Cleaning Industry news

• Compass Group UK&I adds volunteering to the menu

  07-06-2024 14:58 via fmj.co.uk
  
  Compass Group UK & Ireland employees are going “above and beyond” to volunteer in doing good.
  Continuing to deliver social value to the communities it operates in, Compass enabled a team of helpers to volunteer at Church Farm Bungalow, a residential care home providing support for people with learning and physical disabilities. Based in Chertsey, near the Compass headquarters, the day was a true demonstration of supporting the local community.
  Led by Carol Sommerville, Compass Gr
  
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• Mecsia strengthens building services expertise with acquisition

  07-06-2024 12:52 via fmj.co.uk
  
  Mecsia, a leader in compliance-driven technical inspections and maintenance, has acquired commercial and industrial building services specialist, Scott Combustion, in a strategic move which strengthens its ability to deliver a comprehensive range of building services nationwide.
  Scott Combustion, one of the oldest Corgi/Gas Safe registered companies in the UK with a registration dating back to 1983, brings a team of highly skilled engineers, managers, and support staff renowned for their experti
  
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• Fleet advantage

  07-06-2024 11:58 via fmj.co.uk
  
  James Maden, Sales and Marketing Director at Nexus explains the sustainable differences between owning and renting a vehicle fleet
  As the world continues its battle against climate change, organisations are increasingly aiming to embrace sustainability as a core value. For companies that rely on fleet as transportation, the decision between purchasing and renting vehicles can be a difficult one to make.
  But although there is no definitive argument for rental vs ownership in reducing a fleets car
  
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• Labour shortages continue for electrotechnical firms

  07-06-2024 11:31 via fmj.co.uk
  
  Electrotechnical businesses continue to be held back by slow growth, partly blamed on a shortage of adequately skilled workers, finds survey.
  The latest quarterly survey of the UK engineering services sector, backed by leading trade bodies ECA, BESA, SELECT and SNIPEF, paints a picture of an overriding issue which has been of consistent concern for the last four quarters.
  Half of all survey respondents (48 per cent) said they currently have vacancies in their organisations. Half of these (50 per
  
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• Wates’ Paul Chandler to retire

  07-06-2024 10:47 via fmj.co.uk
  
  Paul Chandler has announced he will be retiring from a full-time executive role at the end of 2024, after a distinguished 42-year career in construction.
  Chandler has been Executive Managing Director of Wates’ Construction Group since 2017 and a member of the Wates Group Board since 2018.
  Under his leadership, the Construction Group has flourished, increasing its turnover from circa £700 million in 2015 to circa £1.3 billion in 2023, delivering profitable growth year-on-year in
  
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• BCIS launches whole life costs and carbon measurement tool

  07-06-2024 10:22 via fmj.co.uk
  
  The Building Cost Information Service (BCIS) has launched a “groundbreaking” tool which measures and reports on whole life costs and whole life carbon emissions at the same time.
  Life Cycle Evaluator brings together BCIS’s extensive cost data, building on more than 60 years’ experience and detailed carbon data from the Built Environment Carbon Database (BECD).
  James Fiske, BCIS CEO and Chair of the BECD Steering Group, said: “By combining reliable and consistent cos
  
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• Sodexo extends Oasis partnership 

  07-06-2024 10:01 via fmj.co.uk
  
  Sodexo has been awarded a catering services contract at Oasis Restore, the UK’s first purpose-built Secure School.
  The food services provider has been a a trusted school meals partner of Oasis Community Learning for over 13 years, currently serving breakfast, morning break and lunch to over 28,000 students across 49 schools.
  The contract award, which marks an expansion of Sodexo’s long-standing partnership with Oasis, will see Sodexo delivering a range of balanced and nutritious meal
  
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• Introducing KleenCheck - monitoring and management software for the cleaning sector

  07-06-2024 08:30 via cleaningmag.com
  
  Orange Technology Ltd, a software solutions provider, has announced the upcoming launch of its monitoring and management software for cleaning companies and large organisations, including the NHS, in particular environments where infection prevention and control are key considerations.
  
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• Vision of a better future for cleaning operatives

  07-06-2024 01:00
  In November 2023 ECJ ran a news story highlighting the findings of a report in the UK about working conditions for cleaning operatives. The year-long investigation by the Centre for Progressive Change found that more than a third of them had worked while unwell because many of them are unable to claim sick pay. In this special report we delve deeper into the detail of the survey that took a close look at working conditions in the sector through the eyes of the operatives themselves.CLEANING UP T
  
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