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 ...

Style Group’s Service & Maintenance team has demonstrated the value of repairing and upgrading existing movable wall systems after successfully refurbishing a 10-year-old installation originally supplied by another company. When Parkeray found that the original supplier of their movable wall ...

Hybrid Asset Solutions has been awarded maintenance contracts with new build to rent customer ila. The Salford-based facilities management specialist has been appointed to deliver planned preventative maintenance (PPM) and reactive services at two schemes: Oldfield Wharf in Salford and ...

According to the latest forecast data from the Building Cost Information Service (BCIS) maintenance costs, as measured by the BCIS All-in Maintenance Cost Indices, are set to rise by 15.7 per cent over the five years to 1Q2031. BCIS’ updated ...

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 ...

New analysis by Property Inspect has revealed that the cost of repairing NHS buildings is on course to exceed £16 billion, as the wider maintenance backlog across the UK’s public estate approaches £50 billion. The latest data shows that hospitals ...

The British climate is nothing if not unpredictable. One morning might bring frost-covered roads and the next sudden downpour, and drivers who rely on their vehicles daily. These shifting conditions put extra strain on many of the vehicle’s components — ...

Able Managing Director, Myles Cook, explains why failed safety inspections can point to wider issues in maintenance, record keeping and day-to-day oversight Most failed safety inspections are treated as one-off problems. Something hasn’t passed, it gets repaired or taken out ...

When facilities managers review maintenance priorities, focus often falls on visible internal areas such as floors, entrances, communal spaces and high-traffic walkways. Yet some of the most operationally important parts of a facility sit outside the building itself. Loading bays, ...