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The Hays UK Salary & Recruiting Trends 2018 guide shows that businesses have an optimistic outlook, with 59% expecting their business activity to...
FM provider ABM?UK has reached an agreement with ChargePoint, the electric vehicle (EV) charging network. ABM now has the rights to distribute,...
On November 29, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, in close cooperation with the Luneburg Central Criminal Investigation Inspectorate in Germany,...
The Government's Industrial strategy is only viable if it tackles the skills gap, say employers while a new report reveals there is a lack of...
English councils and their evil contractor cohorts made a record £819 million from parking operations in the last financial year. This is 40%...
Attacks in London and Manchester between March and June 2017 The UK is facing an intense threat from terrorism according to all that commented on...
As HMRC begin notifying construction firms of the need to carry out status checks on the self-employed subcontractors they engage, tax specialist Qdos...
Tell your friends not to drink drive this festive period says the latest THINK! campaign which started on December 7. For this year’s...
Thursday evening, November 30, McDonalds Restaurants discovered the hard way that a relationship with a contractor - in this case, employing cheap,...
On the evening of December 4, facilities management services provider and engineering firm, ABM UK launched its Junior Engineering Engagement...
The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has strengthened his commitment to protect London’s Green Belt and other important open spaces for future...
In one year, the energy saving additive EndoTherm has helped RBS to reduce its energy consumption by 29% and carbon emissions by 10 tonnes. The new...
Local authorities and bus companies in Bristol, York, Brighton, Surrey, Denbighshire and Wiltshire have been awarded 11 million funding under the...
A teenager was convicted on November 27 of planning to drive a car into a crowd of people in Cardiff in a Daesh-inspired terror attack. Targets he...
On Tuesday 21, the Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain (IWGB) filed what could turn out to be a landmark test case. The IWGB will...
The Work and Pensions and Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committees have published a joint report and draft Bill to close the loopholes that...
A Public Accounts Committee report has slated the Government for its Hinkley Point power deal with EDF and their Chinese backers and insisted the...
Chancellor Philip Hammond has presented his Budget to Parliament – here's a summary of what was announced. Employment There...
GMB members employed as ancillary staff by contractor Mitie at Sellafield are to strike on Wednesday, November 29 over below inflation wage increases...
Connected toys with Bluetooth, wi-fi and mobile apps may seem like the perfect gift for Christmas. But Which? has found that, without...
November 15 saw one person rescued via appliances and others led to safety by firefighters after a major blaze broke out in a block of high rise flats...
According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS) main measure of labour productivity July to September (Quarter 3) 2017 saw an rise increase by...
Integrated facilities management (IFM) continues to represent the fastest growing segment of the European facility management industry and the...
Sodexo and Olympus Partners has announced (Nov 15) that Sodexo has signed an agreement to acquire Centerplate, Inc. a provider of food and beverage,...
Ahead of Road Safety Week (20-26 November 2017), Vision Express has ramped up its MP lobbying in a bid to make the UK’s roads safer by raising...
A senior West Midlands Police officer has been suspended after being summonsed for an offence under the Official Secrets Act. Assistant Chief...
Hello Fresh, Macquarie, Zpg, Expedia and Moo are just some of the big names participating in Workplace Week 2017 to showcase...
The Real Living Wage hourly rates have increased (on Nov 6) to £8.75 in the rest of the UK and £10.20 in London - that's £1.25...
The 2017 Living Wage report for KPMG found that one in five people (21 per cent) in the UK are still earning below the Real Living Wage, meaning that...
Heathrow will become the first Living Wage Airport. This recognition will see 3,200 airport workers being paid the Real Living Wage by the end of 2020...
As the Prime Minister oversees sleaze in Parliament (including the ex-Defence Secretary the 'Right Honourable' Michael Fallon resigning from...
Leisure centres could fall into a state of disrepair and even be forced to close without urgent new investment from government, councils have...
The opening stage of the Employment Tribunal fee refund scheme has been launched with the first people eligible to apply from now. The first stage...
The RIBA Stirling Prize judges have decided they really do like being beside the sea as they have voted their top prize to the fabulously restored...
Security relating to Heathrow Airport have been found on a data stick lying on a pavement in West London. The highly sensitive information included...
Living Wage Week takes place each year during the first week of November. It is a great opportunity to raise awareness of the work undertaken by...
BBC - Here is the News The Beeb will continue receiving its FM from Interserve in a £140 million contract running until 2023. This latest...
London’s iconic Piccadilly Lights were switched back to life on October 26 after a nine month period of renovation. A spectacular display of...
The National Fire Chiefs Council is calling for all new school builds or refurbishments to have sprinklers fitted - a policy that is mandatory in...
Fiona Bowman is a successful senior facilities manager. On October 31 she will become a published author when her first book, Did I Wake You Pet? is...
On Tuesday October 4, David Clarke, aged 53, of Nuneaton, was charged with two counts of false imprisonment, one count of criminal damage, two counts...
Construction companies, contractors and suppliers interested in working on Cardiff University’s £300 million Innovation Campus are being...
“The time is ripe, even overdue, to take a cold, hard look at what a highly disruptive technology could do to the industry.” So says...
Friday the 13th was not a good day for Adam Jammeh, his employer - Total Security Services; or Tesco where Jammeh worked as a security guard up until...
Crown Commercial Service (CCS) are to host an event to update prospective suppliers from across the UK on the government’s new Facilities...
BBC Children in Need, The Royal Mint and HM Treasury are encouraging individuals and companies to donate any left-over round Pounds to the Children in...
Between 3:00pm and 10:00pm on Mon October 16 a spell of very windy weather is expected over parts of the UK - Northern Ireland and the north of...
In an unusual show of unity and accord, four Conservative MPs have managed to get together without contradicting each other to launch the UK's...
A moped gang who carried out more than 100 robberies in a period of less than three weeks were jailed on Wednesday, October 11 for a total exceeding...
Eight fire engines and 58 firefighters and officers tackled a fire on the ground floor of a London Metropolitan University complex on Holloway Road on...
ABM has taken a further foothold in Northern Ireland with the opening of a dedicated office in Belfast and the appointment of a country manager tasked...
The availability of measurement models that accurately reflect return-on-investment is often the biggest hurdle in the design, construction and...
Individuals and organisations driving innovation and delivering exceptional results in facilities management stepped into the spotlight when the...
Anyone still holding the old round £1 coin, that as of October 16 is no longer legal tender, might try to pass them on. So get the vending...
The Conservative Party conference ended with PM Theresa May coughing her way through her speech and being handed a P45...while Bojo swiped at everyone...
MRI Software has acquired Qube Global Software, a UK based provider of property and facilities management Solutions. The acquisition, according to...
Two former security guards have been found guilty of a conspiracy to steal £7 million after a three week trial at Kingston Crown...
Detectives in Westminster are hunting for a moped gang wanted in connection with a series of raids at high value designer stores. Since early...
A man has appeared before Westminster Magistrates' Court charged with terrorism offences. Warren Sneddon, 44, of Welwyn Garden City,...
Yahoo has announced (week ending Oct 6) that it is providing notice to additional user accounts affected by an August 2013 data theft previously...
Monday Oct 2 marked the beginning of National Work Life Week, a campaign aimed at giving both employers and employees the opportunity to focus on...
Would you believe it - there's been another explosion on a London Underground train. This time on Tues 26 when the emergency services were called...
After a week of typically autumnal weather – with foggy nights, pleasant sunshine and periods of wind and rain – a more unsettled spell of...
Unless employers are offered more support around the Levy, the initiative will ultimately fail according to new research from the West London...
The European Commission has launched the pilot phase of ‘Level(s)’, a new EU- framework for sustainable buildings. It is the first tool of...
A new report on the UK facilities management market has found a softening of growth in outsourcing demand as Brexit jitters continue, though forecasts...
“Despite the increased political and macro-economic uncertainty following the UK’s EU referendum and recent general election, our outlook...
In his speech of September 25 to the Labour Party Conference in Brighton, Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell said on arrival in Government, his party...
The head of the National Police Chiefs' Council, Chief Constable Sara Thornton, has said resources are being stretched to breaking point by the...
In the week ending Sept 22, Leesman launched ‘The Next 250k’, a global report based on the evaluation results from more than 250,000...
The London fire Brigade has claimed more people will die in fires caused by faulty white goods such as tumble dryers unless the Government takes...
Twenty five fire engines and around 140 firefighters and officers were called to a fire at a warehouse on White Hart Lane in Tottenham on Monday 18...
An 18-year old man was due to appear in court on the afternoon of Friday September 22 (2:00pm) charged with attempted murder over the Parsons...
The RMT has called further strike all across the country. Guards and driver members will strike between 12:01am and 11:59pm on Tuesday October 3...
The Government has outlined (week ending Sept 22) protections and flexibilities for the financial services, journalism and legal services as part of...
The High Court has said that new rules brought in by the UK government which made it harder for people in England and Wales to go to court to protect...
All the emergency services - fire, police, ambulance are currently attending an explosion on a train at Parsons Green Tube station. Deputy...
Now is the time for action on sprinklers in residential high-rise buildings and schools, London Fire Commissioner Dany Cotton has warned as the...
Following Storm Aileen, the next 21 storm names have been announced so you know who will be trying to knock things on or off your building from now to...
Four men have been jailed for their involvement in burglaries at companies in the South-East. The men, who had previously pleaded guilty to two...
The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has encouraged leading TV and radio broadcasters to work with him to help inform Londoners in particular and the...
An 73-year old woman pedestrian, struck by a cyclist on Tuesday 12 at about 4:30pm died in the early hours of Wednesday - Cycle To Work Day. Calls...
The Cordant Group, a massive recruitment business with a substantial FM services arm has become a Social Enterprise. Meaning the majority of the...
Propelair, a ThisWeekinFM Partner, has seen Investec and fund managers Earth Capital Partners (ECP) and Universal Partners (UP) make a substantial...
Workers in the maintenance, parlours and security departments at the Bank of England have announced an end to their pay dispute. They have struck...
September 1 saw ABM announce (in New York) that it had completed its acquisition of GCA Services Group for approximately $1.25 billion, consisting of...
In to the firing line On Monday (Sept 4) ThisWeekinFM asked the Metropolitan Police: Why did the Police attending the incident choose to evacuate...
Carillion, the international integrated support services business employ around 43,000 people and operating in the UK, Canada and Middle East has...
Merlin Entertainments, the biggest ride and attraction company in the UK and with sites across the world, have suffered another embarrassment as 14...
The security arrangements at the Oval for Thursday 31's cricket match between Middlesex and Surrey have been slammed by ThisWeekinFM's own eye...
More than 160 years after the invention of the conventional elevator, Thyssen Krupp has unveiled the first functional multi-directional lift at a 246...
Wednesday August 30 saw a 'good' service on most of the SouthWest Rail train services after Tuesday's fiasco when South Western Railway...
My, my, passengers at Waterloo on Tuesday and passengers from Kent for the rest of the week - at least - will be meeting their destiny in quite a...
London Bridge - Falling Down Laughing You couldn't make it up - the comedy of British railway services! Waterloo Station's re-opening went...
A Centre for Health and the Public Interest (a supposedly independent body) report out this week ending Sept 1 looks at the profits made by PFI...
Driven by the need to improve HVAC performance and reliability, cutting downtime while reducing maintenance costs, the US market for Smart...
London bus passengers face potentially severe disruption this weekend as peace talks, designed to resolve a pay dispute concerning support staff,...
The latest in the government’s series of fire safety tests of cladding and insulation combinations has been completed by the Building Research...
Fifteen fire engines and 97 firefighters and officers tackled a blaze at a discount store on Old Church Road in Chingford, Essex on the night of Aug...
ThisWeekinFM has had a response to an enquiry last week regarding the detonation of an unexploded WW2 bomb in the estuary at Hinkley Point that saw...
Date: August 21 - Construction company fined after worker fell from height A construction company has been fined after a worker suffered life...
The Government will soon be introducing its new Data Protection Bill to Parliament. With this almost certain to come into effect next May,...
Britain’s top firms and charities urgently need to do more to protect themselves from online threats, according to new Government research and a...
On Wednesday 16, 233 employers were named and shamed by The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy for underpaying their workers the...
During an interview on BBC Radio 4’s ‘Today’ programme on Friday, August 11, Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley, head of National...
The massive Blochairn fruit market in Glasgow caught fire on the morning of Thurs Aug 17. 400 workers who had just signed on for their early hours...
The Metropolitan Police Service is still investigating the smash & grab, moped robbery of a jewellers in the poshest part of Chelsea. Police...
The Garden Bridge Trust, the charity established to build and run the proposed Garden Bridge in central London, announced this week ending Aug 18 that...
Since ThisWeekinFM reported this story on Monday Aug 14, MPs, concerned the Bell & Chimes would be silenced for too long, have intervened to...
SOAS University of London is to stop outsourcing its core support services to private contractors from September 2018. The announcement was made by...
Transport for London has awarded a new cleaning contract to ABM UK meaning 2,800 people will be guaranteed the London Living Wage. ABM has also...
New figures underline journey time increase New research from the GMB shows how average journey times to work have slowed down over the last five...
As the government continues its fire testing programme in the wake of the Grenfell fire, another blow to council housing blocks in London (which may...
In a statement of intent (made on Monday 7), the government has committed to updating and strengthening data protection laws through a new Data...
Ground Control has strengthened its winter maintenance capabilities through the acquisition of Litter Boss, claiming the acquisition of increases...
An energy supply and services partnership between Engie and Yorkshire Water will see Engie supply energy to the water company whilst the two companies...
