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JCA is celebrating its 16th anniversary this month! 

JCA was incorporated in 2004 by a team of engineers with a wealth of experience within the building engineering services sector, data centre and critical services sector and air conditioning product manufacturing industry. Over the many years the company has grown, not only by reaching out and forming new and evolving client relationships, but also by understanding the need for change and to ever improve the service level provision, the need to excel beyond client expectation and to adapt to changes in markets and sectors in which JCA operates.

Today, JCA is a multi-disciplinary, engineering led organisation providing services to a diverse range of business sectors and end user clients. The company has many facets, not just delivering a broad spectrum of our “design build maintain“ services, but also managing and mitigating client specific operational risks, particularly in operational and critical environments, such as data centres and hospitals.

We are incredibly proud of what we have achieved over the last 16 years and would like to take a moment to thank all our staff, clients and supply partners for the continuous support they have shown us, especially during the current coronavirus pandemic.

This year we may be celebrating apart, nevertheless we are thrilled to be able to share this milestone with you and already look forward to next year’s celebration!

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You may want to read:

• JCA is celebrating its 15th anniversary 
• New ICU facility at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital
• Technical talent – Facilities Management Journal, February 2020
• First place for KAO Data Campus in the prestigious ASHRAE Technology Awards 

International Women in Engineering Day 2020 takes place on Tuesday 23rd June and is an international awareness day to support, inspire, celebrate and raise the profile of women in engineering. It is an opportunity to draw attention to the careers in engineering for young people and to celebrate the achievements of women engineers.

The theme this year is #ShapeTheWorld, inspired by UNESCO’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals. The UK National Commission for UNESCO is also this year’s INWED partner.

Celebrating women in engineering at JCA

To celebrate the International Women in Engineering Day, we asked a few of our female colleagues working in different roles about their experiences of working in engineering/maintenance industry.

Kirsty Eyles, JCA Lead Water Technician at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital:

“Being the only female JCA engineer at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital presents a great challenge and opportunity to break into a field underrepresented by women. Engineering is fun, challenging, innovative and fast-moving. It is about seeing a problem and being creative about solving it, then working together as a team to get the job done. It is about trying it out, and then pushing your idea that bit further…

I would encourage women who dare to take up a challenge and win, to risk entering a men dominated career field. In my experience, women often think they cannot do certain technical tasks when faced with something they have never done before, while men assume they can. When I look around me, I see women engineers in many fields: mechanical, electrical, structural, materials, software… Anything is possible.”

Tina McGennity, H&S Manager:

“I work on a number of construction and maintenance sites. Construction has always been considered ‘a male dominated’ environment but working at JCA, who employ two female Health & Safety managers, I am treated with respect and equality by everyone within the company, our contractors and clients.

In 2018 I won the SHP Biggest Impact Award for Health and Safety. This proves that women can excel in the industry and you can achieve your goals through hard work, dedication and commitment.”

Anna Stillman, Commercial Manager and Company Secretary:

“Dealing with commercial and contractual issues, I’m not on the front line of engineering and maintenance but, having worked in this sector for many years, I can honestly say that I don’t think about being a woman in a male dominated sector.

My perception is that the work I do is more important to my colleagues, customers and others I deal with than my gender.”

Andrea Baxter, Administration Manager:

“I’ve been working as business support to the engineering sector from around 2011.  Yes, the engineering industry is a male dominated sector, but there have always been a few women interspersed, like diamonds in the sand. They can be rare, but it has always been good to see them, passionate about what they do and excelling at their jobs.

To see more women slowly moving into the engineering sector is really exciting – It has always said to me that you can be anything you want to be.”

Pippa Dimsdale, Contracts Manager, MSD division:

“As a woman rising through the ranks in a “male dominated industry”, I have been pleasantly surprised by how accepting my male peers have been and how they have aided me to achieve success. I don’t feel like being a woman has hindered me in anyway, if anything, it encouraged me to work harder and show the industry that woman can offer so much with the right training and knowledge.

I would encourage any young females considering a role in the industry to take the jump as the rewards of working in a fast-paced, ever developing industry far outweigh any challenges!”

To find out more about International Women in Engineering Day 2020, visit their website: http://www.inwed.org.uk/ 

The everywoman network have provided a list of free to access resources to support International Women in Engineering Day include a selection of articles, webinars and other assets and you can access it here.

To get involved on Twitter, search hashtags #INWED20 and #ShapeTheWorld

Want to know more about what it’s like to work for JCA? Read our employees’ testimonials here and find out more about what JCA stands for here.

World FM Day, initiated by Global FM, is an international celebration of the importance of the FM profession. Its aim is to raise the profile of facilities management around the world and those involved in shaping and influencing the health, safety, productivity and well-being of people utilising the built environment. It highlights how facilities management plays an integral role in enabling positive customer, client and employee experience in all sectors, whether that’s residential, leisure, entertainment, retail, healthcare or any other. It also facilitates global knowledge sharing to promote the FM profession, and allows facilities management professionals to reflect on their achievements over the past year and celebrate each other’s successes.

As a leading M&E maintenance provider, we fully understand the importance of facilities management professionals and the role they play in often complex environments, ensuring that end users receive world class service. We are proud to be part of this by providing seamless and client-tailored M&E maintenance services.

We take time to understand each of our client’s unique requirements and tailor maintenance packages to suit each business’s individual needs. Our aim is to create strong relationships with the client’s FM teams based on mutual trust and understanding, as well as to provide first class customer experience.

World FM Day is a fantastic opportunity to discuss and share experiences and knowledge across the industry, to raise the awareness, promote the FM profession and celebrate the successes of the industry. This year’s theme is ‘Celebrating our environment’ which acknowledges our industry’s respect for the environment and our continuing focus on sustainability.

At JCA, we ensure sustainability is embedded in everything we do. We develop programmes to ensure our business, employees and supply chain are sustainably competent and are committed to ensure we meet and exceed legal and ethical requirements. Out teams are driven to continually improve sustainable performance through control / improvement programmes.

We believe in incorporating energy efficient technology into all our projects and can help decide what options will make a building sustainable, both environmentally and economically.

To find out more about JCA’s services, head over to Our services.

To get involved in the World FM Celebrations, join the conversation on Twitter and share your sustainable ideas using hashtag #WorldFMDay2020