FM company 14forty, part of Compass UK & Ireland has won a three-year contract to provide cleaning, security and managed services at a Solvay chemical plant in Warrington. This is in addition to the catering service that Compass already provides ...

Property maintenance specialists, DMA Group, has been appointed by Bold & Reeves, one of London’s most exclusive property managers, to maintain the building engineering services at Knights House, a development of three super prime apartments in the Royal Borough of ...

As part of its commitment to delivering social value within its communities, global facilities service provider OCS, has helped Scottish Autism’s New Struan School, based in Alloa, create a new sensory room designed to help enrich the learning experience of ...

There’s been a cautious welcome by the waste industry to the Government’s announcement of reforms to household and business bin collections and a crackdown on unscrupulous waste carriers. The reforms include a new, simpler approach to recycling allowing people across ...

The results of the Q3 2023 RICS Facilities Management Survey points to widespread demand growth over the quarter, although the pace of increase does appear to have cooled somewhat. Over the coming year, sustainability management is anticipated to see the ...

Churchill has won the IWFM Impact Award for Technology for Project Oculus, its Virtual Reality (VR) training programme for cleaning operatives. The programme has been specifically designed for cleaning operatives on trains as rail is one of the key sectors ...

Residential property management company Encore, which manages a variety of complex mixed-use developments, large private housing schemes and many types of buildings across the UK has announced its membership of the Institute of Workplace and Facilities Management (IWFM). The move ...

A recent report from the Living Wage Foundation found 6.1 million workers experience low pay and insecure hours. The research echoes that of Working Well: Delivering Better Outcomes for Hidden Workers by L&G which found many FM related staff such ...

The latest quarterly forecast for the FM sector from the Building Cost Information Service (BCIS), reveals maintenance costs, as measured by the BCIS Private Sector Maintenance Cost Index, are set to rise by nearly 19 per cent in the next ...

Global facilities service provider, OCS, has acquired Accuro, a UK provider of business-critical facilities management services to the education and healthcare sectors, further strengthening its service offering to the public sector in the UK. Founded in 2005, Accuro is a provider ...