Cleaning Industry news

• Service Works Global strengthens senior leadership team

  11-06-2024 14:32 via fmj.co.uk
  
  FM software provider, Service Works Global (SWG), has appointed Nigel Robinson as its new UK General Manager.
  Robinson’s core responsibilities will include leading the UK management team, developing strategic plans, KPIs, and budgets, and supporting revenue targets set by the Executive Team. He will also work with SWG’s other global managers to improve international systems and operations.
  His promotion to UK General Manager follows the appointment of Mats Broman as CEO at the start
  
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• Reconomy reports ‘excellent’ sustainability and commercial progress in 2023

  11-06-2024 13:09 via fmj.co.uk
  
  Reconomy’s 2023 Annual Sustainability Report, which is aligned with the internationally recognised Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Standards and Taskforce for Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), shows major sustainability and commercial milestones have been achieved by the international circular economy specialist.
  Reconomy’s latest sustainability benchmarks have been set and the company has received approval from the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) for its climat
  
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• Cundall boosts workplace sector leadership with new hire

  11-06-2024 12:14 via fmj.co.uk
  
  Global, multi-disciplinary engineering consultancy, Cundall, has appointed Frances Brown as newest Partner and London workplace sector lead.
  Brown, who brings significant experience delivering workplace projects, joins the practice following 17 years at Hoare Lea, where she led the London workplace sector team and specialised in the design of exceptional workplaces that integrated sustainable design. As a member of the British Council for Offices (BCO) research committee, she actively contribute
  
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• Innovations in the washroom

  11-06-2024 11:39 via fmj.co.uk
  
  Craig Bowman, General Manager (UK and Ireland), Kimberly-Clark Professional on how innovations in the washroom are creating smarter, greener, more hygienic and accessible environments for users
  Washrooms are getting more sophisticated. Changing consumer preferences – and an increasing focus on health and wellbeing – mean that smart, innovative, sustainable and accessible washroom environments are in demand.
  Facilities managers are benefiting from not only maintaining these spaces; bu
  
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• CIBSE appoints new president

  11-06-2024 11:22 via fmj.co.uk
  
  Fiona Cousins has been appointed as the new President of the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE).
  Cousins, who holds several senior roles at Arup, brings extensive experience and a deep commitment to advancing sustainability and broadening the focus on building performance in the industry.
  Cousins takes over the presidency from Adrian Catchpole, to whom she extends heartfelt thanks for his significant contributions, especially in promoting STEM Ambassadors in schools and
  
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• Scholarship launched to give next generation of workplace and facilities managers a ‘head start’

  11-06-2024 10:51 via fmj.co.uk
  
  A Scholarship backed by one of workplace and facilities management’s highest profile practitioners, who has been diagnosed with a terminal cancer, has been established.
  The Deborah Rowland Scholarship, created in collaboration with Institute of Workplace and Facilities Management (IWFM), intends to bring on the next generation of workplace and facilities management (WFM) professionals through financial and mentoring support. It aims to demolish barriers to progress and to foster future lea
  
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• EJ Peak Technology Solutions secures new framework with Yorkshire Water

  11-06-2024 10:19 via fmj.co.uk
  
  EJ Peak Technology Solutions, part of the Edwin James Group, has been appointed to Yorkshire Water’s multi-million-pound Motor Control Centres and Systems Integration framework.
  The contract, which was awarded following a competitive tender, will run for an initial period of four years with an optional four-year extension.
  Projects under the framework will include work on existing Yorkshire Water assets and the integration of new assets into the network, such as PLCs and intelligent motor
  
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• Grazing wins catering deal at Workspace’s first Eventspace

  11-06-2024 09:52 via fmj.co.uk
  
  The delivered-in office and venue catering specialist has won a three-year contract with Workspace’s first conference centre and event space in the City of London.
  Flexible space provider, Workspace, has more than 60 locations across the capital, including its latest addition ‘Eventspace’, within the newly refurbished ground floor of stately Salisbury House.
  Eventspace features a 160-person capacity main conference area, with room to host networking events, conference
  
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• Irish minister signs order to increase contract cleaning sector pay

  11-06-2024 01:00
  The Irish minister for business, employment and retail - Emer Higgins - has approved an Employment Regulation Order (ERO) for the contract cleaning sector, which provides for an increase in the minimum wage.From June 1 all workers in the industry aged 18 or over are entitled to a minimum rate of pay of €13.30 per hour, up from €12.70.The Irish Contract Cleaning Association (ICCA) was instrumental in the move. Its chair Avril McCarthy told ECJ: "The Irish Contract Cleaning Association r
  
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