to several local companies looking for bids on roofing and vinyl siding. Fessler is the only one that stayed on top of the bidding process. The others had to call them back for their bids and they weren't ready. Would wait couple days call back and still were not ready. When I decided on Fessler, Jim came out and gave me several ideas on how to make the job better with no extra costs and also threw in a complete house pressure wash. During the work all the workers were respectful and only saw them take a lunch break on 12 to 13 hour work days. No mess was left and all the nails were picked up. The house looks brand new and I am so happy with the work.

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Buildings & Facilities Director ? Leading Telecoms Group ? Riyadh ...

Job Description

Our client is a leading Telecoms company in the Middle East. They have an outstanding reputation for delivering quality, innovation and reliability.
They work with international companies on special projects and have a large multicultural workforce

We are looking for an experienced DIRECTOR- Buildings and Facilities to join their team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

OVERVIEW OF ROLE

Directly manages the strategic planning for the buildings and facilities section to continuously develop effective building projects and facilities maintenance operation management in order to attain high quality systems and standards. Directly oversee the management of all issues that pertains to building infrastructures, building facilities maintenance operations, repairs and renovations.

Manage the implementation of cost effective operating plans, process and procedures. Directs and contributes in designing company facilities, project implementation and commissioning, implementation of corrective and preventive facility maintenance to insure all aspects shall meet general specification in accordance with all standards. Leads and analyses problems and formulates alternative/innovative solutions to support the VP to achieve the section?s major objective and strategy plans.

Reporting to: Vice President ? Buildings and Facilities
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Department Strategy Formulation
? As a senior member of the Building and Facilities team contributes to the formulation and implementation of strategy and plans as appropriate for the department needs and objectives.
Department Management
? Manages the day-to-day operations of Buildings and Facilities and maintenance and facilities, providing expertise, encouraging and ensuring teamwork, aligning work process in order to achieve high performance standards, meet established targets, objectives and employee engagement in a motivated environment
? Exercises financial authority within established limits and controls departmental expenditure.
Project Team Leadership
? Leads and directs project teams compromising internal and contracted resources to maximize effectiveness to deliver projects on targeted time, costs and project/s standard quality.
Project Scope
? Defines and documents the project scope, project targets/objectives and high level project plans to translate desired business benefits into clear and achievable project objectives.
Maintenance Scope
? Oversees and directs the development and agreement to annual maintenance/ refurbishment plans and associated budgets
? Oversees and directs the buildings and facilities operation and repair and maintenance of all facilities and any other related support system, ensuring the best practice and standard are met
? Oversee and directs the implementation of preventive and corrective maintenance at all facilities
Resource Planning
? Prepares overall project resourcing and contingency plans to ensure effective individual project resourcing to meet all of the project objectives/ goals in all likely circumstances
Project Funding
? Oversee and directs the coordination with Finance to secure project funding and establish partnership enabling agreement to plan in line with strategic objectives of the company
? Financial budget planning, monitoring and cash flow
Pre-Qualification
? Oversee and directs line pre-qualification process to ensure that best possible resources are made available to company in a cost efficient and effective manner
Design Development
? Oversee and directs the supervision and participates in the development of conceptual and preliminary designs. Includes discussions with management to ensure they are satisfied with the proposed designs and that their requirements are being met

COMPENSATION & BENEFITS

? Should be used as a guide only and will reflect interview performance and experience levels
? As a guide, up to 40,000 SAR ? 50,000 SAR per month

Skills

ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENTS

? Bachelor?s Degree in Architecture or Civil Engineering in a known reputable College or University
? With post-graduate special training and seminars in the field of: Project Management and Building Facilities Operation and Maintenance
? 8 years of fulltime experience in Project management in a large organization specifically on technical aspect
? Good experience in various Engineering projects in direct implementation, design, supervision and building facility maintenance operations
? 5 ? 6 years fulltime experience in senior managerial level role
? Excellent knowledge in project management

KEY SKILLS

? Knowledge of floor plans, layouts, design software applications, engineering principles and standards
? Good knowledge in buildings and facilities operation and maintenance
? Good knowledge in tender procedures, vendor pre-qualification, consultant pre-qualifications
? Good knowledge in budget/financial planning, monitoring and cash flow
? Computer literate
? Advance level in English language
? Advance level in written and oral communications
? Good communication and interpersonal skills
? Good leadership skills
? Critical thinking and good analytical skills
? Well-developed managements skills
? Good organizational skills
? Time management skills
? Good negotiating skills

?