The world’s largest lithium ion battery will be installed in South Australia under an historic agreement between French renewable energy company...
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has received a report on fire safety in the Trauma Unit at the John Radcliffe Hospital. An...
The New South Wales Joint Counter Terrorism Team have charge a 49-year old and a 32-year old (on Thursday 3) with two counts of acts done in...
There's double trouble in store for business energy costs, with organisations being hit by rising wholesale prices, as well as non-energy charges,...
Service Works Group (SWG), the international provider of facilities, property and workplace management software, has been acquired by Addnode Group, a...
As part of its new Greener Living campaign, which launches on August 1, Kier Living, part of the Kier Group, has partnered with Forest Carbon, a...
The Bidvest Group has completed an agreement with the majority shareholder in Noonan, Alchemy Partners LLP, which will see Bidvest acquire the entire...
It was the union, UNISON that won a landmark court victory on Wednesday July 26 against the government, which means that employment tribunal fees will...
The Home Secretary Amber Rudd has (on July 27 - at least a year too late according to most observers) commissioned the Migration Advisory Committee to...
Corporate Manslaughter charges are being considered by the Metropolitan Police against executives and council heads at the Kensington and Chelsea...
The Transport Secretary Chris Grayling and Mayor of London Sadiq Khan have met to discuss the way forward for Crossrail 2. They agreed that there is...
New analysis by Which? reveals that there has been virtually no progress on fixing dire satisfaction scores for the handling of rail delays...
The night of Tuesday 25 July saw smoke visible for miles following a fire near the Royal Docks. Fire Brigade 999 Control Officers took around 35...
The government, in the form of Environment Minister Michael Gove, confirmed on Wednesday 26 that it will end the sale of all new...
The UK building and facilities services sector has grown by £15 billion since 2011, with a total UK market value of £125 billion in 2016,...
Wednesday July 19 saw the The Local Government Association call on the government to launch an urgent and immediate review of building...
The RMT, has suspended both driver and guards strike action on Southern Rail after Secretary of State, Chris Grayling, approached the union for direct...
Chris Grayling, the Transport Secretary has confirmed HS2 routes to the North-West, East Midlands and Yorkshire - claiming the decision is set to...
Burnt Oak Ten fire engines and 72 firefighters and officers were called to a fire in Watling Avenue in Edgware. A single storey workshop at the...
SPIE UK has been awarded an £8 Million contract (by Kier Construction) for mechanical and electrical works at East Ayrshire Council’s new...
The UK Government has been in Court over prohibitive costs rules for environmental cases. The Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice...
A school finance manager who stole £46,000 of dinner money has been jailed. Jacqueline Robb was jailed last week at Manchester Crown Court, for...
Consultation on proposals to reduce planning restrictions along the HS1 route started on Monday July 10 on proposals to reduce planning restrictions...
The government’s £400 million Digital Infrastructure Investment Fund (DIIF) is set to unlock over £1 billion for full fibre...
Surrey Police have contacted ThisWeekinFM and asked us to correct inaccuracies - which they accept full responsibility for as they relate, in the...
Ten fire engines and around 70 firefighters and officers were called to a fire in Camden Lock Market at just before midnight on Sunday evening (July...
Sadiq Khan (Mayor of London) has announced that the most polluting buses in the capital are going to be cleaned up, with their harmful emissions cut...
ClientEarth is a high-powered group of environmental lawyers and activists. They say a High Court judgment delivered on Wednesday July 5 on air...
A fire in a basement on London's Oxford Street might have been small in intensity but turned-out to be large in terms of disruption but not quite...
A young man, teenager Haroon Ali Syed, whose PIN code for his phone was 'ISIS' was sentenced to life imprisonment on Monday June 3. He will...
Western University neuroscientist Adrian Owen has launched the world’s largest sleep and cognition study to help researchers learn the effects...
As morally reprehensible as allowing an AussieAmericano media mafia family an even bigger stake in UK news outlets, the government was due to announce...
Sajid Javid has said a new independent expert advisory panel will be appointed to advise on measures to be put in place following the Grenfell Tower...
Rail passengers suffer the equivalent of fifty-four million hours in wasted time a year due to train company infrastructure failures. So says the...
The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy’s deal for Hinkley Point C has locked consumers into a risky and expensive project...
The RMT union has confirmed a further three days of strike action on Arriva Rail North will go ahead on Saturday 8, Sunday 9 and Monday July 10. July...
In April 2017 the British Council For Offices (BCO) commissioned a major research study entitled 'Wellness Matters: Health and Wellbeing in...
According to the GMB union this morning (June 23), a Watford hospital worker has been suspended for rolling his trousers up on the hottest day of the...
We have busted through the mercury, with temperatures exceeding 30 degrees with wall to wall sunshine for most of us, writes Vicky Lopez. I expect...
JLL has conducted a piece of global research in to attitudes in the workplace. The report reveals how engaged, empowered and fulfilled workers are...
Spie 365 Facilities was the biggest reveal at the Facilities show on the first day. Spie, which is a global engineering group, purchased the Trios...
Engineering firm Max Fordham has been named‘Inclusion and Diversity Champion’ at the Consultancy and Engineering Awards. Hosted by the...
A new international standard is being developed for facilities management, providing a framework for the management, operation and...
The Metropolitan Police Service is leading the investigation into the fire at Grenfell Tower. We have statements from both the police and the London...
Mitie has made its preliminary announcement of results for the year ended 31 March 2017 under the banner 'Moving Beyond FM to the Connected...
SPIE UK has completed a contract to refurbish the 6th floor office space at BT Lancaster House in Liverpool. Working as Principal Contractor, the...
Following the terrorist attacks in Westminster and London Bridge, MI5 and Counter Terrorism Command have reviewed the security of the 33 bridges in...
Three men arrested on suspicion of terrorism offences are absolutely NOT connected to the recent London attacks, ThisWeekinFM has discovered despite...
EDF Energy Services, a brand new joint venture between EDF Energy and Dalkia, has agreed to acquire Imtech UK and Ireland from Endless LLP. Imtech...
The Police Federation has renewed calls for more investment in neighbourhood policing in the wake of the Westminster, London Bridge & Borough...
Statements were issued by faith leaders on Monday June 5 following the attacks in London Bridge and Borough Market. Commander Mak Chishty of the...
British Airways' parent company has allowed its Chief Executive to tell an audience the recent IT catastrophe (which affected 75,000 passengers)...
Friday may 26 saw crews called to fire in hedgerow at Wimbledon Tennis Club Four fire engines and 21 firefighters and officers went to a practice...
June 1 saw staff at the Bank of England start voting in an industrial action ballot. Unite, the union representing staff at the Bank is looking for a...
There have been further arrests in the counter terrorism operation related to the Manchester Bombing. A 23 year old Sheffield man has this morning...
ABM?UK has been awarded a three year contract to provide The Centre, Livingston with a range of facilities management services. The Centre is...
Peter Cox and Enviro-Dogs have formed a partnership to detect dry rot in buildings. Specialist sniffers will be employed to detect significant...
British Airways' excuse for its catastrophic IT failure that has seen flight schedules resume but many passengers stranded and separated from...
Assistant Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, Mark Rowley, National Lead for Counter Terrorism Policing was swift to agree to move the terror...
The London Fire Brigade has had another busy week as temperatures rise and call-outs to a variety of commercial property fires keep...
Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Cressida Dick, has visited officers and military personnel on duty providing protection at the Palace of...
A construction firm has been convicted of the manslaughter of two workers who died after falling from a central London balcony. One of the workers...
A 22-year-old man who attempted to buy a grenade on the dark web has been jailed for 10 years following an investigation by the National Crime Agency...
Having lead a national minute's silence at 11:00am, lunchtime on Thursday 25 saw Manchester's Chief Constable Ian Hopkins has given his latest...
A Birmingham man has been found guilty of a terrorism offence after potentially lethal bomb making equipment was found at his home. Zahid Hussain,...
London City Airport is to become the first UK airport to install a digital air traffic control tower – operational in 2019. The digital solution...
Colin Tankard says the dust from the ransomware which hit major organisations around the world on Friday 12 may seem to have settled but...
Ten fire engines and around 70 firefighters and officers were called to a fire at a university building on The Strand in London on the afternoon of...
A man was sentenced on Thursday 18 at the Old Bailey for manslaughter. The verdict was delayed on Wednesday as his judge was stuck in a lift! The...
Not only has May 17 2017 been designated World FM Day it also marks the 12th annual International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia -...
On Wednesday May 17, MI5 and the Met's Counter Terrorism Command arrested four men at an addresses in east London. The arrests are linked to...
ThisWeekinFM has been making a racket about Cyber Security because vulnerabilities are exploited at a personnel and personal level - where FM's...
Tottenham Hotspur Chairman Daniel Levy today - Monday May 15 - formally handed the keys to White Hart Lane over to Mark Reynolds, CEO of Mace, Main...
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Eight unions have become involved in a dispute with the Academies Enterprise Trust about the elimination r retention of school caretakers. GMB,...
A 41-year-old motorist, who was convicted in 2003 for dangerous driving which resulted in a woman receiving life changing injuries, has been jailed at...
A construction company has been fined £3/4 million for asbestos failings; another for a falling load crush; another for a trench collapse; and...
Six fire engines and 35 firefighters and officers were called to a fire in a disused ventilation shaft at Oxford Circus underground station on Monday...
A woman who deliberately knocked down a cyclist following a London street row was found guilty of causing serious injury by dangerous driving in the...
Three women have been formally charged with the preparation of a terrorist act and conspiracy to murder. They had been arrested as part of an...
A man, Khalid Mohammed Omar Ali, arrested in Whitehall on 27 April for carrying knives appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Wednesday 10...
The organisation leading Mental Health Week, the Mental Health Foundation, has conducted a survey to understand the prevalence of self-reported mental...
Wellcome (previously known as the Wellcome Trust) is a charity dedicated to research into health and wellness. It's commercial properties also...
Pickfords Business Solutions recently worked with Covent Garden Flower Market to transport tens of thousands of plants, flowers and sundries to a new...
The week ending May 5 saw substantial activity from Officers from the Met's Counter Terrorism Command (SO15). Below, under Previous Reporting, we...
The next phase of refurbishment work on Westminster Hall has started with the extensive and careful construction of scaffolding inside and outside the...
A Google spokesperson has told ThisWeekinFM: “We realise people are concerned about their Google accounts and we're now able to give a...
The paper £5 note, featuring Elizabeth Fry, will officially be withdrawn on Friday May 5 2017 and so The Bank of England is encouraging anyone...
The Lighthouse Construction Industry Charity and the Considerate Constructors Scheme have launched a new initiative to help support the mental health...
As pressure on private rental accommodation in the UK’s major cities forces up costs, young people are finding it impossible to combine their...
Construction contractor CMF Ltd has been fined after a 31-year-old sub-contractor, Richard Laco, died when working on a large and prestigious...
On May 2, Apleona HSG Limited was confirmed as the new name for Bilfinger Europa Facility Management. In late 2016, Bilfinger sold its Building...
SPIE has appointed Rob Goodhew as its new CEO of the UK operation after current CEO, James Thoden van Velzen, was installed as Apleona HSG'...
Officers from the Metropolitan Police Counter Terrorism Command arrested three young women on terrorism charges on Bank Holiday Monday. Two of the...
As reported by much of the mainstream media on the morning of Tuesday May 2 (and first by ThisWeekinFM on March 22) a Cardiff man has pleaded guilty...
What is being described as an active terror plot has been foiled after police intervention saw one woman shot at a London address and six people...
On Thursday 27, just before 2:30pm, police tackled and hauled a man to the ground near to Westminster and the Houses of Parliament. He was arrested...
The rail union RMT confirmed last night (Thurs 27) that a 24 hour strike on Arriva Rail North would go ahead on Friday. There has been no progress in...
Apex Lifts has had its Royal Warrant, from the Household of HM The Queen renewed. Originally awarded in 1995, Apex Lifts is now in its fifth...
Texas this week ending April 28 saw Embraer and Aurora reach an agreement to help push and partner on the Uber Elevate Network that will allow the...
A woman who killed one person and seriously injured another having collided with two stationary vehicles while sending a Facebook message has been...
Propertyserve, has made it into the inaugural FT1000 list - a new league table compiled by the Financial Times and Statista, highlighting Europe's...
A 'significant device' has been seized following a security alert outside Holy Cross Girls Primary School in the Ardoyne area of north Belfast...
Incentive FM Consultancy, part of the Incentive FM Group, has started the next phase of its work with Liverpool Football Club. This involves a full...
The last Concorde ever to have been built - and thus the last ever Concorde to take to the skies - is to go on show at Aerospace Bristol, a new...
Just as the British Medical Journal says walking and cycling as part of a commute can help prevent cancer, London now has appointed its first Walking...
A Chartered Institute of Professional Development (CIPD) report has found that 53% of managers are not trained or qualified to handle ‘difficult...
One in five businesses have fallen victim to cyber attacks in the past year, according to the results of a survey released this week ending April 21...
CBRE has purchased Mainstream Software Incorporated after using the firm's products within its Global Workplace Solutions...
Birmingham City Council has appointed the construction company, Bouygues, as the main contractor to transform Centenary Square in the heart of the...
London is just one of the towns and cities in England that are set to make its St George’s Day celebrations as big as possible this year - and...
For the period January to December 2016, the UK region with the highest average actual weekly hours worked (for all workers) was London at 33.7 hours,...
A Carillion Joint Venture, has been awarded the HESTIA South East and London Region Multi Activity Contract. This is just one of the seven HESTIA...
