The Financial Reporting Council has fined the auditors of multinational construction and facilities management services company Carillion which collapsed in 2018, £21 million for ‘significant and serious breaches’. Two Final Settlement Decision Notices have been imposed against KPMG LLP, KPMG ...

Global data centre provider, Telehouse, has awarded Skanska a fit out contract valued at £158 million as part of a significant upgrade of its largest data centre, Telehouse South at Docklands in London. The project will see the mechanical, electrical ...

Mitie’s Capital Markets Event which took place yesterday (12 October) saw the company launch its new three-year plan for FY25-FY27: ‘From Facilities Management to Facilities Transformation’. The Group outlined how customers’ needs for their built environment are changing to meet increasing ...

International infrastructure group, Balfour Beatty, has joined the Chartered Association of Building Engineers (CABE) as a new Premium Company Partner. The partnership comes at a pivotal time for the construction and infrastructure industry, with the changes to the Building Safety ...

Sodexo’s Corporate Services division has formed a new community of practice aimed at bringing together sustainability heads from some of the UK’s leading organisations to be change-makers through collaboration. In today’s rapidly changing world, sustainability is a topic that concerns not ...

In the run-up to Recycling Week (16-22 October), total waste management firm, Axil Integrated Services, has set out its first Sustainability and Social Value Charter, emphasising its commitment to positive environmental impacts. Since its foundation in 2018, Axil says it ...

Latest projections from the Building Cost Information Service (BCIS) forecast construction costs to rise just over 3% in the year to 3Q 2024, while tender prices are expected to increase by just over 2% in the same period. In its five-year ...

A total of 83 companies comprising of building maintenance and compliance consultancies and contractors have secured places on not-for-profit public sector construction framework provider LHC Procurement Group’s (LHC) Asset Safety and Compliance (ASC1) framework, which is now live. The £135 ...

ISS UK & Ireland has appointed Martin Wilson as Managing Director of its Key Account Network (KAN). KAN provides a range of FM services, including cleaning, maintenance and technical services nationwide, via a team of 3,500 colleagues, to more than ...

Soft facilities management firm, SBFM, is launching its new HMP Academies to support the rehabilitation of prison leavers, after being awarded funding from the Ministry of Justice (MoJ). His Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) has actively been seeking to ...