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Clean Air Day Survey Reveals 83% of People Want to Know More About Indoor Pollution

A survey conducted for Clean Air Day found that 83 per cent of respondents wanted to know more about the air quality inside their homes, 1/6 said they...

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Contractors Needed for £260m Public Sector Framework

A framework to deliver a range of housing and non-residential refurbishment and retrofit works in the UK is now available for contractors to apply...

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Incoming CIBSE President Outlines Engineering Industry Challenges

CIBSE President Adrian Catchpole has highlighted the importance of leadership in engineering in his Presidential Address. He also outlined the...

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BESA Launches Indoor Air Quality Training for Clean Air Day

The Building Engineering Services Association is marking 2023’s National Clean Air Day with new IAQ training materials. The theme of this...

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Part L Regulations – Are You Ready for the Changes?

With the grace period for compliance with the updated Part L Building Regulations ending, Alex Minett, Head of Products and Markets at CHAS,...

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Lord Calls for ‘Nightingale Style’ Approach in New Hospitals Programme

Lord Markham CBE has stated that the New Hospital Programme will only be possible by radically transforming the way building engineering projects are...

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Q3 Wins Maintenance Contract With Grosvenor Waterside in Chelsea

Q3 Services Group has secured the residential maintenance contract with GWRC (Grosvenor Waterside Resident's Company Ltd), the...

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Building Services Apprenticeships Chosen for Royal Recognition

The Building Engineering Services Association has praised the selection of low-carbon heating and sustainable engineering qualifications for...

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Failure to Retrofit Buildings Could Spark New Energy Crisis

The Building Engineering Services Association predicts that the failure to retrofit commercial buildings to meet net-zero targets could to ignite a...

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SFG20 Launches Online Tool to Help FMs Estimate Maintenance Costs

A digital tool to help facilities managers accurately price the specific maintenance requirements of any building has been launched by SFG20. The...

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Polish FM Company Sescom Acquires PCB Technical Solutions Limited

Sescom, an FM contractor based in Gdańsk, has bought M&E company PCB Technical Solutions Limited. The move will allow Sescom to expand its...

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CIBSE and CABE Launch Building Performance Week

CIBSE’s Build2Perform and CABE’s New Built Environment Live will take place together at London’s ExCeL in December 2023. The two...

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Modern Slavery Rules Changing from 1 April 2023

Updated guidance on identifying and managing the risk of modern slavery in supply chains will soon apply. Alex Minett from CHAS looks at what’s...

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BESA Highlights Importance of Spatial Awareness in Building Services

The Building Engineering Services Association has revealed best practice for allowing adequate spacing between building services in projects. In a...

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How Highgate Cemetery is Using BIM to Preserve its Site

BIM-enabled models and point cloud technology have been used to extensively survey Highgate Cemetery, as part of a masterplan to secure its...

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BESA Wins Best Use of Technology Award

The Building Engineering Services Association has won the Best Use of Technology Award at the Trade Association Awards 2023 for its Ventilation...

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Report Recommends a ‘Technology Agnostic’ Approach to Decarbonising Buildings

A report that assesses government plans to decarbonise heat and buildings has been published. The report, from the Sustainable Energy Association...

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BESA Criticises Lack of Diversity in Heating and Hot Water Industry

New research shows that 2 per cent of the heating and hot water industry sector’s workforce are women and only 5 per cent are from an ethnic...

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BCIA Releases New Technical Guides

The Building Controls Industry Association has published two new technical guides that cover building assessment schemes and regulations for...

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BESA President’s Lunch 2023

The answer to many of the UK’s serious social and economic challenges could be solved by its engineering community, said the President of...

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