Cleaning Industry news

• Bid consultancy partners with Lightbulb Credit

  01-11-2022 13:31 via fmj.co.uk
  Bid consultancy, Stephen Alexander, has joined forces with Lightbulb Credit to enhance its bid consultancy services for clients looking to win new public and private sector contracts.
  Set up earlier this year by Co-Founders, Alex Footman, and Stephen Timmins, Stephen Alexander works with a range of different businesses across the facilities management sector.
  Lightbulb Credit is the UK’s first trade credit rating advisory business and offers whole market credit rating review, improvement,
  
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• New £155m MoD FM contract comes into service in Gibraltar

  01-11-2022 12:03 via fmj.co.uk
  The first of a new suite of contracts to provide key services for the UK Armed Forces on overseas Ministry of Defence (MoD) bases has come into service.
  The £155 million contract which is for an initial period of seven years, was awarded to Mitie in May by the Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) for the provision of maintenance work, repairs, servicing, and hard facilities management to the MOD’s estate in Gibraltar, and is expected to directly sustain around 200 jobs.
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• City West Support Services joins the Atlas family

  01-11-2022 10:01 via fmj.co.uk
  Atlas FM has announced an agreement to join with one of London’s leading cleaning companies, City West Support Services.
  City West supports some of the capital’s best-known buildings and organisations. Customers include commercial and residential property managers, professional services companies, and educational establishments.
  Its cleaners are trained to a high level via its in-house academy and accredited British Institute of Cleaning Science (BICSc) Assessment Centre. It is
  
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• Almost £59bn worth of assets are sitting idle across UK businesses

  01-11-2022 09:39 via fmj.co.uk
   New research by reuse specialist, Ramco, reveals UK firms have nearly £59 billion worth of capital tied up in working assets and equipment they no longer need. 
  As pressure mounts to find new ways to reduce the cost of doing business, Ramco is therefore urging businesses to contribute to the circular economy and find new homes for idle items, rather than letting them go to waste.
  The new data shows 67 per cent of respondents – as many as 3.7 million UK businesses &nda
  
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• Nearly one fifth of recycling waste is contaminated

  01-11-2022 09:01 via fmj.co.uk
  Nearly one fifth (17 per cent) of England and Wales’ waste (from both businesses and households) cannot be recycled due to contamination, according to new research by waste management firm Biffa. 
  The experts analysed the latest available WRAP waste collection data between 2016 and 2020 to determine the contamination rate, based on the amounts of non-target and non-recyclable materials that entered UK material recycling facilities (MRFs). 
  After a recent WRAP surve
  
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• Smart Buildings Show 2022 attracts record numbers

  01-11-2022 08:51 via fmj.co.uk
  The leading event for the smart buildings sector, Smart Buildings Show, returned to ExCeL London on 12-13 October and once again attracted visitors from across the industry.
  The 2022 show boasted over 70 exhibitors showcasing the latest product innovations designed to deliver smarter buildings.
  Over the two day event 2,283 visitors packed into the exhibition hall and took in presentations from more than 50 leading speakers discussing a diverse range of industry hot topics – from sustainabi
  
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• Kim Phillips receives MBE

  01-11-2022 08:30 via cleaningmag.com
  Kim Phillips has been awarded the Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) at Buckingham Palace.
  
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• Westminster rolls out electric street cleansing bikes

  01-11-2022 01:00
  In London, waste management services provider Veolia has rolled out a fleet of electric street cleansing bikes in partnership with Westminster City Council.The set of 14 new bikes are an addition to the extensive Westminster fleet of over 60 electric street cleansing and collections vehicles.Using a bike in replacement of a diesel vehicle not only significantly reduces noise pollution, but allows for a 100 per cent reduction in nitrogen oxide emissions. The electric bikes contribute towards the
  
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