At Facilities & Estates Management Live, Wayne Young chaired a session that brought together leaders from the three main institutes that represent FM and the built environment. The panel discussed the key role played by the IWFM, RICS and CIBSE ...

The UK Green Building Council’s (UKGBC) Trends Report 2025, details major shifts that shaped the built environment this year along with key themes to look out for in 2026. Drawing on insights from sustainability and innovation experts across industry as ...

CIBSE’s recent conference, ‘Building Performance Reimagined – What’s Next?’, brought together senior engineers, architects, innovators and policymakers at the Royal Society in London to explore the evolving challenges and opportunities within building performance. Aligned with 2024–25 CIBSE President Fiona Cousins’ ...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has released its 2025 Sustainability Report, revealing a slowdown in global demand growth for sustainable buildings and a concerning lack of progress in carbon measurement across construction projects. The report, based on insight ...

Across the industry, FM teams are struggling with incomplete asset registers, inconsistent data, and manual processes that slow operations, drive up costs, and increase compliance risk. Now SFG20’s new software module, is set to save building owners and service providers ...

Lucy Jeynes, a respected figure in the facilities management sector and founding Director of Leamington-based Larch Consulting, has been appointed Chair of Governors at South & City College Birmingham (SCCB). Over a 35-year FM career, Jeynes has advised major organisations ...

James Massey, Managing Director for Facilities Management at MRI Software explains why the future of facilities lies in intelligent energy and building management In the modern built environment, the pressure on facilities managers has never been greater. Rising energy costs, ...

JLL’s 2025 Global Consumer Experience Survey reveals how shifting spatial experience preferences are poised to reshape the built environment. The global survey of 12,000 consumers across 19 markets and 64 cities uncovers that while consumers are increasingly drawn to AI-enabled ...

With the UK set to record its warmest summer on record, the Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) is calling for urgent action to tackle the growing number of buildings that overheat. The Association says the rising number of deaths linked ...

Tom Garrigan, Executive Director at BSRIA says combining accurate building data with occupant insights can deliver retrofit programmes that are evidence-based, cost-effective, and resilient With 85 per cent of the buildings that will be in use by 2050 already built, ...