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Lack of confidence in government hampering growth in construction

Fewer than one in five of those surveyed for Gleed’s UK Construction Market Report 3Q 2023 said they have “confidence” that the current government can improve market conditions and ultimately increase output from the sector. Almost two thirds of contractors ...

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Enva to acquire fridge and electrical appliance recycling facility in Scotland

Recycling and resource recovery firm, Enva, has signed terms with Shore Recycling to acquire the company’s electrical waste recycling plant in Perth, Scotland. The £10 million investment will see the facility, which was damaged by a fire earlier this year, ...

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Research confirms link between office transformation and workplace satisfaction

New research has found that companies that have made a change to their offices and way of working since the pandemic have a 17 per cent higher satisfaction score among employees than those that haven’t. The report titled ‘Great Adaptations ...

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Pagabo names suppliers for new £545m M&E framework

National framework provider Pagabo has announced the 47 suppliers appointed to its brand-new £545 million Mechanical & Electrical Solutions Framework. The framework, which will run for a total of four years, has been designed as a solutions-based offering to complement ...

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Gold RoSPA Health and Safety award for Salisbury

For the third consecutive year, Salisbury Group has secured a Gold Award from RoSPA – the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents. Now into its 67th year, the RoSPA Health and Safety Awards is an internationally-recognised process for demonstrating ...

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Mitie scores contract extension with Arsenal FC

Arsenal Football Club has renewed its security vetting contract with Mitie for a further five years. The contract extension will see Mitie continue to provide essential vetting services include background checks, criminal records checks and Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) ...

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Director hire at Bidvest Noonan

Bidvest Noonan, a provider of facilities services across the UK and Ireland has appointed Nick Platt, a senior executive with more than 17 years of leadership experience in the industry as Director of Sales for Great Britain. He also joins ...

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Arcus strengthens mobile FM capabilities through acquisition

Arcus Facilities Management has bolstered its mobile engineering, technology, and project delivery strength in the UK FM market, following its acquisition of the Trios Group. Trios is a business that employs over 200 people, and that has strong alignment with ...

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Employers are reducing office space as workers still attend offices less than two days a week 

Workers are still only coming into the office an average of 1.75 days a week, a study of 119 workplaces in 22 countries by AWA, a global workplace consultancy, has found. The responses, collated in April-May 2023 and representing organisations ...

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BaxterStorey achieves Hospitality Assured ‘World Class’ status

BaxterStorey has been named as the first ever Business & Industry sector caterer to achieve ‘World Class’ status by Hospitality Assured, the quality standard developed by the Institute of Hospitality. Hospitality Assured assesses nine steps of the Hospitality Assured standard; ...

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