Ahead of summer shutdowns, Dean Skerratt, Business Development Director for Climate Centre, considers some of the key checks and maintenance tasks that FMs and building managers should schedule to maintain reliability and efficiency of air conditioning and climate control systems ...

Two-thirds of estate leaders warn ageing infrastructure is the biggest barrier to tackling backlog maintenance. NHS Property Services (NHSPS) has surveyed estate leaders to find out how to improve building maintenance across their estates. The results reveal management of NHS ...

The new committee has been launched by industry standard SFG20 to safeguard maintenance standards in the age of AI. SFG20 has announced the launch of its Ratification and Compliance Committee, a collective of leading industry bodies established to provide independent oversight ...

Roofing failures rarely begin with a leak. In many cases, the problem began years earlier, with short-term decisions that quietly reduced the asset’s lifespan. A leak disrupts operations, reactive repairs escalate, and budgets are diverted from planned works. Yet in ...

Andre Bothma, Managing Director – Strategic Asset Management & Energy at Bellrock, says facilities managers stand to benefit enormously from moving beyond a homogenous approach to managing and maintaining modern buildings When the Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) launched the ...

According to a recent survey, by SFG20, the industry standard for building maintenance, 38 per cent of facility maintenance professionals do not update their asset registers or do not know how frequently they are updated. Although the number of FM ...

Jane Nelson, Co-Founder of Cardo Group, a leading provider of building maintenance and improvement services to social housing providers and public bodies, has been appointed into the new role of Executive Chair as the company enters its next phase of ...

New data from SFG20, the industry standard for building maintenance, reveals the FM industry’s biggest challenges, from compliance and budget constraints to technology and AI adoption. According to a recent survey, 72 per cent of FM professionals stated that improving ...

By Carlo Alloni, Chief Executive, Bellrock   For over thirty years, SFG20 has served as the undisputed backbone of planned preventive maintenance across the UK built environment. It provides the structure, consistency, and auditable standards that estates teams need to ...

After months of cold temperatures, rainfall and increased footfall, winter is likely to have left its mark on commercial and industrial facilities. Yet many issues remain hidden beneath standing water or temporary fixes. Spring presents facilities managers (FMs) with a ...