David Garcia has been officially elected as the new Chair of the British Cleaning Council (BCC) at the organisations recent Annual General Meeting Garcia, who has served as Deputy Chair for two years, takes over the role from Delia Cannings. ...

Jill Nicholls has been appointed to the role of Director of Competence and Compliance at the Building Engineering Services Association (BESA). Nicholls is stepping up from her current role as Head of Service Development to replace Helen Yeulet who is moving ...

CIBSE has appointed Vince Arnold as its President for 2025–2026, officially confirmed during the Institution’s AGM on 10 June 2025. Arnold takes over the presidency from Fiona Cousins, having over four decades of experience in Building Services Engineering, a deep ...

The finalists for this year’s prestigious BICSc (British Institute of Cleaning Science) Awards have been announced after the Institute received a record number of entries for its industry-leading awards. The BICSc awards attracted a landmark surge in entries which saw ...

The 2024 AVA Census & Market Report published by the AVA: The Vending & Automated Retail Association reveals that the UK vending, coffee services, and automated retail sector has now seen the industry exceed pre-pandemic revenue for the first time. ...

David Cooper MBE has been appointed CIBSE’s President Elect for the 2025/26 term. A distinguished engineer with over 40 years of experience in the lift and escalator industry, Cooper brings unparalleled expertise and leadership to CIBSE, advancing its mission to ...

The International Property Flood Resilience Association (IPFRA) launches with a mission to support, promote, and grow the property flood resilience (PFR) sector as it becomes an increasingly mainstream part of construction and environmental resilience strategies. Until now, there has been ...

Alex Walsh has been appointed as the new Public Affairs Manager at the AVA, the leading trade body and voice for vending and 24-hour food and beverage industry. After graduating in 2015, Walsh has spent the last 10 years working for ...

The Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) has appointed Paul Eagle, Executive Board Technical Director at BESA member company Dalkia UK, as the new Chair of its Technical Committee. He succeeds Kevin Morrissey, who has recently been appointed as BESA’s new Director ...

A new professional association for the built environment has launched with the creation of the Association of Professional Standards for Asset Surveying (APSAS). The vision of the new association includes the aim ”to improve both the quality of asset surveying ...