The Building Safety Alliance – a collaborative group of stakeholders from the occupation phase with over 70 declared supporters from a wide range of organisations across the sector – have announced their intention to become a charity. The alliance, which ...

Global real estate services firm, JLL, has appointed James Allan as CEO, Middle East and Africa (MEA), to drive its ambitious growth agenda in the region. Allan, who has been working at JLL for 15 years, taking on increasing levels ...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has been granted observer status for this year’s United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28), to be held from 30 November to 12 December at Expo City, Dubai. The institution, representing more than 134,000 ...

Aramark UK has teamed up with Edible Straws to offer a sustainable solution to single-use straws across Merlin sites in the UK, such as Chessington World of Adventure Resort, LEGOLAND® Windsor Resort and Alton Towers Resort. Edible Straws emerged as ...

Apleona, a leading European integrated FM company based in Neu-Isenburg near Frankfurt (Main), has acquired technical facilities management firm, JCW Group Limited (JCW). Based in Royston, Cambridgeshire, JCW offers a full range of self-delivered hard services through its team of over ...

A five-year contract extension valued at £10 million has been confirmed between VINCI Facilities and Cancer Research UK (CRUK) for the delivery of hard FM services across circa 600 locations across the CRUK estate. CRUK and VINCI Facilities have worked ...

Mitie Group has acquired JCA Engineering, a leading critical environment project designer and principal contractor, for a maximum cash consideration of £31.5 million (comprising an initial payment of £21 million and deferred payments of up to £10.5 million over three ...

The period from April to June 2023 saw record demand for data centres with 114 MW of take-up across Europe’s leading markets of Frankfurt, London, Amsterdam, Paris and Dublin (FLAP-D), according to JLL’s EMEA Data Centres Q2 2023 report. This ...

The construction and infrastructure services group has promoted James Martin to Health, Safety, Wellbeing & Sustainability Director and Head of the Group’s Responsible Business team. Martin joined Kier on the Group’s graduate programme in 1999 and has gone on to ...

Landmarc Support Services has promised its continuing support to SSAFA, the Armed Forces Charity following the award of a £560 million, seven-year contract by the Defence Infrastructure organisation, to manage the UK Defence Training Estate. Landmarc provides the facilities management, ...