Alan Cooper, Founder of Waste to Wonder Worldwide awarded an OBE for services to charity and sustainability on moving from waste management compliance to resource stewardship For over two decades, I have worked closely with FM professionals, workplace leaders, and ...
Read More »Mitie awarded Disability Confident Level 3 – Leader status
Mitie has been formally recognised as a Disability Confident Leader (Level 3) – the highest accreditation available under the UK Government’s Disability Confident scheme, led by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). Achieving Level 3 status reflects sustained progress ...
Read More »Group Metropolitan delivers a state-of-the-art data hall testing laboratory in Knutsford
Group Metropolitan’s Northern team has successfully completed a bespoke laboratory fit-out project for a blue-chip client in Knutsford, delivering a highly complex and advanced data hall facility within a 30-week programme. The client appointed ARUP and Group Metropolitan at BSRIA ...
Read More »Keeping things ship-shape – Makita backpack vacuums used for cleaning of the historic Mary Rose
Makita Backpack vacuum cleaners are being used to clean the 500-year-old hull of the Tudor navy ship the Mary Rose at its dedicated museum in Portsmouth. The Makita vacuums provide manoeuvrability and flexibility for the museum staff to easily remove ...
Read More »Space to breathe
Indoor Air Quality is often an overlooked issue when it comes to workplace comfort and health says Janvi Patel, Product Marketing Manager, Mitsubishi Electric Indoor air quality (IAQ) which refers to the air inside the spaces people live and work ...
Read More »New counter terror qualification launches to boost workplace preparedness
The Level 3 Ofqual-regulated qualification – called the ‘SFJ Level 3 Award in Counter Terrorism Protective Security and Preparedness’ – aims to strengthen the UK’s counter terrorism protective security and organisational preparedness. It has been developed between the National Counter ...
Read More »Version 1 of the UK Net Zero Carbon Buildings Standard is published
Version 1 of the UK’s first cross-industry Standard for Net Zero Carbon Aligned Buildings has been published. The UK Net Zero Carbon Buildings Standard (“the Standard”) is a free-to-access technical standard that will enable the built environment to robustly prove ...
Read More »Employers are failing to support neurodiversity at work, finds Acas Survey
Over a third of workers (35 per cent) think that their employer is ineffective at training managers to support neurodiversity at work, according to a new Acas survey. The survey, carried out by YouGov, of 1,000 employees across Great Britain ...
Read More »Ansell unveils market first modular downlight
Championing sustainable and future proof design, Ansell Lighting has unveiled a brand new, market first, modular downlight – Prism Pro XM. Replacing the existing Prism Pro range, Prism Pro XM is a next-generation solution that combines the trusted performance of ...
Read More »Webinar: Meeting compliance in a new culture of accountability
From January 2026, the Building Safety Regulator (BSR) formally separated from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). Created under the Building Safety Act 2022 in response to the Grenfell Tower tragedy, the BSR is designed to raise safety standards across ...
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