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We work with local, Arabic speaking, Western and international mid-senior level management professionals who are looking for new opportunities.

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With new roles coming in daily we can offer a premier service to our candidates and clients helping each achieve the desired outcome.
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Venus loses in Wimbledon 1st round, 1st since '97

Venus Williams of the United States tosses the tennis ball to serve to Elena Vesnina of Russia during a first round women's singles match at the All England Lawn Tennis Championships at Wimbledon, England, Monday, June 25, 2012. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

Venus Williams of the United States tosses the tennis ball to serve to Elena Vesnina of Russia during a first round women's singles match at the All England Lawn Tennis Championships at Wimbledon, England, Monday, June 25, 2012. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland returns a shot to Magalena Rybarikova of Slovakia during a first round women's singles match at the All England Lawn Tennis Championships at Wimbledon, England, Monday, June 25, 2012. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

Samantha Stosur of Australia returns a shot to Carla Suarez Navarro of Spain during a first round match at the All England Lawn Tennis Championships at Wimbledon, England, Monday, June 25, 2012. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

Na Li of China returns a shot to Ksenia Pervak of Kazakhstan during a first round match at the All England Lawn Tennis Championships at Wimbledon, England, Monday, June 25, 2012. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)

Novak Djokovic of Serbia leaps to returns a shot to Juan Carlos Ferrero of Spain during a first round men's singles match at the All England Lawn Tennis Championships at Wimbledon, England, Monday, June 25, 2012. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)

WIMBLEDON, England (AP) ? Five-time champion Venus Williams was eliminated 6-1, 6-3 by Elena Vesnina of Russia at Wimbledon on Monday, the first time the American has lost in the opening round at the All England Club since her debut 15 years ago.

Williams, a seven-time Grand Slam champion, has fallen to 58th in the world rankings since being diagnosed with an autoimmune disease. She lost the first five games on Court 2 to the 79th-ranked Russian and, although she picked up her game and fought hard, was never able to turn the match around.

Defending men's champion Novak Djokovic had no such troubles, beating former No. 1 Juan Carlos Ferrero 6-3, 6-3, 6-1 in the opening match on Centre Court.

Associated Press

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Tips For How To Make The Most Of Your Home Improvement Projects

by Alison Heath

Home improvement projects come in a variety of sizes. Many people who practice feng shui believe that a desk should be placed facing a doorway, so that the person who sits there doesn?t give their power away to those who enter the door. Read on to learn more about improving your home using the ancient Chinese art of feng shui.

It?s best to have structure when doing any home improvement project. Work out the costs, the time required for your project and what the finished project will look like. This will help you avoid any unpleasant surprises and keep your project within budget.

One good home improvement project that pays dividends is finishing the basement. A finished basement adds extra living space to your home for your family. Discount stores have everything you need as far as building materials. Often, people say that the value of your home may go up thirty percent by finishing the basement.

Be sure that any wood burning stoves you purchase are EPA certified. All new stove models should have this type of certification and older ones must be tested to find out if they meet the current emission standards. You also need to think about carbon monoxide if you use a wood-burning stove. Periodically check your stove to make sure it isn?t leaking.

Once you need to replace your shingles on the roof, you should think about going with light-colored shingles for the replacement. These lighter-colored tiles help to reflect the sun?s rays, and this means a cooler, more comfortable home and less dependence on air conditioning. If you do not use your air conditioner as much, you will be able to save money.

