Bouygues Energies & Services doesn't just look after buildings and the people who work in them. The company has developed some surprising specialisations, too. Simon Hayman turns the spotlight on one of these.
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The Sunderland-based soft services specialist has completed two turnover-building acquisitions over recent weeks.
Specialist facilities services provider Total Solutions Group is now a Recognised Service Provider, working together with the Living Wage Foundation.
The UK Green Building Council has launched a new circular economy programme for the built environment, planned to test the principles on real estate assets and building projects.
Sodexo has won a £60m contract with Coventry University to supply catering and hospitality services.
OCS has extended its contract to deliver manned guarding and emergency helipad response services at Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool, a contract it is has held since 2011.
Outsourcing across the major services areas of IT and business processes in EMEA bounced back in the second quarter of 2018, following a months-long slowdown. But first-half performance in the UK was nevertheless down on last year.
The services group secured more than £2m of schools catering contract renewals during June.
In its latest update on the liquidation process, the Insolvency Service says that over 1,000 Carillion employees transferred to new suppliers last week.
Almost nine in 10 local authorities are not monitoring if their supply chain is getting paid within 30 days for services provided, according to data obtained by the ECA and BESA trade associations.
Resource management company Veolia has been awarded the first Carbon Energy Fund Ireland contract, a 15-year agreement at Dublin's Mater Misericordiae University Hospital.
Caroline Hutchins outlines what best practice should look like when it comes to implementing green measures.
Jason Mohr explains why facilities managers can't ignore the costs and compliance associated with bulky waste removal.
Naming, and the related branding, forms part of the bedrock of marketing strategy. There’s a lot of science to both and a huge amount of material on good and bad experiences. But in the end, you make your decision, unveil your work and pray for the best.
That's the statement that stuck with me from Wednesday's Smartworking Summit, the latest in the series organised by consultancy Quora and this time focusing on AI in the workplace.
The future is equal parts exciting and terrifying. New technologies are opening up a world of possibilities; but they are also raising real-world concerns, like who will use, manage and ultimately own the abundance of new data that is produced.
Immersed in the world of FM, it’s only by talking to a newcomer that you are reminded what a strange business this is: the multi-layered procurement processes, the relentless pressure on costs, the temptation to make promises based on a hope and a prayer.
OCS is an FM service provider on the up. Bob Taylor tells i-FM that the secret to its success isn’t really a secret at all.
After 15 years with Macro, Bill Heath left to explore new opportunities. They’ve certainly come knocking and include a new international business proposition, as he tells Fiona Perrin.
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