Sodexo has won a five-year, £2.8m catering contract extension with Quaerere Academy Trust in Sandwell, West Midlands.

ISS has secured an extension to a 10-site UK contract with a leading global food and beverage company.

TC Facilities Management has been appointed to deliver window and external signage cleaning across the country for the retail group.

Rotherham-based Horbury Property Services has won a three-year contract with Chesterfield Royal Hospital in Derbyshire to provide planned maintenance and refurbishment services.

Three trade bodies have joined forces to secure an agreement with the four UK governments to manage and develop apprenticeships, qualifications and National Occupational Standards for the building services engineering sector.

Two parliamentary committees, working together to look at the lessons from the Carillion collapse and how Whitehall manages major service providers, have registered alarm about a lack of action.

Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust has called a halt to its consideration of transferring estates and FM staff into a wholly owned subsidiary company.

ISS Food and Hospitality Ireland has signed up to an innovative grading system with the Irish Heart Foundation, introducing a new award scheme for staff restaurants.

A booming construction market and the drive in the private and public sectors to build world-class infrastructure is putting new momentum into the integrated facilities management market in the developing economies of the region.