Whether it is in tightening up employment and health and safety legislation, promoting a green energy agenda or addressing sustainability, the new Labour Government is promising change. Leading organisations representing facilities and health and safety professionals discuss how the change ...

An innovative scheme designed to assess the competency of individuals offering specialist services in management systems has been launched by CIBSE Certification. Recognising the significant challenges faced by organisations and consultants within the built environment, particularly in the fields of ...

British Land’s Broadgate FM team won the Facilities Management category at this year’s CIBSE Building Performance Awards. Anastasia Mylona, Technical Director at CIBSE outlines some of the carbon saving interventions that impressed the judges In 2020 British Land made an ...

Lisa Ashworth has been named as the new Chief Executive Officer of BSRIA, the research and information membership body for the built environment. Ashworth joins BSRIA with a wealth of experience in leading technology-based data and information businesses. With an ...

Representatives of the built environment have responded to the announcement by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak that a general election will take place on 4th July. The UK Green Building Council – which represents some of the UK’s biggest names in ...

On Thursday, 16th May from 12:00pm – 1:oopm, Garland UK will present an engaging and informative live RIBA-accredited CPD seminar, ‘Cutting Carbon through Sustainable Roofing Design’ led by Garland UK’s Architectural Manager, Chloe Barber. The RIBA-accredited CPD is free to ...

Embarking on the next phase of its groundbreaking Scope 3 Project, the Sustainable Facilities Management Index (SFMI), an initiative of Acclaro Advisory, is expanding its partnership of organisations and building on the work spearheaded by the collaboration of industry giants BAM ...

The last few years have seen notable changes in legislation and regulations within the FM space such as the Fire Safety Act 2021, The Building Safety Act 2022 and the Fire Safety Regulations (England) 2022, to name a few. These ...

A set of new sustainable building policy recommendations has been launched by the World Green Building Council (WorldGBC), in collaboration with 24 of its European Green Building Council members. The ‘European Manifesto for a sustainable built environment‘ has been designed for ...

Concerns expressed by the UK’s Climate Change Committee (CCC) that current economic and energy security issues could derail progress towards net zero carbon targets have been echoed by the Building Engineering Services Association (BESA).  In its latest report, the Committee ...