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Q3 Services recognised for outstanding carbon reduction

FM solutions provider, Q3 Services, has been recognised for its commitment to sustainability, winning the Carbon Reduction per Employee Award at the Planet Mark Awards 2025. The award celebrates Q3’s impressive 79 per cent reduction in carbon emissions per employee, ...

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UK Net Zero Carbon Buildings Standard moves closer to launch this winter

UK Net Zero Carbon Buildings Standard (UK NZCBS) has announced Bureau Veritas as the preferred bidder for the role of the Standard’s Verification Administrator. As preferred bidder in the second stage of the tender for the role, Bureau Veritas is ...

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ISS and Coolfood launch low-carbon meals in UK primary schools

ISS has launched a new low-carbon initiative into its primary school menus in the UK, working alongside partner Coolfood — an initiative run by World Resources Institute (WRI), a global non-profit — to cut food-related emissions across the education sector. ...

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Supporting the supply chain

Hannah Dales of Churchill Group explains the critical role that FM firms have to play in supporting their supply chain with reducing emissions, from education to providing helpful templates and tools As the drive for sustainability accelerates, one of the ...

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Free innovation tool to help identify sustainable solutions for commercial retrofit projects launches

A free commercial retrofit solutions tool designed to ‘deliver meaningful sustainability’ has launched. The Commercial Retrofit Innovation Map, launched for use by industry as part of an initiative between UK Green Building Council (UKGBC), Breakthrough Energy and Fore Partnership, seeks ...

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Carbon offsets land companies in court as climate washing cases rise

Emissions are being cut abroad, but pollution stays at home. Experts in energy management stress that companies need to prove that they cut emissions on their own sites instead of offsetting them elsewhere in the world. Corporate Accountability’s report, released ...

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Veolia to help deliver major carbon and energy savings on hospital decarbonisation project

Resource management company, Veolia, is helping the Royal United Hospitals (RUH) Bath NHS Foundation Trust to decarbonise its Combe Park estate following the start of a major upgrade that will deliver a carbon reduction of approximately 25 per cent from ...

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UK circular economy furniture business saves over 111,000 kg CO2e in first half of 2025

UK circular economy specialist in the workplace furniture sector, Recycle Scotland, has announced that projects completed in the first six months of 2025 have saved over 111,000 kg CO2e, demonstrating the substantial environmental benefits of keeping workplace furniture in the circular ...

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The leaks you can’t ignore: Turning frustration into a facilities management fix

By Frank Hogg, Industrial Problem Solver, Blackpool “No one had time to listen. So I built a tool that made them pay attention.” — Frank Hogg I’ve spent over 25 years in manufacturing facilities, industrial estates, and commercial buildings. Across ...

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London’s evolving Skyline misses opportunity to support a more circular economy

The record-breaking demolition of St Helen’s tower, the tallest building to be demolished in the capital, highlights London’s missed opportunity to reuse 49,000 tonnes of demolished concrete to permanently store and remove hundreds of tonnes of CO₂ from the atmosphere. ...

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