Places for London (Transport for London’s wholly owned commercial property company) has teamed up with Construction Youth Trust on its educational engagement programme to inspire the next generation to work in the built environment, which encompasses both the construction and ...

Planning permission to develop a new cutting-edge headquarters for the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) at the University of Reading has been granted after Wokingham Borough Council approved the development at its February 2024 Planning Committee. The new ...

Integrated facility and aviation services provider, ABM, has appointed a new Managing Director and Finance Leader as it continues to deliver on its ambitious growth plans. Campbell Murdoch has joined the business as Managing Director for the Business & Industry ...

Workplace and facilities management (WFM) professionals are insufficiently involved in organisations’ plans around energy efficiency and carbon reduction, finds new research by the Institute of Workplace and Facilities Management (IWFM). In a large-scale survey of WFM professionals conducted in Autumn ...

A new report from Brivo, a global provider of cloud-based access control and smart building technologies, finds that while security is a new priority in building design, a mismatch between ambition and reality leads to spiralling costs. The results of ...

Publica Properties Establishment has appointed McLaren Construction to carry out the £132 million refurbishment and extension of 318 Oxford Street, repurposing the House of Fraser department store as a 34,000 square metre mixed use development. The project restores the art ...

Most business leaders now accept the hybrid workforce as the new normal. While some organisations have insisted on a return to the office, the majority have adapted to a structured hybrid model. At the same time, in an increasingly tough ...

JLL’s Property and Asset Management (PAM) team has been appointed by SEGRO to manage a retail and office portfolio in Slough, in a new, three-year contract agreement. The UK Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT), and a leading owner, manager and ...

After a challenging 2023, global property management and investment firm, Colliers, believes that 2024 will be the start of a transformative three years for commercial real estate (CRE) bringing value creation opportunities for occupiers and investors. In its new market ...

Corps Monitoring, a division of certified Social Enterprise, Corps Security, has bolstered its management team in Glasgow with the appointment of Andy Mounsey as Monitoring Technical Director and the promotion of Ross Doolan to Monitoring Control Room Manager. Mounsey brings ...