Motorists can expect leisure traffic volumes to reach a peak on Easter Sunday when there will be nearly 3.75 million cars (or at an average three to a...
BT has launched its first 'Customer Experience Lab' (in Dundee) to test new ways of supporting its 1.1 million business customers across the...
Monday 3 saw firefighters again called to the St Mary Axe building - only weeks ago they attended another incident at what is known as The...
MPs from four select committees have combined forces to launch an unprecedented joint inquiry on air quality to scrutinise cross-government plans to...
The national campaign ‘Spotlight on…illegal workers’ has been launched by the Considerate Constructors Scheme. The Scheme -...
CBRE has been reappointed to provide mechanical and electrical maintenance services to the National Gallery in London. Despite painting a good...
Workers across the UK saw their take home pay increase when the Personal Allowance and Higher Rate Threshold are increased from April 6. This...
Third parties who manage large organisations’ IT services have been attacked by suspected cyber terrorists the government's National...
The 163rd men's and the 72nd women's University Boat Race went ahead as planned despite an unexploded World War Two shell being discovered...
An all-party committee has found that the Government's Apprenticeship Levy, to be introduced in the first week of April and targeting three...
Activists from End Deportations, Lesbians and Gays Support the Migrants (LGSMigrants) and Plane Stupid prevented the departure of a deportation...
West Midlands Police has secured court orders against two men suspected of using slave labour at recycling plants in the Black Country. The Slavery...
Following the tragic incident on Westminster Bridge and at the Palace of Westminster on March 22, the National Counter Terrorism Security Office...
A new hard hitting campaign to encourage people to report unwanted sexual behaviour on public transport has been launched by Transport for London...
Lloyd’s, the specialist insurance and reinsurance market, has announced it will be setting up a new European insurance company to be located in...
Two very different sculptures got special treatment in the week ending March 30 - New York's famous Fearless Girl was sponsored to stay...
A Government body set up to save public money by buying common goods and services centrally has delivered disappointing results, says the Public...
Six fire engines and 35 firefighters and officers from Soho, Chelsea, Euston and Lambeth rushed to reports of smoke issuing from the basement of a...
Merseyside Police have taken over from the other emergency services to investigate the explosion that occurred on the Wirral on Saturday March...
Tuesday March 28 saw the introduction of the new One Pound Coin which the Treasury is hailing as a groundbreaking security initiative whilst those in...
Detectives investigating the terrorist attack in Westminster on Wednesday, March 22 have confirmed that a 75-year-old man died on Thursday...
Thames Water Utilities Ltd (Thames Water) has (on March 22) been fined an unprecedented £20,361,140.06 in fines and costs for a series of...
Child abuse images discovered on a work laptop have led to an eight year jail term for a bank employee from Manchester. Andrew Dent, 35, was...
A sprinkler system helped prevent further widespread damage at an industrial recycling warehouse fire on Scrubs Lane in Kensal Green on Friday March...
Detectives from the Kensington and Chelsea division have arrested an alleged hoax caller on Wednesday March 22. The a 36 year old man was picked-up at...
From May 25 next year, the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will come into force across the whole of Europe. This includes the UK despite...
The Metropolitan Police Service, along with emergency service partners, has carried out the first joint major live-play exercise to test their...
A European Court of Justice ruling (week ending March 17), has upheld an employer's and their contractor's (G4S Secure Solutions) right to ban...
Police, the London Ambulance Service, the Fire Brigade and eventually the London Air Ambulance were called to an explosion at a building site on...
The British Institute of Facilities Management has published a new guide to managing cross-border facilities management delivery, exploring the...
The Rail, Maritime and Transport union has called out guards again on Southern rail routes and also on Northern and Merseyrail services - and is...
March 13 marked the start of Nutrition and Hydration Week - March 13-19. This yearly awareness campaign aims to highlight and promote improvements in...
The Emirates Air Line - the cable car link that crosses the River Thames and helps link the Excel exhibition centre with the O2 (Millennium Dome) and...
Shortly after 2:00pm on Wednesday 7, Greater Manchester Police officers were called to reports of a serious collision between a Ford Focus and a...
Philip Hammond's last Spring Budget has some interesting items for the property and FM markets. A nod at helping those hit hardest by increases...
Islamist Terrorism an Analysis of Offences and Attacks in the UK (1998-2015) is a new research project from The Henry Jackson Society - the...
As part of the new Action Counter Terrorism campaign (Click Here), Counter Terrorism Policing has produced its first ever...
A new national police campaign is again asking the public to act on their instincts to help tackle terrorism. It comes as the country's threat...
March 6-10 was the tenth annual National Apprenticeship Week. The week aims to highlight the success of apprenticeships over the last decade and look...
Imtech UK and Ireland has released its first set of figures since the Group emerged from the buyout from its failed Dutch parent company. The...
The government is to commence an advertising campaign (launched week ending March 3) to raise lowest paid workers’ knowledge of their rights...
The British Airways i360 attraction in Brighton reopened on was Wednesday March 1 after work was carried out to replace a damaged data...
The operation to remove an unexploded World War Two bomb from a building site in London's Brondesbury Park, went on until 8:30pm on Friday night...
ABM’s UK business and industry group has announced (Feb 28) the acquisition of one of the UK's leading providers of specialist technical...
Storm Ewan was named by Met Éireann, the Irish Met service, as the fifth named storm of the season on Saturday Feb 25 night. Storm Ewan brought...
The morning of February 27 stated with a bang for the London Fire Brigade as firefighters assisted police officers at a suspected unexploded World War...
The networking event that is FMCentral will take to the slopes at The Snow Centre, Hemel Hempstead, for the March 22 event. Speakers will raise...
Thames Valley Police alongside partner agencies are investigating the collapse of a ceiling at a school in Milton Keynes. Police officers were...
Police 'raided' the most unusual vacant property in the week ending Feb 24 (Feb 22) that had been occupied by cannabis growers. A nuclear...
West Ham United have hammered out a new contract with LCC Support Services for cleaning it new London Stadium home. West Ham left their home at...
Storm Doris tracked across Northern Ireland and northern England on Thursday 23, bringing strong winds, heavy rain and some snow at higher levels for...
More than 350 employers have been named and shamed as the government published the largest ever list minimum living wage offenders on Wednesday 16....
Four million more people are living below an adequate standard of living and are just about managing at best, according to an authoritative report on...
Earlier this month, Bristol University was forced to put its contingency and evacuation plans in to action as fire fighters and bomb disposal experts...
Wispa it quietly, but being a chocolate taster job is on offer below but we kick-off with some warnings about what not to do if the passion of...
The Report of the Independent Inquiry into the Construction of Edinburgh Schools has been published. It was commissioned by Chief Executive Andrew...
An employment hopeful attended an interview for a support staff role within Greater Manchester Police (GMP) well over the legal drink drive limit,...
Firefighters took some time to control a fire that brought Albert Square in Manchester to a standstill on Valentine's Day afternoon. Crews were...
The Office of Rail and Road (ORR) is calling on train operators to refund passengers after its new research showed that overall 1 in 5 mystery...
A massive fire in Leicester has shown yet again how vulnerable vacant and derelict buildings can be and the damage and disruption that can be...
The extension of the Bakerloo line moved closer week ending Feb 10 with the opening of a new Transport for London consultation that sets out detailed...
The Health and Safety Executive has announced that it is to consult on proposals to make its cost recovery scheme dispute process fully...
The Environment Agency has accepted an enforcement undertaking from a major cider brewer following pollution to a Herefordshire brook. Heineken UK...
New data released on February 7 reveals that recent storms and flooding caused more than £3.5 million worth of damage across 57 cricket clubs -...
Friday 3 saw three men sentenced to over 30 years imprisonment at Kingston Crown Court for using ‘explosive gas’ to rob 27 cash machines...
Tube strike action scheduled from Sunday to Wednesday was suspended by the RMT on Saturday - with the Rail Maritime and Transport union claiming they...
Four in five passengers (81 per cent) are satisfied with their train journeys overall, according to the latest independent nationwide survey...
Tube Strikes - When and Where Travel advice has been issued ahead of a planned RMT Tube strike from 8:00pm on Sunday until around 9:00am on...
A not so controlled explosion took place outside Workington Police Station on the morning of Thursday 2 (8:00am), destroying a 'suspicious'...
Police officers from the Westminster division are renewing appeals to trace a man filmed stealing a mobile phone from a coffee shop yards away from...
Changes to the way ticket prices are calculated are set to be trialled by train companies with a view to guaranteeing customers get the best possible...
Seven people have been charged as part of Operation Vocare, the Metropolitan Police's operation to combat moped-enabled crime. The arrests and...
The Unite Students Group, a provider of 50,000 student accommodation units, in more than 140 properties, has joined forces with Heathrow, Carillion,...
Specialist FM recruiter, Eden Brown Built Environment, has given Keith Glennister an ambassadorial role. Glennister, who in his spare time offers...
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ Science and Security Board has reset the hands of the inconic Doomsday Clock it created 70 years ago. We...
The winners of the third annual The Way We Work Awards showcase the best examples of the Civil Service making government work better. The Cabinet...
36 police forces took part in the campaign in November stopping 10,012 vehicles and detecting nearly 8,000 mobile phone offences, the highest ever...
Responding to the issuing of the first ‘Very High’ air pollution alert since he became Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan said: “The...
The Petitions Committee and Women and Equalities Committee have published their report 'High heels and workplace dress codes', revealing the...
Outlook for Thursday to Saturday Colder and windier for all on Thursday and Friday, with sunny spells by day and frosty nights. Winds easing into...
New funding has been announced to improve air quality across London as winter temperatures highlight the level of smog in the Capital. Six schemes,...
London's Victoria Embankment was closed on the evening of January 19 as the Royal Navy was called in to assist the Metropolitan Police deal with...
The City of London Corporation has launched a new version of its City Air App, giving users access to real-time air pollution data to automatically...
In a speech given on January 2017, Prime Minister Theresa May was heard to deliver rather a lot of words but very little content as she set-out her...
Southern Railways has agreed to ASLEF suspending industrial action on Southern Railways on the proviso new talks are hosted by Frances O’Grady,...
New analysis has been published by the think tank Centre for Cities, sets out three policy priorities to help the new Greater Manchester metro mayor...
A corrupt NHS official who accepted bribes of £80,000 in exchange for awarding lucrative IT contracts has been jailed for three years at...
Following remarks by Home Office minister Robert Goodwill on proposals for an immigration skills levy on EU workers, Adam Marshall, Director General...
Residents, employees and visitors to the City of London will be able to use a new 'world-class' wireless network this year as proposals to...
The Environment Agency has tested new flood technology as part of a winter readiness training exercise involving 1,000 staff. Teams across England...
A County Down man is the first person in Northern Ireland to be sentenced for possessing guides on grooming and abusing children under UK legislation...
Members of the public and motorists are advised to expect delays to their journey around the Square Mile from 5:00pm on Thursday 12 January due to a...
Household goods giant Wilko has been fined £2.2 million after a horrific accident at a Leicester store left a young female worker...
The Met Office has said it will turn cold and windy as a Polar maritime airmass, with its origins over northern Canada, moves into northern Scotland...
Transport for London (TfL) is advising customers that there will be a severely reduced service across the network all day on Monday because of strike...
4 January 2017 saw a Lincoln based Construction Company, specialising in fitting mezzanine floors, prosecuted after a contractor fell onto a concrete...
A man who posed as an office cleaner in order to steal IT equipment worth approximately £17,000 has been jailed for a total of four years. In...
CCTV issued this week by the City of London Police serves as a stark reminder to all phone users that phone thieves riding mopeds and motorbikes...
The giant trends, social movements and technological breakthroughs which are set shape our lives in 2017 have been predicted by the research and...
Drivers on Southern Railways will take strike action on Tuesday January 10; Wednesday 11; and Friday 13. And on Tuesday January 24; Wednesday 25 and...
A new system, designed to improve public resilience in the event of a major terrorist attack, has been launched. Using lessons learnt on the...
Costa is launching a nationwide recycling scheme across over 2,000 stores in order to recover and guarantee the recycling of its takeaway cups....
In a globally connected world, a great many companies have staff that travel both locally and overseas, making it more important to have an effective...
All 110,000 tickets for the London New Year’s Eve fireworks display have been sold. Meanwhile the authorities are advising revellers...
One in every eight workers in the UK - 3.8 million people - is now living in poverty. A total of 7.4 million people, including 2.6 million children,...
Centrepoint (the charity for the homeless named after the building that once opened its doors to rough sleepers along with many offices that donated...
The Empire State Realty Trust and iHeartMedia have tested their new holiday music to light show featuring Mariah Carey but have turned it off again...
A specialist roofing company and its two directors have been sentenced after admitting working unsafely at height on a hotel development in central...
Lord Adonis has said the government must take action now to secure a connected future so we are ready for 5G, and essential services are genuinely...
Monday morning of December 12 saw six people arrested on suspicion of offences under the Terrorism Act. Four men from Derby aged 22, 27, 35 and 36,...
The surplus produced from council parking operations in England has reached a record high of just over three quarters of a billion pounds. In the...
MI6's Alex Younger, Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service (or M is you are a fan of Bond movies) has been in post for just over two...
As the weather takes a turn for the warmer and wetter, Highways England is launching a new safety campaign warning drivers that ‘when it rains,...
Local fire crews were called to a massive fire at a car salvage yard/scrap yard on the Moorfield Industrial Estate near Accrington in Lancashire just...
