Cleaning Industry news

• Mitie on the road to a zero-emission fleet by the end of 2025

  21-12-2022 12:39 via fmj.co.uk
  Mitie is on course to switch its fleet to zero emission vehicles by the end of 2025, having welcomed its 3,000th electric vehicle (EV) to its fleet.
  Mitie began its EV transition in December 2018, with 42 per cent of the company’s UK-wide fleet now electric, following more than 1,000 new electric vehicles joining the fleet during 2022.
  The home of the new vehicle will be Merryhill Shopping Centre in Dudley, West Midlands, on Mitie’s Greener Cities landscaping contract. Greener Cities
  
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• New head of sustainability at Kier

  21-12-2022 10:47 via fmj.co.uk
  Kier has appointed Anna Baker as Head of Sustainability for its Construction business.
  This latest appointment builds on the Group’s newly formed Responsible Business team and underlines its commitment to sustainably delivering infrastructure which is vital to the UK.
  Baker will be responsible for delivering Kier Construction’s targets as part of the Group’s ‘Building for a Sustainable World’. These include achieving net zero carbon across business operati
  
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• Multi-million pound cleaning contract awarded at SETU

  21-12-2022 10:30 via cleaningmag.com
  Mount Charles has announced a multi-million pound contract with South East Technological University (SETU) sites located in Munster and Leinster.
  
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• FES renews hard services deal with UCB

  21-12-2022 10:19 via fmj.co.uk
  Following a competitive tender process, Stirling-based FES Group has renewed its contract with biopharmaceutical firm, UCB, for the provision of hard FM services across its property portfolio.
  FES has maintained UCB sites since 2017 and says it looks forward to continuing the collaboration as UCB embarks on relocating from Slough in Berkshire to a larger facility in Surrey.
  Dylan Fletcher, GES Group Chief Executive Officer commented:“FES FM Ltd is delighted to have been awarded the UCB con
  
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• New Board appointments at Willmott Dixon

  21-12-2022 09:47 via fmj.co.uk
  Willmott Dixon has announced two key appointments to its Main Board from 1 January 2023.
  The first will see Chief Sustainability Officer Julia Barrett promoted to the Board as Director responsible for sustainability and non-financial compliance. Barrett has guided the company’s sustainability strategy over the past decade, including the aim to become a zero-carbon business by 2030 through the Now or Never strategy. Alongside sustainability, her remit will also include being the Board repre
  
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• FM 2022 challenges and 2023 predictions

  21-12-2022 09:06 via fmj.co.uk
  In 2022, as we emerged from COVID there were fresh challenges for FMs, including inflation, rising energy prices, managing hybrid working practices and dealing with skills shortages. How do you think the sector has adapted to the challenges this year and what do you predict are the main issues to watch out for next year?
  THE RICS PROFESSIONAL’S VIEWPAUL BAGUST,HEAD OF PROPERTY STANDARDS, RICS
  “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence is not an act, but a habit” Aristotle.
  In pe
  
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• CBRE set to acquire Swedish firm H2M

  21-12-2022 09:02 via fmj.co.uk
  Commercial real estate services and investment firm, CBRE Group, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire H2M Sverige AB, (H2M), a leading technical maintenance and property management services company in Sweden.
  Founded in 2003 and headquartered in Stockholm, H2M has more than 180 employees in four locations across Sweden and self-delivers specialised technical maintenance services for properties across several sectors including, transport, public, office, shopping malls, logistics, h
  
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• Overseas expansion: LCM Environmental acquires PIS (Ireland) and marks the beginning of the LCM Group in a seven-figure deal

  21-12-2022 08:56 via fmj.co.uk
  With their second acquisition in the past month, LCM Environmental expand to Irish soil with the purchase of PIS (Ireland). This acquisition provides the fuel quality and tank infrastructure business with an opportunity to further increase its focus on overseas facility management projects, forecourt services and to serve other public and private organisations that have previously been outside of their scope.
  LCM Environmental have exhibited unprecedented growth in the past two years – the
  
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• An everyday cleaning case study

  21-12-2022 01:00
  Katja Scholz in Germany brings us a cleaning case study from her recent visit to an alpaca farm.During an extended trip this summer, I came across an alpaca farm. It had rained very hard that day, so I sat with a coffee in the comfortable farm shop and looked out at the almost 60-strong herd of alpacas which had found their home here. The farm shop with café attached is located in a converted barn. In the roughly 200 square metre space of farm shop Robert, the farm’s owner, sells ev
  
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