National asset engineering firm, Edwin James Group, has committed to achieving zero to landfill and net zero by 2030 with a milestone of a 50 per cent reduction by 2025. The commitments are detailed in Edwin James Group’s first Environmental, ...

The multi-discipline facilities management company, has achieved certified carbon neutral by offsetting 1,285 tonnes of CO2e. Partnering with Ecologi, Ecoserv Group has offset its 2020 carbon footprint, covering scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions, and will maintain neutral status while ...

Aramark Northern Europe has become the first region within Aramark’s global operations to announce its commitment to become net zero carbon organisation by 2050. The carbon reduction target, based on a 2019 assessment baseline, encompasses all of Aramark Northern Europe’s ...

FMs play a critical role in meeting sustainability goals with the crucial challenge of helping to support the circular economy in order to cut carbon emissions. By recycling existing materials the highly energy-intensive production of new raw materials is reduced, ...

The UK Green Building Council (UKGBC), together with the World Green Building Council, several European Green Building Councils, Climate Alliance and the Buildings Performance Institute Europe, has published a framework to support local authorities to measure the impacts and wider ...

Around three-quarters of contributors to the Q3 RICS Facilities Management survey believe that clients consider sustainability to be either the most important or an important issue in the tendering process, a rise from 70 per cent in the last quarter. ...

Wates FM has been awarded a five-year deal with the Wellcome Genome Campus to carry out building services maintenance and minor works to the buildings and infrastructure at the pioneering biodata and genomics research campus in Cambridge. The contract, which ...

Leading FM companies have demonstrated real progress in sustainability but there must be more transparency around net zero, according to the Sustainable Facilities Management Index (SFMI) which has published the results of its annual assessments. Five FM services providers have ...

A new guide to decarbonising public sector buildings and creating a net zero public estate has been published by the Cabinet Office. The public sector estate – including offices, hospitals, prisons and job centres – is working to a target ...

The Sustainable Facilities Management Index (SFMI) and BAM FM have released part 1 of an FM industry standardised approach to measure the full extent of emissions for the delivery of FM services. This is aiming to support customers on with ...