The (NPCC) National Police Chiefs' Council's annual month-long operation against driving under the influence launched on December 1. Police...
As the so-called Islamic State (IS) loses ground in the Middle East, the pattern of its recent terrorist attacks in Europe suggests that it has...
SPIE, the M&E engineering, HVAC services, energy and communications company has splashed out and bought EE...no not the Everything Everywhere...
Jersey will still be suffering some disruption to services after three out of its four international submarine cables were cut. It is thought that the...
Police are appealing for witnesses to a fire in the city centre which left two men dead. Shortly after 2:15am on Friday November 25, police were...
Teams of specialist police officers will be deployed to disrupt potential terrorist activity and crime in the London boroughs of Wandsworth and...
The number of employees with daily commutes of two hours or more has shot up by nearly a third (31%) over the past five years, according to new...
The week ending Nov 25 saw Prime Minister Theresa May joined key people from across the life sciences sector to open the Wellcome Trust Sanger...
Hammond pointed to the IMF prediction that the UK will be the fastest growing major advanced economy in the world this year. An economy with...
Mitie have announced half-yearly results for the six months ended 30 September 2016 which show big losses and profits warnings. This has slammed the...
KAO Data Campus, the new science and technology data centre campus located on the Harlow Enterprise Zone, has announced that it has appointed JCA...
Three men are/were due to appear at the Old Bailey, charged with various offences linked to an investigation that was launched in October 2015 by the...
An ex-council employee has been jailed for seven and a half years after being found guilty of charging Lancashire County Council £1 million in...
On Tuesday November 15, Transport Secretary Chris Grayling confirmed the majority of the preferred HS2 route from Crewe to Manchester and the West...
International support services and construction group, Interserve, has been served notice of termination on its Glasgow Recycling & Renewable...
The Rail Maritime and Transport union has confirmed that balloting has concluded in two separate disputes on London Underground with majority votes...
The Government has (in the week ending Friday 11) reaffirmed its commitment to spend £730 million on renewable electricity projects over this...
The Association for Decentralised Energy has this week (Ending Friday 11) welcomed a new Government report which calls for businesses and other smart...
A man has been sentenced for a false insurance claim after CCTV proved he wasn’t in his car when it was hit in a carpark. James Young has...
A new poster campaign started at major railway stations on November 1 to be rolled out across the rest of network. Now it's been pulled on the...
The Million Mask March has previously seen considerable damage to properties in an around London's Trafalgar Square. This time around, on Saturday...
Ahead of the proposed ‘Million Mask March’ on Saturday, 5 November, conditions have been imposed on the event under the Public Order Act....
A new campaign started at major railway stations week ending November 4 and will be rolled out across the rest of network in England, Scotland and...
A High Court ruling came this week ending November 4 that the government has broken the law by failing to tackle illegal levels of nitrogen dioxide...
New Real Living Wage rates were announced on October 31 - the start of Real Living Wage Week. Thursday was set aside for Recognised Service Providers...
Structural engineers are continuing to work at the scene of the Exeter fire and particularly the Royal Clarence Hotel that was effectively destroyed...
A group of Mo Bros and Sistas gathered outside the Houses of Parliament to raise awareness of the crisis in men's health, at the dawn of Movember...
The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has used a keynote speech to City business leaders to deliver his strongest warning yet about the potential impact of...
Halloween morning saw the new London Living Wage increased from £9.40 to £9.75 per hour to reflect the higher cost of living facing...
What's happening over at Condeco Software? asked ThisWeekinFM in a recent Grapevine as we were surprised to hear Debra Ward EMEA Managing Director...
Devon & Somerset Fire & Rescue have been battling a blaze this morning (Friday 28) since just after 5 o'clock at a block of buildings...
Plans for more charging stations to encourage low emission vehicles and ultra low emission vehicles have had some substance added to them by the...
The British Institute of Facilities Management is showing marvellous continuity by losing yet another CEO in record time. Julie Kortens has sent a...
Arthur McKay has been bought by Servest. The £125 million turnover building services contractor has spent the last year or so preparing for an...
A man who was browsing the web on his phone looking at cars moments before he killed a pensioner has been jailed for 13-and-a-half months. Edward...
After 16 years of dilly-dallying by three different Governments, this one finally gave the go-ahead to a further round of dilly-dallying that is...
A company providing environmental services has been prosecuted after a worker was killed during asbestos removal work at a Welsh High...
Police have released a picture of a man who they wish to trace in connection with an alleged theft of a Venetian blind from a Dunelm Mill store in...
A group of employees are considering legal action against Tesco over a decision to cut their wages for working at weekends, bank holidays and nights....
With the decision on which airport will be expanded soon to be made, Prime Minister Theresa May has made it clear that she wants to hear a wide-range...
The Government should redesign its Capacity Market - a subsidy scheme designed to minimise the risk of electricity blackouts - to incentivise...
Some cleaners at Heathrow have written to the Airport hierarchy to complain they are effectively not receiving the London Living Wage which was...
The National Living Wage (NLW) is likely to rise to around £7.50 an hour next year, 10p lower than expected in March because of the weaker...
Rail passengers will soon be able to claim compensation if their train is more than 15 minutes late under an improved compensation scheme announced by...
The BIFM Awards 2016 (the sixteenth in the annual event) were given out at the Grosvenor House Hotel, London on 10 October 2016. 'Pointless...
Norwich’s The Enterprise Centre was named as the Best of the Best workplace at the British Council for Offices’ (BCO) annual National...
Samsung has stated that only about 60 per cent of owners have returned their Note 7 device for a replacement despite them being a serious fire risk -...
Tesco has been fined after health and safety breaches led to a worker falling through a skylight. The employee of Tesco Maintenance Ltd was lucky to...
Giant images of BT’s much loved classic red K6 telephone box were projected onto several of the company’s central London buildings,...
Prime Minister Theresa May closed the Conservative Conference on Wednesday 5 by staking a claim for the Party to claim centre political...
Hundreds of customers, business partners, suppliers and employees were gathered together by Bilfinger at the Expo Real in Munich to hear what the part...
It's going to be a sorry Autumn/start to Winter for the travelling public as the RMT's Mick Cash rants and raves and calls train strikes and...
If you were to take the word of a survey of just 150 real estate bods acting for companies that employ more than 250 people, you'd be forgiven for...
The world’s top 100 cities – London among them - will generate 35% of global economic growth over the next ten years, yet the benefits of...
ThisWeekinFM has obtained a statement from the Chairman of Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Authority which confirms massive cuts to fire services...
HR Diversity Consultancy, The Clear Company, has responded to research commissioned by Acas from academics at King's College, London, which...
Drivers near Beaconsfield were being advised to allow extra time for their journeys on the morning of Thursday 22, as Lane 1 on the London-bound M40...
The week, ending Friday September 23, Mitie Group plc issued a trading update statement and in so doing has caused its own shares and that of some...
At the end of last week (and big news across the weekend), the government has declared plans to make using a handheld device whilst driving a fixed...
E-cigarettes may have helped about 18,000 people in England to give up smoking in 2015, according to new research published in the British Medical...
Protecting information while re-designing public services and introducing the technology necessary to support them is an increasingly complex...
The Government has confirmed the Hinkley Point C nuclear power station project following a new agreement in principle with EDF whilst claiming it has...
Seventeen home care workers employed across the London Borough of Haringey, backed by the UNISON union, are taking care company Sevacare and the...
The Communication Workers Union (CWU) has not been persuaded to call-off its one-day Post Office workers strike for tomorrow Thursday 15, meaning...
Warnings have been issued by Public Health England (PHE) following forecasts of hot weather for the coming days and nights. PHE issued the warnings...
A Guard of Honour was formed on the morning of September 8 following the discovery of another body (the previous day) of one of the workers who died...
In a report published the week ending September 9, the Joint Committee on the Palace of Westminster has concluded that the Palace of Westminster...
Four men were charged with preparing for terrorist acts by West Midlands Counter Terrorism officers on Thursday 8 to appear at Westminster Magistrates...
You couldn't have written it - well ThisWeekinFM could - the brand new British Airways' observation tower (which opened to the public on...
G4S Cash Solutions (UK) Limited has been fined £1.8 million after Harlow Council successfully prosecuted the company for failing to protect its...
Johnson Controls and Tyco have finally completed their merger to create what many would argue is the world's largest building controls...
Tiny magnetic particles from air pollution have for the first time been discovered to be lodged in human brains – and researchers think they...
At 11:00am on Tuesday Sept 6, a notice on the London City Airport website still read: 'The runway is currently closed due to protestors on site....
A study has found that the impact of road transport on air quality is not given sufficient priority in UK transport planning. Alongside a lack of...
The first scientists have moved in to London’s new world-leading research laboratory bringing with them the threat of disruption from animal...
Three people were still missing, presumed dead, at the site of the Didcot A Power Station explosion and collapse of February 23. On Wednesday Aug 31...
Businesses and residents have been warned by fire brigades to keep clear of grassland fires after a number broke out across the country in close to...
Cardiff based construction company, Jehu Project Services Ltd, sentenced on August 16 after a worker was seriously injured falling down a lift...
In a move that is claimed will save Transport for London £80 million in management fees but cost Amey a fortune, the TfL board has announced...
OK - it's not exactly FM - in fact it really has nothing to do with FM at all. But who else would tell you that BT is giving people across the UK...
The Post Office claims only half of the Communication Workers Union members have voted in ballot for industrial action, with 41 per cent of that...
A weather front has been moving southeastward across the UK for much of the week ahead acting as dividing line between very warm continental air to...
The coming bank holiday weekend looks set to be a bumper one with double the number of cars on the road compared to the late August bank holiday...
The massive blaze that destroyed the Selsey Academy at the weekend (morning of Sun 21) has now (Tues 23) been linked to roofing work that was taking...
The Night Tube gets/got started on August 19 as TfL (Transport for London) introduced its new Friday and Saturday service on the Central and Victoria...
September's Labour Party conference, where delegates are expected to be full of hissing and booing because of recent leadership voting...
According to massive international payroll and accounting software firm Sage, which now offers nearly all of its services internationally via the...
A man who falsely claimed he was injured in a car accident as part of a bogus compensation claim has been given an adult caution after CCTV footage...
Greater Manchester Police (GMP) arrested 275 motorists during this year’s summer drink and drug drive operation. More than 800 motorists were...
Two security companies have been fined after a security guard died from carbon monoxide poisoning. Javaid Iqbal, a 29 year old father of three, was...
More than half (52%) of women, and nearly two-thirds (63%) of women aged 18-24 years old, said they have experienced sexual harassment at work,...
Advertised broadband speeds which are only available to 10 per cent of customers are 'misleading and don't reflect the experience of many...
A Metropolitan police officer remains in a serious but stable condition following his involvement in arresting smash & grab moped raiders who had...
Tuesday 9 saw Delta CEO Ed Bastian taking to the airwaves to update customers on the outage that led to hundreds of cancelled flights around the...
Police were called to Boord Street in London's Greenwich, by the London Fire Brigade at midday on Monday 8. London Ambulance Service was also...
One of the country’s leading experts on gull control is warning that the current spate of gull attacks across the UK will only increase if...
The Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe and the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan have announced the start of Operation Hercules in...
The Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM), Arsenal in the Community and QPR Community Trust have teamed up with local dad Giancarlo Gaglione to...
Sunday 31 saw firefighters cheered by crowd as they rescued 19 passengers from ten hanging capsules that had become stuck high off the ground on...
The World’s tallest moving observation tower opened to the public on August 4 - on Brighton seafront. It will be called the British Airways...
The results for the Crime Survey of England and Wales (CSEW) by the Office of National Statistics reveal for the first time that fraud is the most...
A new study of over 1 million people has found that doing at least one hour of physical activity per day, such as brisk walking or cycling for...
It was a busy week for the London Fire Brigade as three major blazes hit parts of the capital - two at recycling plants and one at a paper processing...
According to the online version of City AM, London Wall was still closed to east-bound traffic on Wednesday 27 as gas engineers continued to work on a...
In the past few weeks, the Home Office has paid a black woman £2,000 in settlement of a claim she made where she alleged racial discrimination...
Monday and Tuesday 25 & 26 saw a two-day cleaners' strike by Public and Commercial Services Union members working for ISS at HMRC buildings in...
Following their return from a visit to Sheffield’s sister city of Chengdu in China, the Leader and Deputy Leader of Sheffield City Council...
The Department of Energy and Climate Change was the biggest departmental casualty last week as the new Prime minister Theresa May proved...
The City of London Police and the National Crime Agency are calling for help to catch ten wanted fraudsters who are linked to over £20 million...
More details were revealed about a shooting at a public sports & leisure facility in Lincolnshire following a police press conference at 4:00pm on...
A report by the Parliamentary Health Committee has declared that while the NHS is under ‘unprecedented strain’ the social care sector has...
The concept of robots replacing security guards took a knock when one ran into a child at a shopping centre in California. Technology that some...
A fire in a Fitzrovia underground car park was extinguished by sprinklers while commercial burglars shoved a couple of chip fryers under their arms...
Six children from across the UK were selected as winners of a Virgin Trains competition to inspire future developments of the new Azuma...
Fifteen fire engines and around 100 firefighters and officers were called to a large fire at Parkfield industrial estate on Culvert Place in...
BIFM, RICS and Global FM have all done their bit on World FM Day to highlight how FM professionals, empower people to reach their full potential and...
Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service and partner agencies were dealing with a major fire incident at a tyre recycling plant in Aberafan, Port...
At lunchtime on Tuesday a man was finally talked down from a crane on the site of the new Tottenham Hotspur football stadium. After 18 hours, he was...
