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 ...
Read More »Sybron becomes carbon neutral on its journey to net zero
“Our core values as a business are innovation and sustainability, so achieving carbon neutral status is a first and major step towards our ultimate goal to achieve net zero.” Sybron, a leading UK supplier of cleaning, hygiene and catering products ...
Read More ȣ557m government investment for public buildings to switch to cleaner energy
More public buildings and businesses will benefit from over half a billion pounds in government funding to help reduce their energy bills and carbon emissions. Schools, pools, and hospitals will be supported to make energy efficient upgrades, with over £557 ...
Read More »Mears highlights opportunities and challenges in decarbonising housing stock to achieve net zero
Mears Group has launched its first decarbonisation report detailing the scale of opportunity and challenge facing the UK housing sector as it works to reach the UK’s net zero targets. Building on its extensive experience of retrofitting homes to make ...
Read More »EMCOR UK unveils Carbon Transformation solution
EMCOR UK has unveiled its new Carbon Transformation solution encompassing three key areas – data insights, digitalisation and decarbonisation. Launched in response to evolving market trends and customer needs, it will be headed up by Director of Carbon Solutions Kam ...
Read More »Mitie reaches 5,000 EV milestone
Mitie has marked a milestone in its decarbonisation journey having welcomed its 5,000 electric vehicle (EV) to its fleet. Two-thirds (66 per cent) of the company’s fleet is now electric, ramping up Mitie’s pursuit of creating a zero-emission fleet by ...
Read More »BESA in a show of support for the urgency of net zero
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 ...
Read More »Sodexo achieves level 3 NHS Evergreen Supplier status
Sodexo Health & Care has achieved level 3 status on NHS’s Evergreen Sustainable Supplier Assessment maturity matrix. The Evergreen Assessment is one of several NHS initiatives designed to support its net zero and wider sustainability objectives and is aimed specifically ...
Read More »Data-led decisions
FMJ in partnership with property operations platform Facilio brought together a group of FM thought leaders from both client and services-provider backgrounds to discuss whether taking a tech-centric approach can help organisations transition to data-led building operations and achieve their ...
Read More »Government must ‘act now’ on energy storage or risk energy security and net zero
A House of Lords committee has warned the Government that it must “act fast” to ensure long-duration energy storage technologies can scale up in time to play a vital role in decarbonising the electricity system and ensuring energy security by ...
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