London’s most outstanding workplaces have been named, with British Council for Offices Awards going to seven office buildings across the city. Held at the Park Plaza hotel, the BCO’s annual London Awards Lunch recognised projects that demonstrate best practice in ...

OCS has been appointed by Southbank Centre to supply total facilities management services to its sites over the next five years, with the potential for an extension. The core multi-million-pound contract includes cleaning, hard services (mechanical & engineering and projects), ...

The Worshipful Company of Engineers, a livery company dedicated to advancing engineering excellence, has appointed David Cooper, Vice President of CIBSE (Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers), and David Stevens, Chair of CIBSE FM Group and Chair of the CIBSE ...

Metsä Group has launched its 2025 Sustainability Awards. The company’s biennial Sustainability Awards was founded in partnership with the Cleaning & Services Support Association (CSSA) in 2023 with the aim of shining a spotlight on sustainability across the cleaning and ...

Corps Security has landed a contract with the National Farmers Union Mutual Insurance Society Limited (NFU Mutual), the UK insurance composite, to provide a fully integrated security service at over 30 of its sites throughout the UK. The contract which ...

Churchill Group’s specialist security division, Amulet, is partnering with several boroughs within Essex on a 15-month pilot project that will see six Transport Safety Officers (TSOs) coordinate with c2c, Greater Anglia and Ensign Buses to enhance safety on public transport. ...

Compass Group UK & Ireland has completed its acquisition of catering company, CH&CO, following regulatory approvals. The acquisition sees CH&CO’s portfolio of brands, which include Gather & Gather, Vacherin and Company of Cooks, join Compass’ group of companies, resulting in ...

OCS has won a contract to continue providing laundry services to aviation industry giant, Virgin Atlantic. The contract award is an extension of a decade-long partnership between the two organisations and will see OCS serving Virgin Atlantic’s locations primarily in ...

“The world of waste management is about to change” according to three industry mavericks, who are ready “to disrupt the status quo” with the launch of a new company, Circulai. Max Kanda and Simon Sharp, previously the Managing Directors of ...

Bidvest Noonan has launched its VR training programme, Altius, with more than 1,600 security officers onboarded for phase one of the programme. Altius see security officers train in virtual environments using VR headsets. These environments are perfect replicas of their ...