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A new guide on outsourcing decisions and contracting has been designed to improve how government works with industry and to deliver better public services.
The security services company has mobilised its most recent contract, providing a range of support to British American Tobacco across multiple locations in the south of England.
The FM professionals group is backing the sustainability agenda and urging the industry to get on-board too.
The Office for Students has awarded a three-year hard services contract to Graham Facilities Management covering three buildings in Bristol.
The Paisley-based soft services group has been appointed to provide a range of cleaning services for Glen Turner Ltd at their Starlaw Distillery site in Bathgate.
Corporate Facilities Services, the south coast-based soft services specialist, is reporting three retail contracts newly underway for 2019.
The FM provider has been certified to the ISO standard for asset management at London's landmark cable car site.
Mitie has been awarded a five-year contract with Yorkshire Building Society covering engineering, catering and security at 147 sites.
The independently-owned service provider is partnering with a software specialist to launch a new system designed to simplify service delivery and facilitate enhanced ways of working with clients.
The University of Westminster has chosen Sitemark to support procurement of cleaning services across its London estate.
In the right environment, complete robotic cleaning could only be a year or two away. Alex Blake looks the ways smart technology is changing the cleaning industry and calls for benchmarked standards on how it's being used.
Active Workplace Solutions invited a select group of FM experts to discuss the critical components of sustainability and why the industry’s current challenges call for a reappraisal of what that word means. i-FM reports.
How can facilities managers manage poor mobile coverage within their buildings? Sean Keating explains the challenge.
On exactly the same day that yet another key supplier of services to the government ran into financial problems, last week saw a speaker from the Cabinet Office tell the Workplace Futures conference that "we need significant cultural change on all sides".
The FM industry does a lot of things really well. What if we added one more to the list that could lift our perception, our value, our reputation?
And that is what's stopping our future talent from joining what one student called a 'hidden industry'. Sienna Emanuel asked a group of students what we need to do.
Lucy Jeynes' witty wrap-ups at the annual Workplace Futures conference are famous for their insight. As she prepares to take to the stage this year, she tells Fiona Perrin about what's coming next in the world of workplace.
A great workplace experience is not going to double the share price, Mace Macro's Ross Abbate tells Fiona Perrin, but it's time to talk to buyers about how it can help close the productivity gap.
He's proud of his big outsourcer background, Martyn Freeman tells Fiona Perrin; but he's back with a new version of FM.
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