The Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) has called on employers to pledge they will take on at least one apprentice this year in a bid to plug the industry’s alarming skills gap and ensure it has the right talent to ...

Mitie has passed the £1 million milestone for its Apprenticeship Levy gifting, committing to support a range of SMEs across England since January 2021. Through this gifting programme, Mitie will support more than 70 apprenticeships, many of which are new ...

Social enterprise Corps Security has been awarded a three-year contract with leading insurance firm, Zurich, to deliver guarding services across its UK portfolio which includes premises in London, Birmingham, Glasgow, Swindon, Whiteley and Farnborough. The deal was secured in collaboration ...

The headline climate pledges of 25 of the world’s largest companies in reality only commit to reduce their emissions by 40 per cent on average, not 100 per cent as suggested by their “net zero” and “carbon neutral” claims, according ...

Privately owned global facilities management company, GSH Group, has announced its acquisition of Team Q, a UK-based facilities maintenance provider delivering technical maintenance solutions. GSH Group delivers FM services across a diverse portfolio of industrial, commercial, government and private real ...

Sodexo has been appointed as the single supplier on the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC) new property services integrator framework. The framework is accessible to all other UK public sector bodies, including the Offices of the Police and ...

Property services firm, Mountjoy, has been awarded a contract with Woking Borough Council to provide responsive maintenance, void property works, domestic and communal gas boiler servicing to its housing stock. The three-year contract, which commences on the 1 April 2022 ...

Amey has helped Barnsley Council secure £1.3 million from the Government’s Public Sector Decarbonisation Scheme, operated by Salix. Working alongside Barnsley Council, Amey, along with BMSI (Building Management Service Integrators), reviewed current energy metering systems and building controls across the ...

Pinnacle Spaces has been appointed by CBRE Investment Management’s UK Affordable Housing Fund to provide all management functions for the new Lewisham Exchange, Asquith Court development, which includes 40 social tenanted and 27 shared ownership homes. Pinnacle Spaces, a Registered Provider of Social Housing with the Regulator of Social Housing ...

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has created a safety case tool kit for building owners and managers responsible for high-rise residential buildings. The law relating to building safety in England is changing. Proposed reforms currently making their way through parliament ...