Optimum Group Services has officially changed its name to BGIS Global Integrated Solutions Limited. Canada-based BGIS acquired UK building services provider, Optimum Group Services in 2020, and since then the BGIS Senior leadership team has worked closely with the UK ...

The mechanical and electrical building services specialist has won a £7.25 million-plus contract for a new housing development in Hounslow. J S Wright will upgrade existing heating systems and equip 260 new apartments within the first stage of Lampton Parkside, ...

National M&E specialist, Linaker, has secured a three-year building services deal with KFC. Following a competitive tender, Linaker was awarded the contract to provide full building services across KFC’s 53 sites as it continues to roll out its nationwide self-delivery ...

Shortlisted for the Reinforced Bitumen Membranes category of the UK Roofing Awards 2021, the Natural History Museum at Tring, demonstrates that a close working relationship between contractor and manufacturer can accelerate, simplify and streamline a complex roofing contract. Originally built ...

Former CBI President Paul Drechsler has highlighted the key role the building engineering sector will play in addressing climate change but said it would need to compete harder for talent to address its skills challenges. Speaking at the annual Building ...

Situated within the former London 2012 Athletes’ Village, N06 in East Village is set to provide 524 build-to-rent homes delivered with an award-winning offsite construction approach. This includes a modular and onsite building services specification featuring Kingspan Kooltherm Pipe Insulation ...

The latest sector-wide Building Engineering Business Survey, which includes data from industry trade bodies ECA, BESA, SELECT and SNIPEF, has found that while turnover is predicted to grow through the rest of 2021, ongoing materials and labour shortages are likely to ...

Building services provider J S Wright has been awarded a contract worth more than £6 million to help turn a derelict canal-side site in Birmingham into a quality residential-led development. The mechanical and electrical specialist will install the mechanical infrastructure ...

Surrey-based Panthera Group launched its latest hoarding innovation; the sustainable and environmentally friendly EnviroHoard™, in March 2020 just before the Covid lockdown. Despite the effects of the pandemic, the system has been specified by key players in the construction sector ...

Coventry University is laying the groundwork for future developments in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) with a new, state-of-the-art postgraduate facility, completed with a building service specification featuring premium performance Kingspan Kooltherm Pipe Insulation and Kingspan Therma Duct Insulation. ...