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• Registration opens for the ISSA Hygieia Networking & Leadership Conference in Canada 

  05-03-2024 14:53 via chtmag.com
  
  On Thursday, 25 April 2024, join the ISSA Hygieia Network for its upcoming networking and leadership conference — Workplace Allies: The Power of Having Someone in Your Corner. This information-packed conference, which includes a networking reception, will take place from 9:00 a.m. to 6:15 p.m. at Delta Hotels Toronto Mississauga in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.
  “We’re thrilled to announce our upcoming networking and leadership conference,” said ISSA Hygieia Network Progra
  
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• learnd snaps up two leading BMS and energy solutions providers

  05-03-2024 13:31 via fmj.co.uk
  
  learnd, a leading provider of energy management solutions to reduce energy costs and carbon emissions from non-residential buildings, has acquired leading building management systems (BMS) and energy solutions firms, Ashdown Controls Limited and BGES Group.
  Ashdown Controls is one of the top three BMS and energy providers in the island of Ireland. Headquartered in Dublin, Ireland and Belfast, Northern Ireland, Ashdown Controls helps a wide range of customers reduce energy costs and carbon emissi
  
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• Built environment institutes renew joint pledge to tackle global instability

  05-03-2024 12:36 via fmj.co.uk
  
  With almost 70 per cent of the world’s population predicted to live in cities by 2050, major built environment professional institutes, including architects, planners, structural engineers and landscape practitioners, have renewed their joint pledge to collaborate to tackle urgent global challenges.
  Members of the UK Built Environment Advisory Group (UKBEAG), a group first launched in 2016 comprising the Royal Institute of British Architects(RIBA), the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI),
  
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• £700m new build housing framework reveals successful contractors

  05-03-2024 12:10 via fmj.co.uk
  
  Regional procurement specialist EN:Procure has announced the winning 27 contractors who have secured a place on its latest £700 million new build housing framework.
  The procurement arm of social housing consortium Efficiency North previously welcomed bidding across four lots of predominantly social housing new build schemes of various sizes generally in Yorkshire and the Humber, the East Midlands and the North West but could be used in other regions of England.
  The selected contractors wil
  
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• Keeping house

  05-03-2024 11:14 via fmj.co.uk
  
  The work being done by the estates team at the Environment Agency at the lock keeper houses on the River Thames is benefiting occupants and the environment. Sara Bean reports
  The Environment Agency (EA) plays a pivotal role in supporting sustainable development in the UK. It works with businesses and other organisations to manage the use of resources, helps to reduce the risk of flooding and coastal erosion, protects and improves water, land and biodiversity and supports sustainable growth.
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• Gainful experience

  05-03-2024 10:52 via fmj.co.uk
  
  Workplace Futures 2024 focused on the symbiotic relationship between people and technology, which for FMs means delivering a quality workplace experience
  The meshing of the physical and digital worlds was a theme that ran through this year’s Workplace Futures conference. Simone Fenton-Jarvis took over as an able in person chair, with longstanding chair Martin Pickard joining online with a coterie of remote delegates for the Q&A sessions.
  Katherine Harvey from Unwork began with a descri
  
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• Servo Group signs corporate partnership with leading food distribution charity

  05-03-2024 10:35 via fmj.co.uk
  
  Servo Group has forged a year long corporate partnership to support a food redistribution charity which has distributed the equivalent of 32 million meals.
  The London-based multi-service provider is planning a series of events to back The Felix Project, including volunteering stints from its staff including Divisional Director, Andy Haynes.
  The Felix Project is London’s largest food rescue charity, In 2023 it supported over 1,119 community organisations, including 170 schools across every
  
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• A trio of contract wins for Churchill Environmental

  05-03-2024 10:12 via fmj.co.uk
  
  The specialist water and environmental arm of Churchill Group, Churchill Environmental Services (CES), has secured three significant contracts in the last six months.
  The contracts, which have a combined value of a quarter of a million pounds per annum, are with the South West Ambulance Service Trust (SWAST), Aneurin Bevan University Health Board (ABUHB) and Plymouth City Council (PCC).
  The SWAST and ABUHB contracts are new, multi-year contracts. SWAST is a three-year contract and will see CES s
  
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• GPA appoints strategic partners

  05-03-2024 09:51 via fmj.co.uk
  
  Two new strategic partners have been appointed to provide professional services for the Government Property Agency’s (GPA) Capital Programmes.
  The new contracts cover, design, and specialist services for the Government Hubs and Whitehall Campus Programmes and a variety of client funded projects. The strategic partners will work collaboratively with the GPA to deliver projects that will drive economic growth throughout the UK, help transform the civil service, contribute to wider greening g
  
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• Spa awarded sustainability certification for its clean floor renewal

  05-03-2024 09:33 via fmj.co.uk
  
  Alpentherme Gastein Spa, in Austria, has been awarded sustainability certification by family-owned flooring company, Bona, in recognition of the amount of CO2 and energy saved as a result of a resilient floor renewal project.
  The challenges around the effective cleaning and maintenance of a 20-year-old linoleum floor were one of the key drivers for the Spa’s floor renewal project. The surface at the time had begun to develop hairline cracks allowing moisture and bacteria to penetrate, and
  
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• Mitie launches ‘The Science of Service Podcast: Facilities Transformation’

  05-03-2024 08:30 via cleaningmag.com
  
  Mitie has launched its new podcast series ‘The Science of Service Podcast: Facilities Transformation’.
  
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• Compensation for cleaner who refused to clean planes during the pandemic

  05-03-2024 01:00
  An Australian-based cleaner has been awarded compensation after he refused to clean aircraft during the Covid-19 pandemic.Qantas relieved Theo Seremetidis of his duties in February 2020 after the operative directed others to stop cleaning and servicing planes under the Work Health and Safety Act.Theo Seremetidis, a trained health and safety representative, gave the direction to colleagues over concerns about the spread of the virus. On the following day, the Australian government closed its bord
  
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