A huge fire broke out at a Morrisons supermarket bakery at the weekend - fortunately nobody was injured and the operator was sure that no customers...
Provisional annual data for work-related fatal accidents in Great Britain’s workplaces have been released. The long term trend has seen the...
Next week, Wednesday 13 July is ‘World FM Day’ – the worldwide celebration of facilities management and the way in which it enables...
The Transport Committee has published a report, warning that the Government should not proceed with 'all lane running' schemes while major...
A new report has warned that the UK’s public finances are increasingly dependent on taxes generated in London – highlighting the need,...
Both Aviva and Standard life have suspended trading in their UK commercial property funds - Standard Life announced the move on Monday with...
Commenting on figures released on Thursday June 30 covering road casualties in Great Britain in 2015, RAC chief engineer David Bizley said:...
The government is set to adopt climate change targets for the ‘fifth carbon budget’ that will see the UK required to reduce greenhouse...
ISS has signed a commercial agreement with IBM to use the power of Watson IoT to transform the management of over 25,000 buildings around the...
Vodafone has effectively confirmed it is considering moving it's HQ building out of the UK, whilst some other notable names are planning their...
Looking back one week wistfully to what was the Facilities Show and the Protections Series of events, we take an opportunity to relieve the experience...
In-Out - we've all been shaken about by one of the most embarrassing, disingenuous political campaigns ever to disgrace a nation (possibly even...
Worrying new figures published recently have revealed that Londoners living in the capital’s most deprived boroughs are up to twice as likely to...
A dental professional has warned that workplace 'cake culture' is fuelling the current obesity epidemic and contributing to poor dental...
Police Scotland is to increase the number of officers within armed policing - it says to help maintain the safety and security of...
EIC, the huge FM, energy and building services contractor with head offices in Warwickshire and an office network that stretches from Scotland to the...
With heavy and thundery showers forecast again for the coming month, the Local Government Association (LGA), which represents more than 370 councils...
A man who defrauded the Department for Education out of over £1 million has been jailed. Edward Fowkes Chapman was sentenced on Wednesday 15...
With online crime becoming an increasing threat for businesses, new figures from Action Fraud and Get Safe Online released this week show that from...
The latest inducement for you to visit the Facilities Show has been sent by the organisers...learn how you can succeed despite the challenges you may...
Active shooters require relatively easy access to their intended targets and unimpeded ability to move around the venue space, writes Chris Annear....
One Way, a specialist recruiter for the built environment, rail, civil engineering and heavy plant backs an analysis which has found that a lack of...
The Building Engineering Services Association (the BESA), the Electrical Contractors' Association (ECA) and the CIBSE Patrons are joining forces...
Sports Direct owner Mike Ashley, who clearly has a touch of the 'if you don't ask questions, then brother I'm your man' about him,...
A Metropolitan Police Service campaign to raise awareness about criminals who use mopeds, scooters, motorcycles and bicycles to snatch phones from...
JLL is to acquire UK based property maintenance firm Integral with the acquisition said not only to complement JLL's integrated facilities...
Ten fire engines and 72 firefighters and officers attended a fire at an Earls Court hotel on Trebovir Road on June 5. Around 150 people were evacuated...
The latest issue of the UK Energy Efficiency Trends report shows suppliers and consumers particularly concerned that energy prices would rise if the...
Responding to reports that the Government is considering a policy of minimum passing distances between motorists and cyclists, RAC chief engineer...
ACAS’s Chairman and former head of the TUC, Brendan Barber, has urged employers to spare the whistle before and during Euro 2016. It has...
British Telecommunications PLC has been fined after two of its employees were seriously injured in falls from height. Teesside Crown Court heard...
A Jersey tribunal has found in favour of Ms Erin Bisson who wanted Condor Ferries to remove the words 'Men' or 'Ladies' from its...
New research by a money saving website in the UK has discovered that over one-third of workers in Briton have to eat breakfast, lunch and dinner at...
The Court of Appeal (rather than the Privy Council) is now expected to sit in an argument about the provision of toilets in predominantly take-away...
The new Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has confirmed that the much delayed Night Tube services will launch on August 19. Central and Victoria lines to...
Customers can now use Android Pay on their mobile phone to travel on Transport for London (TfL) services, including the Tube, buses and trams, as well...
Greenpeace activists have scaled the British Museum in protest at oil giant BP’s sponsorship of a new blockbuster exhibition - ‘Sunken...
A man has been charged following a security breach at Buckingham Palace. Dennis Hennessy, 41 of Harrow in London, was charged on Thursday, 19 May,...
Two men suspected of funding terrorism were arrested early on Tuesday (May 17) and have now been bailed. The men - both aged 24 - were arrested at...
UK consumers are better off in the EU as roaming charges (in the evening and the daytime) are down to near zero Since the beginning of May, British...
The European Commission has blocked the proposed acquisition of O2 by 3 (aka Hutchison Whampoa) under the EU Merger regulation and shocked the...
On Sunday (May 15), Manchester United were due to play their last game of the season against Premier League minnows Bournemouth but the game was...
In placing the need for prison reform the Cameron government has emphasised that it will deliver this by providing prison governors with more freedom...
The news that one UK university has banned the throwing of mortarboards in the air on graduation day has not impressed the HSE. It is an issue that...
A 300m exclusion zone remained in place in Bath on the morning of Friday 13th following the discovery of a wartime bomb. The Explosive Ordnance...
Defence Secretary Michael Fallon with the Defence Ministers of the US, Australia, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, New...
For the first time, foreign companies that already hold or want to buy property in the UK will be forced to reveal who really owns them, Prime...
The plight of a temp worker who was told she had to wear high heels for a reception area in London has caused a furore and led to a debate over what...
What has been an epic struggle between unions and construction companies involved with a blacklist of workers has been resolved with more than...
A BBC report has revealed that a quarter of UK care homes are at risk of closure. The disclosure in the You and Yours BBC radio programme this week...
A company has been fined £2.6 million after an James Sim was killed when the trench he was working in collapsed on him in...
Police had to responded to a robbery early on Wednesday morning at Brent Cross shopping in London and arrested five men involved in a smash and grab...
Two companies have been fined after asbestos was disturbed during refurbishment work - one under the Health and Safety at Work Act; the other under...
Two damning reports have been published recently on Leeds and Lewes Prisons by HMIP with both suffering from rising levels of violence and...
Acting as a stark warning to seek diagnosis and treatment at the earliest opportunity, ECIS, the employee benefits company for the construction sector...
Firefighters were called to investigate a smell of chemicals in an office building yesterday evening (Thurs 28) and 60 people were evacuated. The...
All work at the Queensferry Crossing has been suspended on both the £1.4bn construction project and the educational centre that runs alongside...
As 175 world leaders signed the Paris Agreement at the United Nations Headquarters on April 22 and over the weekend, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon...
They may seem disparate groups but cab drivers and cyclists have joined Greenpeace to demand ‘real action’ on air pollution. The...
Workplace change management consultants at Advanced Workplace Associates (AWA) are urging business leaders to consider more laterally the factors that...
Greenpeace UK took direct action at the beginning of the week by climbing up some famous statues including Nelson’s Column to get over its point...
Four men were jailed on Friday April 22 for their parts in a conspiracy to commit a terrorist murder following an investigation by the Met's...
Firefighters Firefighters and the Police are at the scene of what is believed to be an unexploded World War Two bomb found near to Lee High Road in...
The HSE made a brief statement on Friday April 22 as Alton Towers owners’ have plead guilty to safety failings. Neil Craig, head of operations...
Today (Fri 22) is the 46th anniversary of Earth Day a movement that continues to inspire, challenge ideas, ignite passion, and motivate people to...
The sight of Japanese senior managers at Mitsubishi bowing at a press conference to apologise for what appears to be deliberate falsifying of test...
The Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) has joined the EU referendum debate with its latest report stating that the UK is better within than in the...
Five people from Birmingham have been arrested on suspicion of being concerned in the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of...
Edinburgh is rocking from the emergency measures that are being taken to ensure 17 PPI funded schools are going to be safe for its students and...
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has expressed ‘serious concerns’ regarding the proposed merger between Hutchison 3G UK and...
Yet another damning report has been published this week by HMP, this time on Wormwood Scrubs - finding its conditions give rise for ‘serious...
International energy company Vestas, which is a specialist for wind energy, has appointed CBRE to provide integrated FM across its worldwide property...
The 2016 Higher Education Estates and Facilities Awards took place at the Gala dinner on the final night of the annual AUDE conference held at Exeter...
The successful delivery of the Government Construction Strategy (GCS) Level 2 BIM objectives represents 'an internationally unparalleled...
As reported across a number national media this week (and with thanks for clarification to STV, the Irish Times and Irish independent), thirteen...
The Great Crested Newt is an endangered species under European law but in the UK there's lots of them. So Natural England, the government body...
SPIE UK’s Facilities Services business has been awarded a contract by Workman Facilities Management to provide mechanical and electrical...
A company in Derbyshire has been fined after a worker fell thirteen metres down a service riser shaft. Leicester Magistrates’ Court heard how...
A woman has been badly hurt after falling down a lift shaft on Thursday afternoon (March 31). The incident happened in the Starbucks in the High...
Firefighting continued through the night of Wednesday March 30 at the scene of the Saltley fire, with around 70 firefighters having to stay on...
Companies outsourcing their property and FM requirements have hit record levels across EMEA according to new data from CBRE. CBRE's EMEA Global...
Following the convulsion of the departure of Iain Duncan Smith at the DWP, a House of Lords Select Committee report has rubbed more salt into the...
Traffic congestion in the UK’s biggest cities is 14% worse than it was just five years ago, according to a major new report but across the rest...
Up to a third of workers in some areas of Britain are set for a pay rise as a result of the introduction of the National Living Wage (NLW), the new...
In what was the third time in her career she has stood before the Commons following a terrorist attack on the soil of a British ally, Teresa May said...
The MoD has taken back a contract from Serco that included military vetting and decided to do the job in-house. The £36 million contract...
Ofcom has put forward strict new rules to improve BT’s performance in installing high speed business lines and significantly reduce the...
The care of asylum seekers in Scotland has come under the spotlight following allegations of a Serco subcontractor failing to meet obligations under...
When Chancellor Osborne sat down having delivered his Budget, he did not look around too quickly to see the faces of little sweetness on his own...
Chancellor George Osborne was keen to go out of his way to put forward HS3 as a key part of his Northern Powerhouse scheme in his Budget. However, the...
According to news reports from the Los Angeles Times, LA Tribune and Fox News, an electrician has died (on Thurs 17) after falling 53 storeys from the...
Ryanair launched a corporate jet charter service, offering a Boeing 737-700 for corporate/group hire. We thought we'd take a look at exactly what...
London is most expensive city to accommodate an employee, a position it has held since June 2014, it has been declared. At £80,817 per person...
The human scale of the incident at Didcot Power Station last month was evident this week with the funeral of demolition man Mick Collins that was...
According to the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics, over 800,000 people are on a contract that guarantees no minimum hours in...
Continued demand for office space in Leeds has led to rents for refurbished space rising to £26 per sq ft (£280 per sq m) - only £1...
Lloyds Bank Commercial Banking has launched a first of its kind - £1 Billion green lending fund for commercial property to incentivise and...
Despite some modest gains in some regions in the world, millions of women are losing ground in their quest for equality in the world of work,...
Figures obtained by UCATT have revealed a decline in the number of inspections that HSE is undertaking on construction sites. The construction...
A woman who regularly beat her husband has been convicted of his murder - ThisWeekinFM, in association with the ManKind Initiative, publishes 30 facts...
Confidence in EDF as well as the Group’s share price plunged on Monday 7 when news reached the market that the energy company’s Finance...
Europe’s biggest ever floating solar panel array is being installed on London’s Queen Elizabeth II reservoir as part of Thames...
People in Rickmansworth are enjoying the fastest broadband speeds in the country, according to their average speed test data. Cable.co.uk has...
Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) has sold its 75% interest in London City Airport to a consortium. The announcement means that the consortium...
A new report claims that UK hospitals and clinics are putting disabled people and their carers at risk by not providing appropriate toilets. The...
The government’s revised investigatory powers Bill, due to pass through Parliament this month, is accused of demanding the...
Part of UBM Built Environment, Ecobuild still regards itself as the leading UK exhibition and conference event in the UK construction calendar. It...
BT must open up its network so competitors can connect fibre to homes and offices and it must reform Openreach to serve UK consumers and businesses...
Merlin Attractions which owns Alton Towers, the scene of the Smiler rollercoaster accident which left five people seriously injured, is to face...
The British Institute of Facilities Management has announced the appointment of Ray Perry (currently Chief Executive of the National Pawnbrokers...
A report released by London Assembly Member, Tom Copley identifies that a new Land Value Tax could encourage 'land bankers' and those...
Not Quite Full Circle for Serco A better performance in 2015 has helped lift the gloom for Serco but Rupert Soames, CEO admits damage to reputation...
An important report from the RCP and the RCPCH looks at the premature death of 40,000 people in the UK and examines the impact of exposure to air...
The London Space Academy staged what it described as 'an intervention - Space Probe Alpha', in London's Potters Field Park to encourage...
The US owned Maximus has been accused in the House of Commons of lying about its ‘fitness for work’ assessments for the DWP. Louise...
The National Contractors’ Forum for grounds maintenance contractors, BALI-NCF, has written to government ministers and members of the Low Pay...
The Department for Business, Innovation & Skills and Nick Boles MP have published the latest National Minimum Wage offenders list as the...
