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BGIS is a leading provider of integrated real estate management services, facilities management services, professional services, project delivery services and workplace solutions.

With a combined team of over 7,000 team members globally, BGIS provides services to a wide range of occupiers and operators of real estate and physical infrastructure. We manage over 30 million square metres across 30,000+ locations in Australia, New Zealand, the wider Asia Pacific region, North America, Europe and the Middle East.

BGIS inspires better business performance across its client’s real estate and physical infrastructures portfolios, ensuring these real assets support core business both strategically and operationally. We operate from regional centres of excellence, providing an agile, innovative and customised service to our long-term customer base.

BGIS operates across a broad range of vertical markets and consequently has experience delivering services across a diverse asset and geographic base. Whether it is a global head office, national retail network, defence base, hospital or critical data centre we have the experience, capabilities and systems to deliver.

BGIS is a subsidiary of Brookfield Business Partners, a business services and industrial company focused on owning and operating high-quality businesses. Brookfield Business Partners is listed on the New York and Toronto stock exchanges

What is Ataxia-Telangiectasia?

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Ataxia telangiectasia (A-T) is a primary immunodeficiency disease that affects a number of different organs in the body. It is a rare and incurable disease often described as the worst parts of cerebral palsy, muscular dystrophy and cystic fibrosis. A-T occurs when a child is born with both copies of the “ATM” gene disrupted, which prevents his or her cells from producing any ATM protein. As children with A-T lack the ATM protein they are unable to properly repair or respond to certain types of DNA damage, giving rise to genetic instability and as a consequence, an increased risk of cancer, in fact, a risk 1,000 times greater than the general population. About one-third of children with A-T will develop cancer.

For reasons yet unknown, A-T affects the cerebellum, which is responsible for muscle control. As the cerebellum cells start to die, impaired muscle control results in difficulty with balancing, walking, co-ordination and fine and gross motor skills. This eventually leads to a loss of any movement or activity that requires the use of a muscle – eye movements, speaking, writing, swallowing, bladder control, breathing, coughing. Children with A-T are generally confined to a wheelchair between the ages of 8-10 years old, and rarely survive beyond their 20s.

BrAshA-T aims to raise awareness about A-T and to raise much needed funds for ongoing research currently in progress.

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