Homes can look newer with the help of floor covering in rooms. A good flooring company can give you carpet, hardwood, tile or laminate in one day; you can also do it yourself by visiting a home store and checking out what is available.

Wipe any dust, dirt or oil from your baseboards and walls with a damp rag before you start painting them. This permits the paint to stick to the surface of the wall better and may even result in fewer coats being necessary, as well as less touching up.

Installing new lighting to dreary kitchens and bathrooms could be an affordable way to liven up the rooms. Old and outdated track lighting can be replaced with better looking lights by an electrical professional for a low cost. For example, many people love the modern, distinctive look of a pendant light or chandelier.

If you are planning to improve your home, you should learn as much as you can about doing the work on your own. As long as you?re willing to get a little dirty and sweaty, you can end up saving a ton of money. Even the smaller companies out there will charge a lot of money per hour, perhaps upwards of 50 bucks. This can certainly add up and threaten to break your budget.

Feng shui is the idea that the placement of furniture can impact your home?s energy flow and have a difference in your quality of life. Feng shui is a unique type of home improvement. It can provide your home with a whole new feel and look.

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Asus Transformer Pad Infinity shows up at Best Buy, commands $600 price tag, 64GB of storage

You didn't think ASUS pushed its souped up Transformer slate through federal approval for the sake of its health, did you? No, if Best Buy's online store has anything to say about it, the Transformer Pad Infinity's FCC excursion was preparing it for sale. It's not quite ready yet, but when it is, Best Buy will apparently be handing the slab out for $599 and change, netting buyers 64GB of storage, NVIDIA's Tegra 3 processor and a 1,920 x 1,200 10.1-inch Super IPS+ display. The listing appears to be for the WiFi-only version of the tablet, with no mention of the Snapdragon S4-equipped LTE variant that ASUS announced earlier this year. According to the product page, the unreleased hardware is currently "sold out online," but at least you know how many pennies you'll need to pinch. Check it out at the source link below.

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Creative individuals travelled to the south Swedish inland 9,000 years ago

ScienceDaily (June 25, 2012) ? Despite its good ecologic status, there were no permanent settlements in the south Swedish inland 9,000 years ago. Yet the area was visited by people who wanted to express their individuality and creativity and thereby gain status. This is found in a new doctoral thesis from the University of Gothenburg.

Carl Persson's doctoral thesis in Archaeology is based on archaeological material discovered in connection with the construction of the E4 highway by Markaryd, Sweden. The finds consisted of a few very small pieces of flint that had been left behind in connection with visits to what used to be a small island in the outlet of a long-gone lake. The wear marks on the flint fragments reveal that they were used to carve meat, bone, wood and horn. The wear marks combined with computer-aided analyses of the phosphate levels in the ground and the distribution of the finds has yielded a detailed account of people's visits to the site some 9,000 years ago.

'It is generally believed that conclusions about Stone Age life require large amounts of archaeological finds, but the results in my thesis contradict that notion,' says Persson.

To put the site in a larger context, Persson reconstructed the Mesolithic landscape through computer-aided analyses. It turns out that the landscape has changed dramatically -- 9,000 years ago the now brown lakes were clear and full of nutrients and had a high pH level. The average temperature was much higher than today and the dense forests were full of lush broad-leaved trees.

'Yet despite the good ecologic conditions, the area didn't attract many people in the first millennia after the Ice Age. Analyses show that the inland probably wasn't permanently inhabited during the Mesolithic period (10,000-4,000 BC), but that people did come to visit,' says Persson.

Traces from the inland visits are almost always found near waterways and lakes, and analyses of the finds indicate that different groups have travelled to the inland with different ambitions. The visits are probably due to the fact that people moved across very large areas 9,000 years ago. The extensive travel had to do with the extremely low population density -- in order to meet other people you had to travel far and have broad social networks.

'In a society characterised by a quest for equality, knowledge about foreign locations and other people was a way for people to distinguish themselves and gain status. Against this background, the trips to the inland 9,000 years ago can be seen as a natural consequence of people's creativity and desire to express a sense of individuality,' says Persson.

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