The restructuring of the Dalkia Group - part of Vivendi - continues with senior management changes set to cement the relationship between the FM arm and other group companies.

Stewart Wood (pictured), national operations director with Dalkia Workplace Services (formerly Symonds FM) moves to become deputy managing director of Dalkia AB in Sweden. Active in the FM profession, he is a fellow and former council member of the BIFM, Wood's promotion follows a period spent in Australia working on disposal of Dalkia Group assets.

Commenting on the change, Prue Redfern, Dalkia Workplace Services managing director, said: "One objective behind the renaming of Symonds FM in April was the desire for closer working integration between different companies in the Dalkia Group, both in the UK and internationally. Stewart’s well deserved promotion is a very positive start to this. We look forward to more inter-company moves within the Group which will bring fresh ideas to benefit our growing customer base."

Dalkia Workplace Services has made other management team changes in response to growth: Bill Coghill, who was project leader on the high profile BA World Cargo contract, will become industrial & government sector operations director; Paul Crook moves to commercial sector operations director and Ken Coates to operations projects director. Andrew Reynolds takes over responsibility as development director and Martin Jolly becomes director of consultancy.

Richard Byatt