By Lee Mills (pictured above), Service Director, Citation With the UK having experienced one of the hottest summers on record, and temperatures rising year-on-year, it’s vital that construction firms build this into their long-term plans and proactively manage heat-related risks ...

With the UK set to record its warmest summer on record, the Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) is calling for urgent action to tackle the growing number of buildings that overheat. The Association says the rising number of deaths linked ...

With UK employers calling staff back to the office faster than at any time since the pandemic, energy efficiency experts are warning that whilst the desks are already filling up, the buildings themselves may not be ready. A new survey ...

Off the back of Storm Floris, which recently brought 90mph winds and torrential rain to the UK, posing significant disruption to operations across the north of England and Scotland, site managers are being urged energy solutions and temperature control specialist, ...

The Society of Public Health Engineers (SoPHE), a society within CIBSE, welcomes the publication of the Independent Water Commission’s Final Report and strongly supports its call for transformational reform across the UK’s water sector. This report arrives at a pivotal ...

The TUC has organised a “week of action” with more than 1,000 trade union health and safety reps signed up to take part in a nationwide inspection of workplaces this week for heat safety.    With the UK in the ...

New analysis calls for urgent attention to building performance as inefficient systems overheat both offices and the planet. As heatwaves push UK temperatures above 30°C, new analysis by building analytics platform Demand Logic reveals that operational inefficiencies in UK office ...

Amid forecasts of a major boom in UK construction, Aggreko is advising construction managers to take steps to protect site productivity and worker welfare as extreme heat increasingly becomes the norm on building sites nationwide. The call follows the Glenigan ...

A new report from energy solutions specialist, Aggreko, has found that more than 70 per cent of UK construction managers have experienced major weather-related delays to projects in the last 12 months, underscoring the threat that extreme weather poses to ...

FM services provider, Bidvest Noonan, has signed up to ‘Accelerate’, the Business Pact for Climate and Nature. The company, a long-standing member of Business in the Community, is one of the first signatories of this forward-thinking initiative launched by Business ...