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International Workplace and DPD partnership recognised at the SHE Awards

International Workplace and DPD have been Highly Commended for the Safer Logistics Award at the SHE Awards. The awards, held on Wednesday evening at the Vox in Birmingham, saw more than 750 health and safety professionals from the construction, manufacturing ...

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Inviron secures cooling project at BCU

Birmingham City University (BCU) has appointed hard FM specialist, Inviron, as Principal Contractor to supply and install 14 Daikin Inverter Air Conditioning units into several servers and hubs within its Curzon Building. Opened in 2015, the Curzon Building is home ...

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SBTi validates Mitie’s decarbonisation targets

Mitie’s greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets have been validated by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi). Scienced-based targets show organisations how much and how quickly they need to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions in order to prevent the worst effects ...

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Quality over quantity becomes the preference for commercial spaces

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) UK Commercial Property Monitor Q1 2023 sees the market remaining generally subdued as it continues to contend with higher borrowing costs and a slow economic growth outlook. However, the overall tone is not ...

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Engineering skills

In an industry that faces a severe skills gap, educating young people on the exciting and varied opportunities that a career in engineering can offer is vital says Robert Molloy, Managing Director Scotland, Parker Technical Services It’s no secret that ...

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Nearly half of FMs forecast business unviability if they don’t embrace digital technologies

Almost half (45 per cent) of facilities managers think that their business could become unviable in the next couple of years if it doesn’t improve its digital technologies and skills, according to new research from Watco. The study found that ...

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Compass partners with Giki to empower its workforce to reduce their carbon footprint

Compass Group UK & Ireland has announced a new partnership to enable its 45,000 strong workforce to reduce their personal carbon footprints by an estimated 400kg CO2e each per year. The food and support services provider says the decision to ...

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Sodexo extends FM contract with BAE Systems Munitions

Sodexo’s Corporate Services’ division has extended its soft and hard FM contract with BAE Systems Munitions, worth circa £16 million over the next four years. A 60-strong Sodexo team has been delivering services for BAE System’s four Munitions locations at ...

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Talented solution

How to boost talent retention during an era of employee discontent. By Charles Butterworth, Managing Director, Access People Retaining talent has always been a long-running critical issue for businesses, but in the current climate, it could become even more of ...

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UK organisations are ‘sleepwalking’ towards a building retrofit crisis

  This is the warning from a new report The Role of Retrofitting our Non-Domestic Buildings in the Race to Net Zero, by Ridge and Partners LLP, a multi-discipline property and construction consultancy. The report shows that fewer than one in ...

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