An exposé by the Sun newspaper appears to show that thousands of army personnel and families are living in atrocious conditions in military...
The Health and Safety Executive has today (Thurs 11) informed Foodles Production (UK) Ltd that it will be prosecuted over an incident in which actor...
A worker for Staffordshire County Council was found to be under so much pressure from her management that she hanged herself according to a...
The ruling by an employment tribunal that a dyslexic Starbucks employee was wrongly discriminated against on the grounds she falsified accounts could...
The latest 2015 British Retail Consortium (BRC) crime survey has revealed that violence and abuse against staff has increased...
A company which manufactured and installed windows has been fined £36,000 after carrying out work in the West End of London with no measures to...
Six years or so years after moving to Dublin to gain tax advantages, FTSE 250 insurance group Beazley is almost certain to come back to London -...
Act on 7 aims to address the needs of organisations that want to take action on their carbon footprint but either do not know how to or are struggling...
This week, Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General Matt Hancock took a little time to reveal that the government has reduced the size of...
Last week the City of London Police's Insurance Fraud Enforcement Department targeted 'slip and trip' fraudsters in a two-day crackdown...
The University of Huddersfield has reached an agreement with Beijing Construction Engineering Group to develop the company’s use of vital new...
The pomp and ceremony of the ‘agreement’ of a new Hinkley nuclear facility in Somerset last October appears to have blown up The deal,...
Fundamental flaws in the way the Regeneration Investment Fund for Wales (RIFW) was managed, overseen and advised has cost Welsh taxpayers tens of...
The Construction Skills Certification Scheme (CSCS) and the Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) have revoked 4,615 cards, following...
Road accidents will peak on 29 January with a projected rise of 74% up from the average figure for the rest of the year. The forecast has been made...
After the shocking exposure of abuse by some G4S staff at the Medway Secure Training Centre, its boss is forced to stand down. The BBC Panorama...
Blue Monday (this year Jan 18) is hailed as the most depressing day of the year but the whole of the month of January is possibly the darkest, coldest...
According to the union UCATT, eighteen workers were left high and dry without jobs or any idea of their future when council contracted employer Kier...
In December, the National Crime Agency (NCA) launched a campaign to discourage young people from becoming involved in cyber crime, after analysis of...
The NHS Litigation Authority has been prosecuted after an 82-year-old man fell 12ft to his death from an elevated walkway outside a health...
A parliamentary debate last week has highlighted government commitments to the disabled obtaining work and the experiences of the disabled. The...
New sentencing guidelines for health and safety offences, are set to ‘revolutionise’ punishment for health and safety offences with...
The government and the Metropolitan Police Force's announcement that there are going to be more armed officers available on the streets of...
The annual (this is the sixth) CBRE European Occupier Survey, released on the morning of Thurs 14, says 42% of the world’s leading...
The Building Futures Group has announced its business closure. Despite a lot of warmth for the organisation that came into being in 2014 following the...
A BBC Panorama programme aired on Monday has resulted in foru G4S staff being sacked and three suspended for alleged cases of mistreatment of youth...
With an enviable record in health and safety, the HSE has published six themes that its new five-year UK strategy will have for the...
The UK Green Building Council is launching a new research project that it hopes will tackle the way industry currently designs, constructs and...
The disruption this week for HSBC and its online customers appears to be over as it declared matters were now ‘stable’ but embarrassment...
The University of Huddersfield’s Director of Estates and Facilities, Colin Blair, has been awarded an MBE in the New Year’s Honours...
A new Public Health England (PHE) campaign is encouraging drinkers to take a break and have a Dry January. The reasons behind this latest drive are...
PHE has highlighted the blight of smoking-related lung disease for 1 million people in England and causes 25,000 deaths each year – twice the...
Cofely FM UK which is part of GDF Suez is to face a rebrand...but then so is GDF Suez. The name chosen? ENGIE. GDF Suez has taken on this name for...
Eight million Brits (16%) will hide presents for loved ones in their car this Christmas and almost six in ten of those doing so (58%) won’t take...
A new poll has found that most drivers in England, Wales and Northern Ireland do not want an extension of Scotland's...
Claiming to be the most authoritative, in-depth look at the telecoms and wireless networks of the UK and its nations a Connected Nations 2015 Report...
Ten years ago today, on the night of Saturday 10 December 2005, Tank 912 at the Hertfordshire Oil Storage Limited (HOSL) part of the Buncefield oil...
Anita Quansah-Okoe aged 52 from Shannon Grove, SW9 has been sentenced to 80hrs community service and ordered to pay £500 costs after she was...
One of the UK’s biggest gas distributers has been sentenced after admitting safety failings in relation to the death of a young boy. On 24...
In her latest annual report, ‘Health of the 51%: women’, the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Professor Dame Sally Davies makes recommendations...
The fear that the mainly coal-fired Lynemouth power station in Northumberland which is owned by RWE npower, would close with the loss of 135 jobs, has...
The London Business School has selected Cordant Security, after a competitive tender, to supply a range of services at its main site in Regent’s...
The following update was received on Weds, Dec 3 in relation to a fire in Newcastle city where one person lost their life. Northumbria Police and...
Chancellor George Osborne has claimed he is going to help an additional 25,000 disabled people on to the Access to Work (AtW) scheme, bringing the...
Chancellor George Osborne has stated that the high speed rail link connecting Crewe to Birmingham will open six years ahead of schedule in 2027. In...
On the eve of the opening in Paris of the United Nations climate change conference, widely known as COP21, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged all...
Chancellor George Osborne presented his autumn statement and spending review with a juggling of figures that will continue to be analysed for what...
On Tuesday, the BBC reported that a man who came from Pakistan to study in the UK has been jailed in the US for forty years. MI5 agents testified that...
Aberdeen Harbour, one of the busiest trust ports in the UK, has awarded Mitie Total Security Management a three year security contract following...
Doesn't time fly - we've nearly come full circle back to Black Friday weekend (yes they call it Black Friday and then extend right over the...
Yahya Rashid, who is just 19, was sentenced at Woolwich Crown Court to five years for terrorism offences on Wednesday for engaging in conduct with the...
The damaging allegations that testing does not match the ‘real world’, along with the deliberate emissions cheating by some models in the...
The total volume of office space under construction is at a seven-year high according to the latest Crane Survey from Deloitte. The results from...
The British Institute of Facilities management has lost another CEO. Having taken over last year from Gareth Tancred, James Sutton is set to do the...
An ACAS study has revealed that workplace bullying is on the rise with many people too afraid to talk about it. Published this week, the ACAS paper...
A leaked letter and evidence session has infuriated the Solar Trade Association following the government’s admission that the UK is not...
The cost to employers of implementing the new National Living Wage will be ‘significantly higher’ than official estimates with towns and...
Approximately half of organisations (49%) are decreasing their paper consumption, according to new research by AIIM, despite just 22% of businesses...
Prime minister David Cameron has committed to access to ‘superfast’ broadband will be put on a similar footing as other basic...
E.ON has had to apologise to business customers for failing to meet its obligation to install advanced electricity meters in time and has been fined...
The start of Living Wage Week saw London Mayor Boris Johnson announce the new London Living Wage being set at £9.40 per hour - an increase from...
Nick Hardwick, Chief Inspector of Prisons, could not have been more critical in his report – Court custody: urgent improvement required –...
Ahead of the 2015 Paris Climate conference, UK energy efficiency's decision makers have the opportunity to meet at the Energy Management...
A report* by the Equality and Human Rights Commission finds that the rights of the disabled are not progressing as they should. The findings will...
The row over the funding and location of London’s Garden Bridge may at least have had the financial side of the project resolved this...
A rise of 1% of those below the Proper Living Wage has been reported in the latest study by KPMG - that's nearly half a million people more...
The latest ONS figures released have highlighted a decline in construction activity during Q3, finding that output in the construction industry was...
The Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) and associated Construction Skills Certification Scheme (CSCS) have taken the issue of fraudulent...
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has provisionally given its consent to BT’s widely expected acquisition of EE. One major factor...
As we already know, the Hinkley Point C nuclear power station in Somerset will be jointly financed by the French energy group, EDF and the China...
JLL has announced that its Integrated Facilities Management (IFM) business in EMEA has been awarded a five year contract by Aon, the global provider...
Two companies have been sentenced for safety failings after a worker was electrocuted during work on a data centre in Middlesex. Balfour Beatty...
A campaign to improve working conditions in the cleaning industry has been launched by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) which has...
Ofsted is due to publish a report on Wednesday (October 21) about apprenticeships in the UK and has found some aspects wanting in terms of...
Fourteen cleaners at the Foreign Office employed by Interserve have complained this week of victimisation following a letter they sent to the Foreign...
The government has ‘named and shamed’ bosses who have failed to pay their workers the National Minimum Wage but the TUC argues this is not...
Following a report on BBC London Tonight (Wednesday 21 October) regarding people fraudulently obtaining Construction Skills Certification Scheme...
The future for the proposed Hinkley Point C nuclear power station has become clearer - national media including the BBC have confirmed a...
According to much of the national press this week, a 'new Shard' or 'mini-Shard' is already at concept stage for a build in...
The UK public has been left feeling vulnerable following an increase in highly personalised cybercrimes according to Get Safe Online, the joint public...
A new counter extremism strategy launched this week is said (by David Cameron and Theresa May) to tackle the full spectrum of harms caused by...
The Freight Transport Association has joined organisations in calling on the Chancellor to set a schedule for delivery of the Lower Thames...
A new survey by PwC reveals that certain employers expect to pay an extra £1.6 million each on average in wages in 2016 and up to £11...
The facts are quite stark – floods have cost UK insurers £4 billion in the last 10 years, a figure that will almost certainly will...
A huge blaze caused early evening traffic chaos in Manchester yesterday (Oct 12) as emergency services battled the fire in the historic headquarters...
Many businesses are still overly reliant on paper – which is why AIIM’s World Paper Free Day looks to remind us of practical ways to...
After a long running strike by the PCS union, an agreement has been reached that allows the National Gallery to go ahead with its outsourcing of...
The controversial employment practices of Sports Direct has come under the spotlight with news of ambulances being called to its warehouse...
A proposed £240 million waste incinerator on the outskirts of Belfast has been rejected by the Environment Minister. The incinerator caused a...
The ramifications for the car industry over the Volkswagen emissions scandal are serious on the manufacturer and far beyond. At the time of going...
Over two days (6-7 October 2015) the NEC, Birmingham, will host what is claimed to be the UK’s largest event for professionals with corporate...
Whether it can be regarded as the new Interbuild or an entirely different event UK Construction Week has been promoted to cater for all...
BSRIA has signed a partnership agreement with the CIBSE conference and exhibition at the QEII Conference Centre, Westminster, for this November....
The second Behind Closed Doors conference is returning to the City of London dealing with domestic abuse and the role employers can play. Organised...
BSRIA is staging its Compliance in FM – Update Networks Event on Friday, 2 October, from 10:00 until 14:30 hrs, in London and urges members and...
The scandal that emerged this week in the USA over Volkswagen using computer software to falsify emissions in test could spread wider. Beginning as...
While on a tour of China, Chancellor George Osborne has stated there is a £2 billion government guarantee for a new nuclear power station at...
A security guard was injured last week in an assault as protesters stormed London's City Hall on the south side of the river Thames. Officers are...
Mohamed Labre Chiadmi - also known as Adam Leno - pleaded guilty on Monday, 24 August to fraud by false representation and two counts of making false...
Chancellor George Osborne has announced a major investment in public health science with the creation of new public health laboratories in...
The German owned supermarket Lidl chain in the UK has become the first national supermarket to state that it will adopt the Proper Living...
Two cars belonging to Mihomecare were involved in separate vehicle incidents last week. The reasons why two Skoda Citigos, owned by the care...
The keynote speaker at the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers’ Conference and Exhibition in November will be Lord Deben, the...
Firefighters dealt with a small fire in an office block under refurbishment on Buckingham Gate in Westminster on Monday. A small amount of wood and...
The University of Wales Trinity Saint David (with campuses in Carmarthen, Lampeter and Swansea) has had to pay out £20,000 in compensation to...
A European Court decision this week could have a huge impact on the way some employers will have to treat certain staff. In finding against a...
On Monday September 7, Prime Minister David Cameron spoke to the House of Commons on the subject of counter terrorism and national security. Below is...
An interactive series that looks at some of the UK’s most well known buildings in the capital has been launched by the Facilities Show. The...
The UK jobs market is at its least optimistic level in three years, according to a report by ManpowerGroup. The workforce specialist states that...
This week, Bradford Crown Court heard that on 17 August 2012, Simon Brook, an employee of Gwynn Davies-McTiffin Ltd was found lying seriously injured...
A new cruise liner terminal that will bring thousands of tourists to the capital every year was given the green light by the Mayor of London’s...
CBRE's acquisition of Johnson’s Controls’ Global Workplace Solutions has been confirmed (Tues Sept 1) at a cost of about $1.475...
Imtech UK has announced (Tues 01 Sept) that it has concluded a deal to refinance its business through an investment from private equity firm Endless...
Following the recent discovery of a shipment of counterfeit wiring regulations, the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) is working with...
The bitter dispute over weekend working conditions for new members has led to a walk out by PCS staff at Scottish Museums. The point at issue that...
A recent voltage reduction trial hints that the non-residential sector may find itself unwilling to continue to invest in voltage optimisation...
Two strikes rock the Sellafield nuclear plant in Cumbria as members of Unite and GMB come out against management decisions. The simmering disputes...
