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Cardo takes £8m deal with social landlord Caredig

Cardo, a provider of building maintenance services to social housing providers and public bodies, has secured a planned maintenance contract with social landlord Caredig. The contract, which will run for an initial two years, with an option to extend for ...

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WPS awarded 15-year responsive maintenance contract

WPS has won a responsive maintenance contract, valued at £150 million, with social housing provider Notting Hill Genesis (NHG) as a Primary Tier One contractor. The new deal for an initial five years – with two additional five-year extensions – ...

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One in 10 social rented homes still fail basic standards

One in 10 social rented homes in England continue to fall below the government’s Decent Homes Standard – the equivalent of nearly 430,000 properties, according to new analysis from property inspection software platform, Inventory Base. This comes as the social ...

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Cardo Group awarded 12 lots on Greener Futures Partnership DPS

Cardo Group, a provider of building maintenance services to social housing providers and public bodies, has secured a place on 12 lots of the Greener Futures Partnership’s (GFP) Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS), supporting the delivery of warmer, more comfortable, and ...

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Pennington Choices joins Mears Group

Mears Group, a leading provider of services to the housing sector, has strengthened its building services and compliance offering with the acquisition of property surveying and consultancy, Pennington Choices Limited. The Warrington-based property consultancy is well-established with 25 years’ experience in ...

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Lucion appointed to £94m Social Housing Asbestos and Demolition Framework

UK-based hazardous materials specialist, Lucion Services, has been named as one of 54 contractors appointed to EN:Procure’s Generation 4 Asbestos and Demolition Framework. The new framework, which is set to deliver £93.75 million worth of asbestos removal and demolition works ...

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Polyteck appointed to £2bn Procurement Assist framework agreement

Construction and facilities management firm, Polyteck, has been appointed to a four-year framework agreement with Procurement Assist for the supply and installation of kitchens and bathrooms in social housing across London. Under the framework, Polyteck will be able to tender ...

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Social housing expert joins Novus as head of operations 

Jason Smithies, an expert on social housing repairs and maintenance has been appointed as Head of Operations for Scotland and the Northeast at Novus Property Solutions. Smithies brings to the national maintenance and decarbonisation contractor more than two decades of ...

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Work gets underway for Equans on major decarbonisation programme

Equans has embarked on the delivery of a major decarbonisation programme for hundreds of social housing properties in Hertfordshire. Delivering the retrofit works on behalf of Sovereign Network Group (SNG), the programme will improve the energy efficiency of 372 social ...

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LOCTITE to build strong bonds with facilities managers at ASCP Conference

Global adhesives manufacturer LOCTITE® is exhibiting at the Association of Safety and Compliance Professionals (ASCP) Conference 2025 to highlight how its range of solutions can help companies across the housing and communities sector to improve safety on their premises. Both ...

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