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Following its Annual General Meeting, held at Saddlers Hall, London on 7 July, the Association for Specialist Fire Protection (ASFP) has announced the election of its new Council. Council members are elected each year, while the chair and vice chair ...

The Trustees of the leading professional body for the resource and waste management sector, CIWM, have elected Liz Parkes as Chair of General Council. Parkes, who has been a trustee of CIWM since 2021 and of CIWM Enterprises before that, ...

The Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) has elected Robert (Rab) Fletcher to serve as its President for 2022/23. The new President is mechanical services team manager at Fife Council Building Services. He has more than 30 years’ experience in construction ...

The Institute of Hospitality’s (IoH) Bursary Fund has helped over 120 talented individuals obtain IoH membership and say #imin, since its launch in January 2022. Established as part of the IoH’s Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and in line with the ...

The International Facility Management Association (IFMA) has announced the member-elected Executive Committee and Appointees to its Global Board of Directors for the 2022-23 fiscal year. With members based in Italy, Trinidad and Tobago, Mexico, Canada, Brazil, Singapore, Spain and the ...

Lord Michael Bichard has today (21 June) published the Bichard RICS Review into the Institution’s Purpose, Governance and Strategy, which RICS Governing Council commissioned last December. The review was a key recommendation of Alison Levitt QC’s report into historic issues ...

Business leader and electrical engineer, Steve Murray, has been named as the new President of the UK’s leading engineering services trade association, the ECA. Murray jointly owns WT Jenkins Ltd, an electrical contractor based in Liverpool, which he joined in ...

The Association for Specialist Fire Protection (ASFP) has released three new and three updated documents which cover the structural fire protection of steel beams with corrugated webs, the firestopping of metal pipes, and planned maintenance. The new Advisory Notes 27, ...

IWFM has announced the details of this year’s conference which “promises” to leave delegates inspired to be their own ‘agent of change’ – the theme for this year’s event. Taking place on Wednesday 8 June at 30 Euston Square, London, ...

The British Cleaning Council (BCC) has urgently called on the All-Party Parliamentary Group for the Cleaning and Hygiene Industry to drive progress on key issues affecting the sector. Senior figures at the BCC are concerned that there has been a ...