A new 4by4 owner got more than he bargained for when he got stuck in mud this week in Chiswick, west London. Firefighters from the London Fire...
A major provider of real-time traffic information and connected driving services, INRIX has published its Traffic Scorecard Report that reveals UK...
CCTV images have proven useful in the hunt for a scholarly gentleman that walked off with an artwork worth over £100,00. Detectives from...
The Mayor of London, TfL and the Royal Parks have reached an agreement on the final section of the East-West Cycle Superhighway, with a segregated...
Construction unions UCATT and Unite have joined forces (Weds, Aug 19) for a series of co-ordinated protests at the headquarters of employers’...
BIFM has announced the finalists in this year’s Awards that recognise the best-in-class FM entries across the range of the sector. For...
US firm Smart City has been forced to reach an agreement with the FCCEB to stop blocking consumers using their own data plans and forcing them on to...
FM service provider Servest has bought the energy efficiency business Llewellyn Smith to expand its energy management provision...
The controversial women’s immigration detention centre of Yarl’s Wood has received a scathing report by HM Inspectorate of Prisons - with...
It was reported earlier this week that Imtech had gone into administration. In fact, it is the Dutch parent Royal Imtech N.V. that is in trouble and...
Five people have been arrested as part of an investigation by the Met Police's Counter Terrorism Command. Another man handed himself into police...
Military bomb disposal experts from 621 Squadron, 11 EOD Regiment, Royal Logistics Corps arrived at Temple Street, Bethnal Green on Monday (Aug 10)...
War has been declared on cleaning companies, building firms, care homes and others that employ illegal migrants. Immigration Minister James...
This week saw truck drivers riding around Belfast on cycles as part of a new scheme aimed at improving safety for all road users. The Freight...
There has been a call for the richest football clubs in the English Premier league to improve accessibility following a Private Member’s Bill...
Reed, one of the biggest UK employment agencies, has lost a case in the Court of Appeal (heard over Tuesday and Wednesday July 21/22) and now faces an...
Left-Handers’ Day takes place on 13 August of every year and it offers the chance for left-handers everywhere to celebrate their...
The government has confirmed that it expects public sector workers dealing face to face with customers to speak English fluently. New legislation...
A 20-year-old man who made his way onto the roof of a seven storey building is believed to have sat down on the edge of a chimney and then...
A senior employee at a hotel has been found guilty of rape after attacking a man who was attending a faked job interview. Sebastian Szerer, 39 of...
Update 09:15 on July 31 The search and rescue teams are continuing their search, while firefighters continue to cool the silos. Options to fully...
Seven men have been jailed for 64 years for their varying involvement in 10 smash and grab raids across London. Two more people are to be sentenced...
BSRIA has expressed its concern over the new Secretary of State for Energy & Climate Change’s debut speech. Along with a number of...
Employers and recruiters have just hours to share their stories on their involvement with disabled talent by entering the Recruitment Industry...
The serious accident at Alton Towers theme park, Staffordshire, in early June has had a dramatic impact on owner, Merlin Entertainments', trading...
Last week, another pedestrian, this time a 76 year old woman, was knocked down and killed in a car park accident, reminding FMs that they must pay...
IKEA has been praised for stating that it will be paying its UK staff above the Living Wage in 2016, the first retailer in the country to do...
The Freight Transport Association (FTA) has made clear its opposition to proposals being considered by the Conservative government for peak-hour bans...
Up to 85% of disabled people find that their condition has an impact when job-hunting, according to new research. The findings come from the...
As reported in ThisWeekinFM last week, officers from the Metropolitan Police Service’s Counter Terrorism Command (SO15) arrested three men on...
Ten fire engines and 72 firefighters and officers have attended a pallet yard fire on Mollison Avenue in Enfield. The whole of the yard and 25 motor...
Fire and rescue crews have been called to a report of an explosion at a Wood Mill in Bosley near Macclesfield in Cheshire. Four people have been...
The scene pictured here is of Liverpool Street London Underground station foyer where a huge bucket of paint was spilt yesterday (Thurs...
The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, has just published the world’s first report to use updated methods to assess the true health and economic...
A response by Richard Sykes, Chair of the Living Wage Service Providers Leadership Group and CEO of ISS UK & Ireland: The announcement in the...
Officers from the Metropolitan Police Service’s Counter Terrorism Command (SO15) arrested three men on Tuesday afternoon (July 14) on suspicion...
Aslef, Unite and the RMT has been joined by TSSA (Transport Salaried Staffs' Association) in declaring a further London Underground strike (Weds...
Officers from the Norfolk Constabulary confirmed that two people have died at the scene of an industrial incident which happened at 9:20am on Monday...
This week saw memorial services and dedications remembering the incidents of July 7 ten years ago. We have the views from the police on duty that day...
Capita has acquired GL Hearn, a UK property consultancy business, for a cash consideration of £25m on a cash free, debt free basis, plus a...
The Chancellor has announced a compulsory National Living Wage to be administered by the Low Paid Commission. The Office for Budget...
The police and fire brigade have been involved in an evacuation of a number of premises following the discovery of a WW2 shell in London's...
Around 120 firefighters and officers tackled a fire at a warehouse containing a number of commercial and factory units in London on Saturday night...
Four men involved in a series of smash and grab robberies across London, dating back as far as 2007, were convicted on Friday, (July 3) at Kingston...
Ballots of RMT members concluded on Tuesday meaning there will be a strike on London Underground and other local and regional services. All four tube...
According to the Construction Enquirer (CE) this morning, Vinci PLC has reported massive losses for its civil engineering and construction arms for...
Detectives from the Homicide and Major Crime Command who were investigating the serious assault of a Serco prisoner custody officer have learned this...
A major exercise to test the emergency services and Government response to a terrorist attack was held in central London over two days this...
The former Olympic Stadium at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park saw tragedy at the weekend as a man fell to his death. The HSE has now stated this is not a...
A major exercise to test the emergency services and Government response to a terrorist attack started on Tuesday and will continue on...
According to the BBC and The Guardian news website, a man has been beheaded and at least one other person injured in a suspected Islamist attack on a...
This Wednesday (June 24) a district court of the Hague in the Netherlands ruled that the Dutch government was legally obliged to meet a 25% reduction...
Sometimes working late is the only way to get to the top, as a late worker found out after being rescued from the roof of his office...
Sunday 21 June saw a massive train crash and car incident in south London...fortunately it was a planned training exercise involving volunteers...
The Mace Group Board has appointed Ross Abbate as MD of Macro UK, Europe and North America with immediate effect. The appointment follows the...
The latest construction output from ONS indicates that overall activity in the industry may have dropped by 0.8% in April compared to March but new...
The Department for Business, Innovation & Skills has stated that the term ‘apprenticeship’ will be protected in law. With over 2.2...
The Federation of Master Builders (FMB) has criticised the Westminster government of failing to follow the Scottish government’s announcement...
The decision by the Welsh government that it intends to ban next year the use of e-cigarettes in enclosed public spaces and workplaces, has been...
Sodexo UK and Ireland has (Weds 17 at the Facilities Show) announced that it is now a formally Recognised Service Provider working together with the...
AVEX 2015, seen as the vending sector’s most important biennial event, takes place from 30 June-1 July at Manchester Central. It will be opened...
The London Assembly has voted against Boris Johnson’s current plans for the controversial Garden Bridge. The bridge has been particularly...
The conventional images of Islamic State have tended to be of atrocities and destruction but cyber-hacking now appears to be another weapon it's...
A new international standard for facilities management has been formally approved to proceed into development by the International Organisation for...
As part of World FM Day, Global FM has announced the Awards of Excellence this morning. Global FM is the worldwide alliance of facilities...
The closure of the Strand Underpass and two months of upheaval may be coming to an end with its partial reopening this week. this came as a result...
A mother and her two children had a miraculous escape according to The Chronicle after manhole explosion in Northampton. The three narrowly avoided...
Monday (June 1) morning saw firefighters assisting at a bizzare but potentially highly dangerous scene following a partial roof collapse (about 20...
World No Tobacco Day took place on Sunday 31 May and was billed as a great starting point for many people to take the plunge and stop smoking (or...
Waltham Forest Borough Council was been fined after the court was satisfied that it had exposed members of staff and visiting contractors to the...
England’s bathing season is officially open - and its best-loved seas and lakes are cleaner than ever, claims the Environment Agency as our...
What seemed like a serious crash this morning on the A14 didn't deter some motorists from filming of taking pictures from the opposite highway....
The Rail Maritime and Transport union has confirmed that Network Rail (NR) members will be taking 24 hours of strike action from 5pm Thursday 4th June...
The AA claims it has evidence that the M25 Dartford Crossing tolling scheme is double charging drivers. It has received a number of complaints from...
Partners Group, the global private markets investment manager, is developing a Grade A office building at 80 Fenchurch Street in the City of London on...
Crown Estate has become Living Wage accredited meaning that everyone working for The Crown Estate, regardless of whether they are permanent employees...
The Shepherd Group and Wates Group has just today confirmed that they have reached a preliminary agreement on the sale of two of Shepherd Group's...
National waste management services provider Biffa will install CCTV in its waste collection vehicles to help prevent loss of life of those sleeping in...
The bitter dispute between the GMB union and SITA Sembcorp UK at the Teesside Waste To Energy Construction Site in Redcar carried on over the...
A protest has been organised over the alleged exclusion of locals from jobs on a construction site in favour of cheaper labour where only one in ten...
Following TWinFM’s widespread coverage of the dangers of mobile use at the wheel and high profile prosecutions, the latest police figures are...
One of the UK's biggest providers of care to elderly and disabled people, is accused of paying workers less than the minimum wage. MiHomecare...
The GMB union is still determined to battle on in its dispute with Barking & Dagenham Council despite two other unions settling. The two other...
SAVE Britain's Heritage - or SAVE for short - has launched a petition calling upon Edward Byrne, President and Principal of King's College...
Cushman & Wakefield and DTZ have reached a definitive agreement to merge and are set to become one of the largest global real estate services...
This week saw the announcement by BT that it aims to acquire EE and become a mobile provider again 10 years after it sold its stake in the Cellnet...
According to Sir Cary Cooper (as opposed to the High Noon actor Gary Cooper who has no relevance to this story other than to provide a clickbait...
A gang who targeted and violently attacked a security guard delivering cash to HSBC bank on Baker Street, W1 have been found guilty of conspiracy to...
The Security Industry Authority [SIA] has started the revocation process for yet another 129 SIA licences that are linked to alleged training and...
Many readers will be aware that Justices at the UK's highest court - the Supreme Court - have ordered the Government and the Mayor of London to...
The full cause of the destructive fire at Clandon Park House is unlikely to be known soon because of its 'complexity'. In a press statement...
A ballot for strike action on the Docklands Light Railway by the RMT union along with a separate dispute with Interserve points to disruption next...
The controversy over the control of 400 detainees at Yarl’s Wood in Bedfordshire continued over the weekend with Serco denying that...
Relations between the Unite union and Sellafield Contractor Group has hit another low as disputes lead to a vote for industrial...
Wardens who work at Windsor Castle have voted overwhelmingly for industrial action over a dispute about low pay. In a ballot of 76 of the wardens...
The French-owned EDF Energy and the UK government have yet to agree on the modernising of Hinkley Power Station which is estimated to cost between...
Following what the National Specialist Contractors Council (NSCC) described as last year’s ‘successful revisions’ to the online...
Wandsworth Council in London has published its shortlist for the Nine Elms to Pimlico bridge competition. The local authority revealed the four...
The fire that started on April Fools Day (Wednesday 1 April) in a tunnel on Kingsway, Holborn in London burned until Good Friday - with a mass...
The HSE has released a statement on the Government’s final progress report on health and safety reforms. This final progress report from the...
As reported in the national media, today is expected to see the highest levels of atmospheric pollution affect large parts of the country. DEFRA...
This Sunday Dave Sissens, from High Roding, will be attempting a first – running all the way between Paris and London including over the English...
FM expert, George Lilley, has joined Acorn as a Non-Executive Director. A graduate of the FT Diploma for Non-Executive Directors and a Fellow of...
Since the beginning of April, McQuay (UK) has traded under the new name Daikin Applied (UK) Ltd and Daikin Applied Service. The renamed...
The Easter weekend saw pleasant Spring weather but the week before was full of storms that caused injuries and damage to property across the...
The CBRE Group Inc. has just announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the Global WorkPlace Solutions business of Johnson...
The Incentive FM Group has been accredited as a Living Wage Provider, formalising the company’s commitment to paying the employees that...
HSBC has confirmed today that the head office of its UK ring-fenced bank, serving HSBC UK’s personal and business customers, will be located in...
Earth Hour which began originally in Sydney, Australia in 2007, is meant to be a symbolic and spectacular display for everyone to show they care about...
Business Minister Jo Swinson has named 48 employers who have failed to pay their workers the National Minimum Wage. Between them, the companies...
Three bodies have joined together to publish a guide to help those involved with preparing and using specifications. BSRIA, the Chartered...
A tragic suicide has focussed attention on securing access to roof tops of tall buildings. The police have subsequently condemned the actions of a...
The use of x-ray scanners to deal with the large scale 'import' of drugs into prisons is being seriously considered by the Justice Secretary...
The National Minimum Wage rises by 20 pence an hour this week and causes the usual dispute about whether it is too little or too much. Affecting...
The trench warfare between the management of the National Gallery and the PCS union is set to continue with more strike action next week. The third...
MiHomecare, one of the UK's biggest providers of care to elderly and disabled people, is said to be paying workers less than the minimum wage, an...
