Maintenance costs, as measured by the BCIS All-in Maintenance Cost Indices, are set to rise 15 per cent by 2Q2030, according to the latest forecast data from the Building Cost Information Service (BCIS). Cleaning costs, mainly driven by labour costs, ...

Brent Council has awarded a five-year responsive repairs and maintenance contract to Mears Group. The contract, valued at circa £3.1 million per annum, went live last week. The service, which Mears says is aligned to Brent Council’s vision for a ...

Morgan Sindall Property Services (MSPS) has been awarded a three-year hard facilities management contract, valued at £4.5 million, with Thames Valley Police (TVP). Under this new contract, which strengthens a partnership spanning over a decade, the MSPS team will provide ...

Lanes Group’s rail division has won two major contracts to provide track vegetation management and fencing repair, plus fencing renewal across the entire London Underground network. The contracts, awarded by Transport for London (TfL), will run for five years with ...

A number of UK universities are set to face an estimated £1.4 billion government funding cut, as reported by UUK, for the academic year 2025-2026. Universities UK has reported that 117 of 270 higher education institutions registered with the Office ...

Cardo, a provider of building maintenance services to social housing providers and public bodies, has secured a place on Notting Hill Genesis’s (NHG) £1.5 billion Repairs and Maintenance Works Framework. The partnership, which will span up to 15 years, supports the ...

Property services business, Liberty, has secured three significant contracts with ForHousing, delivering a total asset management solution for the housing association to further improve services to tenants. The trio of awards, which have the potential to continue up to 10 ...

Mears Group has been awarded a £230 million contract to deliver day-to-day repairs and maintenance services to more than 11,000 homes in Milton Keynes, working on behalf of Milton Keynes City Council (MKCC), over a five-year term. Awarded following a ...

According to the latest five-year 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 19 per cent by 1Q2030. Cleaning costs, mainly driven by labour ...

WPS Facilities Management, part of Wates Group, has renewed its hard FM services contract with West Midlands Police for a further two years, with the option to extend for another three. The contract renewal sees the continuation of a partnership ...