• NEC Group announces ‘ground-breaking’ carbon savings through improved waste management practices

    NEC Group announces ‘ground-breaking’ carbon savings through improved waste management practices
    UK live events company, NEC Group, has announced its ground-breaking environmental achievement of carbon savings – the equivalent of 3,670 tree saplings breathing for the next decade.
    Working in partnership with international facilities service specialist OCS Group and sustainable waste management company Biffa, the NEC Group is taking its next steps towards net zero by 2040, by improving its sustainable waste management operations. This forms part of the NEC Group’s newly published
  • Restore Records Management launches campaign to show physical data more respect

    Restore Records Management launches campaign to show physical data more respect
    Restore Records Management has launched a campaign for physical data to be given more respect and warns that the UK’s “paperless dream” needs to be reviewed.
    The company says that the country has been chasing digital transformation for years, with large numbers of businesses going fully digital and reaping the benefits but that the idea that all companies across all sectors will be paper free in the near future, and that physical records could soon be extinct, has proved way wi
  • How can we attract more talent to work in FM?

    How can we attract more talent to work in FM?
    By Toby Feldman, Marketing Executive at Infraspeak
    As I wandered around the Facilities Show 2023 in the ExCeL Centre, London, chatting to managers from companies big and small, I asked people: “What is the biggest challenge impacting your operations right now?” They’d respond along the lines of: “Hiring! Absolutely. It’s really, really hard to fill vacancies at the moment”
    Immediately, I put on my investigative hat and set out to try and find out mo.re. The re
  • Events By Amadeus in Coventry Transport Museum win

    Events By Amadeus in Coventry Transport Museum win
    Events By Amadeus has been awarded a three-year contract with Coventry Transport Museum.
    The deal will see the events caterer, which is part of national catering firm Amadeus, delivering a food and beverage offering to a wide range of events at the transport museum, including breakfast clubs, drinks receptions, corporate hospitality, and Christmas parties.
    Events By Amadeus’ menus boasts an array of creative catering options for event organisers to ensure memorable food experiences for 50
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  • G4S placing greater emphasis on social recruitment

    G4S placing greater emphasis on social recruitment
    G4S Secure Solutions (UK) has become a founder member of the Social Recruitment Advocacy Group, which places greater emphasis on the recruitment of people who are disadvantaged in the labour market.
    Social recruitment is an approach to hiring that positively impacts every part of society and the economy by moving unemployed people, who are furthest away from the labour market, into sustainable jobs. These disadvantaged groups include people from within BAME communities, young people ‘
  • NEC Group cuts carbon emissions by 222 tonnes per annum

    NEC Group cuts carbon emissions by 222 tonnes per annum
    The live events company has announced ground-breaking environmental achievement of carbon savings through improved waste management practices
    Working in partnership with international facilities service specialist OCS Group and sustainable waste management company Biffa, the NEC Group has reduced its carbon emissions by nearly 222 tonnes per year, the equivalent of 3,670 tree saplings breathing for the next 10 years.
    These carbon savings also equate to the carbon emissions from charging 27m mobi
  • Glastonbury Festival ranked best for toilet access

    Glastonbury has been awarded top festival ranking for washroom access by trailer manufacturer Diamond Trailers.The company based its findings on the Let Loos metric, which estimates that festival venues need to offer at least one toilet per 75 women plus one cubicle per 400 men and one urinal per 100 men.Study authors calculated that Glastonbury would need 2,742 toilets and urinals to adequately serve its 210,000 capacity. And since the venue claims to have installed around 5,000 toilets for thi

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