At the best of times, waiting for a repair visit is unpleasant for customers. But now, the normal discomfort around service appointments is compounded by health and safety fears. This can lead to no-access visits, increased call centre contacts, and ...

Commercial Maintenance Services (CMS) UK Ltd has won a major contract with specialist healthcare provider, The Huntercombe Group. The two-year deal will see CMS delivering all planned and preventative building maintenance together with installations involving heating, hot water, and air conditioning, ...

Property management and compliance company, Velway, has extended its contract with RBH Properties for a fourth term, to manage the compliance and maintenance of the Pennine Five (P5) workplace development in Sheffield City Centre. With its distinctive five blocks of ...

The management of the UK’s education estate facilities has never been more important. Responding to this, partitioning expert Style has recently undertaken planned maintenance work, as part of a 3-year service agreement, in a cluster of Scottish schools, quickly rectifying ...

As we approach the thought of a release from lockdown it’s important to consider what may have changed in the dormant buildings whilst we have been away. Whilst the Alpine Service Team have remained 100% operational across the UK some ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has posed many challenges for the facilities management sector. Not only have managers been required to continuously adapt their working practices, but the past year has also seen the role change to become more prominent and even ...

Hobart Service are continuing to go above and beyond to support our NHS, and the ongoing handwork and dedication from the Service team has not gone unnoticed. Amid a third lockdown and at a time where UK hospitals are busier ...

For facilities managers in any industry with a need for back-up power, the importance of generator maintenance cannot be underestimated. Downtime can be costly, and in many cases, mission critical. According to national statistics, it has been estimated that a ...

Clearly there are big challenges facing all sectors today. Ensuring continuity of power is of critical importance at this challenging time. Gary Hickey, Specialist Fuel Divisions Director at Adler and Allan, explains the issues of microbial contamination in back-up generator ...

Jason O’Neill, National Maintenance Operations Manager for Greggs, explains how the food-on-the-go retailer has created a state-of-the-art, technology-led, shop maintenance service with impressive results I joined Greggs 20 years ago as a shop maintenance engineer. Having worked through various roles ...