Back in October, ThisWeekinFM heard the rumour that there were three potential bidders for the massive Johnson Controls' Global Workplace...
After the public relations disaster last week over the Channel 4 News investigation into its running of Yarl’s Wood detention centre, Serco has...
Following an exposé on Channel 4 News the attention has now shifted to Mitie’s operations at Harmondsworth near Heathrow Airport. The...
The Building Futures Group has launched its FM Manifesto Survey. The Survey is open to all involved in the FM industry and the organisation’s...
New hospital food standards that are due to come into effect next month in the NHS have been described as ‘feeble’ by cookery writer and...
The trouble for Serco has continued with the latest exposé by Channel 4 News. The coverage uncovered a number of staff at the Bedfordshire...
For the first time ever limits have been set for illegal drugs, including heroin, cocaine, LSD and cannabis as well as a number of medicinal drugs...
A case against a crane hire company and its director over the deaths of an employee and member of the public when a tower crane collapsed at a...
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has published figures showing that employers have been using more people on zero hour contracts. In its...
This week the names of 70 employers who failed to pay their workers the National Minimum Wage (NMW) were published earlier this week. Between them,...
The Church of England has had to face the embarrassment of being accused of hypocrisy when it emerged that it has failed to pay some of its staff less...
The second five-day strike by members of the Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) at the National Gallery in London began on Sunday, 22 February...
Following on from the report of Welsh hospitals taking stringent steps against e-cigarettes by patients, staff and visitors, Scottish hospitals appear...
Details have been released on London’s so-called Garden Bridge’s cladding that will act as a protective ‘skin’. The...
From Monday, 16 February, London’s streets have seen an additional 600 Roads and Transport Policing Command (RTPC) officers operating at...
AIMing for floatation PTSG announced last year that it intended to list on AIM and has now filed documents to the London Stock Exchange - its...
Whilst on a tour of the USA, Mayor of London Johnson stopped-off in Boston to argue the case for five flyunders in London. Boston's own scheme is...
According to government figures, 3 million children are at risk from secondary smoking in vehicles and the law on banning this will come into force on...
The London Fire Brigade points out that many false alarms are not caused by children or those with a bent to cause problems as 36% last year were from...
The British Heart Foundation (BHF) has urged employers to help workers kick-start a healthier lifestyle during Heart Month following a study that...
Unite has postponed two 24 hour London wide bus strikes, scheduled for Friday 13 February and Monday 16 February. The union is still calling on the...
The Metropolitan Police force has been found culpable in losing thousands of mobile devices with a potential threat to security. Organisations up and...
The British Institute of Facilities Management and the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development have opened The Workplace Conversation - an...
Although Welsh hospitals have employed a no smoking ban both inside and outside their hospitals, the attempt to impose fines is something that is new....
Steve Davies, a well known 'operator' in the FM provider market, has just been appointed by the Kier Group as MD of its facilities management...
Exactly a week ago (Friday January 30), Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne announced £100m of infrastructure development in new dock...
Two organisations involved with road safety have accused the government of complacency and poor funding for an increase in injuries and deaths on the...
In mid-January, ISS UK Limited, a global provider of facility services, acquired the UK & European operations of engineering firm GSH Group Plc...
Arthur McKay, the building support services company, has announced the launch of its facilities management offer throughout the UK which is based on...
Stonewall has published its Top 100 Employers 2015 that displays the UK’s best employers for lesbian, gay and bisexual staff. Nottinghamshire...
GMB members have voted to strike following a long running dispute with Kier May Gurney and its refuse and recycling operations in North...
The threat of the temporary closure of the National Gallery, London next Tuesday for five days, has come from what appears to be a critical...
It is not a well known fact that Burnley once had an earwig play for them - wearing the number 0 shirt. The diminutive creature became so popular the...
Following a number of similar raids as reported in ThisWeekinFM in 2014, yet another smash and grab raid has taken place on a jewellers - this time on...
Sheffield Heeley MP Meg Munn (pictured) has criticised the Government’s Employer Ownership Fund (EOF) as not fit for purpose after learning that...
Plans for sharing council services have been proposed by Middlesbrough Council that would see a joint venture with Norse. If approved, it could affect...
CBRE has bought Dallas based commercial real estate firm United Commercial Realty which manages retail properties for institutional investors and...
ISS UK Limited, a global provider of facility services, has acquired the UK & European operations of engineering firm GSH Group Plc with a view to...
The Cordant Group, which has operated in both the recruitment sector (with an emphasis on the blue collar services) and the cleaning, security and...
Fire crews were called to a small fire at a hospital in Edinburgh this morning (Friday 16 Jan) but sadly and elderly woman died at the scene....
Criticism of the way Nuclear Management Partners has managed its clean up measures at Sellafield has led to the termination of its £9...
Oxfordshire's Fire and Rescue service dealt with three major fires in South Oxfordshire - one, at council offices, is as a result of a...
Yet another bolt has fallen from the Cheesegrater building in London causing some embarrassment to owners British Land who had revealed a successful...
A fatal injury occurred earlier this week when a staff member at the Blackpool branch of Waterstones in Blackpool was crushed when a sign, loosened by...
Transport for London is continuing to warn bus passengers that their journeys could be significantly disrupted today (Tuesday 13 January) due to...
Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service (GMFRS) was called to an Ikea store in Wellington Road, Ashton-under-Lyne last Saturday morning after...
Vicky Lopez of De-Ice (a gritting specialist that utilises a variety of weather forecasting systems to run the business) has tapped into her resources...
Andrew Parker, the Director General of the Security Service (MI5) has given a speech to the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) on the challenges...
The Met Office has issued a number of severe weather warnings for northern parts of the UK as the first of two Atlantic storms battered Scotland with...
The latest report from the Environmental Audit Committee has demanded that the government must move against the construction of new schools, hospitals...
A joint statement from the Chair of the Cleaning & Support Services Association (CSSA) and the Chair of The Building Futures Group (TBFG) has...
Following a trial at Portsmouth Crown Court, Craig Eccleston-Todd, 27, of Clifford Street, Newport, was found guilty of causing death by dangerous...
Said to be the UK’s first waste report that calculates the carbon emissions generated during the waste management process, clients will now be...
As we head back to work in the New Year, office staff have told researchers that when the sun is shining they don't think about what might be...
Last week arrests were made at Westfield Shopping Centre, White City, London as a demonstration got out of hand. ThisWeekinFM asked Westfield how they...
The case involving Kiruna Stamell, the Australian born actress with dwarfism, who took the Post Office to a tribunal because she was having...
The Building Futures Group has declared its intention to produce its public affairs strategy as the UK begins to prepare for next year’s General...
New food regulations came into force today - some of which impact on organisations serving food who will now have to provide 'advice' to...
Prison sentences for a construction company director and safety consultant convicted following the death of a labourer during basement extension work...
Having won the £250,000 contract to design and manufacture the (one-way) glass, which was been inserted into the floor of each of the two 11.5m...
Detectives from the Metropolitan Police Service Roads and Transport Policing Command ‘Operation Catcher’ team commenced an investigation...
A report has shown that the Climate Change Agreement for UK data centres is already having a beneficial impact. The report, which was unveiled at a...
Did you know that this year's police 'Don't Drink and Drive' Christmas campaign is now 50 years old. As has become traditional, it got...
Mike Butterick of Glassolutions (the firm behind the project) responds to the problems encountered with the glass walkway at Tower Bridge -...
Tomasz Procko, 22, from Greenford died at the scene. Karol Szymanski, 29, from Wembley died later in hospital. One of the men is thought to have...
News has come to ThisWeekinFM that all military clubs in London have all been placed on a 'high security' alert. Meanwhile, the collateral...
The Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) of Parliament has today published its Report on the intelligence relating to the murder of Fusilier Lee...
This week saw the eagerly awaited launch of Guide M by the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers. The event was held at the Royal...
Just weeks after its opening, the glass walkway on Tower Bridge has been damaged by a night time reveller. The damage to one of the six glass...
The Ambulance Service is expecting to be under significant pressure on Monday 24 November when ambulance staff take strike action for a second time in...
Despite a number of organisations critcising the government’s Green Deal energy efficiency scheme, the UK Green Building Council (UK-GBC) has...
Change London, CBRE, the global real estate advisor, and global law firm, King & Wood Mallesons (KWM), have 'tuned in' together to promote...
The Serco Group has just announced that Chairman, Alastair Lyons, has informed the Board of his intention to step down once a new Chairman has been...
In July this year, the Mayor of London said in a tweet, it was 'bollocks' to suggest that Oxford Street had one of the worst air pollution...
According to the Daily Mail Online (and picked-up by most of the national media), two men were rescued from a collapsed window cleaning...
It was announced yesterday in Boston that IronMountain, a storage and information management firm, had signed a definitive agreement to divest its...
Bids for the old Swiss Re building at 30 St Mary Axe aka The Gherkin were lodged recently from around the world with the expectation that a number of...
According to The Telegraph this morning, the 'super bid' of £6 billion from the Qatar Investment Authority and Brookfield (the Canadian...
As reported in a variety of media yesterday evening and this morning, part of a bolt - 'the size of a man's arm' - has fallen from the...
Workers have won an Employment Tribunal case that entitles them to have their holiday pay recalculated to include overtime payments rather than being...
Research released today suggests that UK businesses could be losing out on savings of nearly £1 billion based on original research results...
The Living Wage involves about 60,000 workers and 1,000 businesses and organisations and this week sees the London rate rise to £8.80. In the...
This year’s Workplace Week, the annual week-long celebration of workplace innovation organised by AWA to raise money for Children in Need,...
Hopes for the completion of the Nottingham Tram extension this December appear to be dashed and contractor, Taylor Woodrow Alstom, has been blamed....
A man who was arrested in connection with a fire at a fireworks warehouse in Stafford has been released. Two people are confirmed dead. Firefighters...
The National Grid has published its Winter Outlook which states that though its gas position is strong, electricity margins are 'tighter but...
November is a month for getting out the winter clothes but increasingly it is also about promoting greater awareness of the fight against prostate...
International property adviser, CBRE, has been appointed to provide FM services to Airbus at its two UK sites Following a tender process, CBRE was...
In the early hours of last Friday, EU Leaders agreed to further cuts in CO2 emissions - 40% by 2030, compared with 1990 levels - with the EC President...
Further to our report earlier this week (See Property Section - Heron Gulps Down Last of Land), Societe Generale and the Canary Wharf Group and have...
Canada, which has joined the US and UK in targeting IS in Iraq, has a growing problem with 'Muslim' extremism and the threat of guerrilla...
According to the wharf.co.uk, detailed plans for Canary Wharf Group's latest tower have been submitted, with French bank Societe Generale reported...
According to the Newcastle Chronicle, a man has been injured as a crane, that was being dismantled because of high winds, collapsed on a Wates...
Experts from the Oxfordshire Fire & Rescue Service have already begun an investigation into the cause of a major blaze at Didcot B power station...
In something of a shock decision, Liverpool's new Everyman Theatre has won the coveted Stirling Prize and beaten the favourites - the LSE’s...
London Olympia was the focal point for contrasting groups with major property developers and owners, ministers and scores of international investors,...
The European Public Real Estate Association’s best practice recommendations in environment and sustainability standards are helping power...
Overseas investors accounted for 72% of all investment in Central London office space in Q3 2014, according to the latest research by CBRE, the global...
'Employers have an exaggerated fear of employing ex-offenders' says Business in the Community' but 25 employers with a combined...
Counter terrorism officers arrested a further three men on 13 October. All three - aged 24, 21 and 25 were arrested on suspicion of being concerned in...
The Mayor of London is bidding to preserve London’s key business districts by urging the Government to reconsider proposals that could see...
'We have the strength to maintain our course and continue to make things happen. In a period of global uncertainty, this strength and...
The international engineering, FM and energy company SPIE, with its headquarters in Paris, has embarrassingly had to drop its plans to raise money via...
The Rail, Maritime & Transport (RMT) union has confirmed that industrial action due to commence on Tuesday evening on London Underground has been...
Planet First's Steve Malkin says that following a landmark UN agreement, carbon management has finally moved to priority status in the property...
Sir David Attenborough, naturalist, broadcaster and national treasure will officially open the University of Bristol’s new £56.5...
According to the BBC, a construction worker has died having been hit by a truck at Heathrow Airport's recently reopened Terminal 2 (where some...
Three men were arrested on 3 October, as the Flying Squad wound their way down to Baker Street in connection with the robbery of a security guard as...
Last night, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) launched their new RICS Strategic Facilities Management (FM) case studies, building on...
The 1 October was publicised as being a red-letter day when tax discs in the windscreens of UK vehicles were no longer required. Instead, thousands...
Anjem Choudary, a so-called Muslim extremist preacher and nine other men have been released on police bail following their arrest on terror related...
In the lead up to this week's Climate Summit, the UN's New York Headquarters become a canvas for a work entitled 'llluminations -...
Last week the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) and the Building Futures Group (BFG) announced they were launching a new initiative to...
Noonan, the largest outsourced FM provider in the Republic of Ireland has almost doubled in size through its acquisition of the business and...
Widely regarded as the Hatton Garden of Scotland, the Argyll Arcade hosts more than 30 jewellers and diamond merchants all under one roof and boasts...
Enquires are ongoing after a man was found dead in a burning skip wagon in Ardwick outside the Manchester O2 Apollo on Monday morning. Greater...
The Royal Bank of Scotland, which had made contingency plans to leave Scotland and head to London if the Scottish referendum on independence had gone...
The Australian Government has had to move quickly this week against a fanatical group following information it received on a terrorist threat as well...