Cleaning Industry news

• AI on the map

  05-09-2025 16:54 via fmj.co.uk
  The public owns a huge portfolio of legacy assets. Tom Jennings, BRE’s research lead for the Innovate UK BuildAudIt project, outlines how AI is transforming the way these large asset portfolios are mapped
  There is increasing recognition that AI should be used to boost worker capacity for strategic tasks and decisions, freeing up time from manual tasks like data collection which are otherwise prone to human error.
  Facilities mapping can free up significant resources and help FMs make the ri
  
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• Facilities & Estates Management Live: Navigating Excellence

  05-09-2025 16:00 via fmj.co.uk
  Curated by the team behind FMJ, Facilities & Estates Management Live, takes place on the 7-8th of October at the Business Design Centre in London
  The inaugural Facilities & Estates Management Live is unique to other shows in the industry in being focused solely on Facilities and Estates Management. This means it will be closely tailored to what FMs want to see, do and learn, with insightful seminar sessions and products and services that are most relevant to FMs.
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• Bellrock launches new digital universe 

  05-09-2025 14:37 via fmj.co.uk
  Intelligent property services company, Bellrock, says it has entered a new era with a bold vision to redefine how customers connect with and experience estates management.
  Bellrock has unveiled a next-generation digital platform developed in partnership with digital agency Kyan. More than a website, Bellrock states it’s the entry point to the company’s digital universe, a connected, interactive environment that unites services, insights and product brands under one seamless customer
  
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• Survey finds only 1 in 5 washrooms meet hygiene cleanliness expectations in the UK

  05-09-2025 11:57 via fmj.co.uk
  Tork, an Essity brand and a global leader in professional hygiene, has revealed the findings of a global Insight Survey of end users and cleaning staff that explored attitudes toward hygiene in washrooms.Significant societal shifts have taken place with regards to awareness and accommodation of individual physical circumstances and conditions in washrooms in public spaces and the workplace. Changing places are more commonly seen in shopping centres and disabled toilet cubicles are incorporated i
  
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• Action Sustainability recognised as an Approved EcoVadis Training Partner

  05-09-2025 11:07 via fmj.co.uk
  Action Sustainability has been officially recognised as an Approved Training Partner by EcoVadis, the global leader in business sustainability ratings.
  Through this partnership, Action Sustainability will support businesses and suppliers in navigating the EcoVadis sustainability assessment process – helping them understand their performance and implement meaningful improvements across environment, labour and human rights, ethics, and sustainable procurement.
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• Free innovation tool to help identify sustainable solutions for commercial retrofit projects launches

  05-09-2025 10:38 via fmj.co.uk
  A free commercial retrofit solutions tool designed to ‘deliver meaningful sustainability’ has launched.
  The Commercial Retrofit Innovation Map, launched for use by industry as part of an initiative between UK Green Building Council (UKGBC), Breakthrough Energy and Fore Partnership, seeks to drive innovation in the built environment. The tool signposts users to more than 500 solutions for commercial retrofit – helping architects, developers and engineers identify proven solution
  
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• CIC unveils Corporate Plan for 2025–2030

  05-09-2025 10:08 via fmj.co.uk
  The Construction Industry Council’s (CIC) new Corporate Plan for 2025–2030 reflects CIC’s ambition to be the unified voice for construction professionals, shaping a resilient and future-ready industry.
  The five-year plan outlines CIC’s commitment to leading change across four strategic pillars: Agility, Influencing and Advocacy, Collaboration on Key Policy Areas, and Effective Consultation and Communication. These priorities, says the CIC reflect its role as a unifying vo
  
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• Warehouse. & Yard. Multimodal, and E-Delivery join forces to create the UK’s ultimate logistics event at the NEC

  05-09-2025 09:50 via fmj.co.uk
  In a move set to transform the UK logistics and supply chain exhibition landscape, Warehouse. (formerly IWLEX) and Yard. (formerly YARDX) will, for the first time, co-locate (in adjacent halls with internal walkthrough) with Multimodal — including the E-Delivery Expo — at the NEC Birmingham in 2026.
  This strategic collaboration marks the creation of the UK’s most comprehensive end-to-end supply chain logistics showcase and establishes the destination exhibition for the entire U
  
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• New York subway cleaners claw back millions in back pay

  05-09-2025 01:00
  Around 450 immigrant workers who were hired to disinfect New York City's subway trains at the height of the Covid pandemic have just been awarded more than $3 million in back pay.The workers are claimed to have been underpaid by around $14 dollars per hour and were not provided with respirators or uniforms.During the pandemic the New York City Transit Authority entered into contracts with private cleaning companies to carry out the deep cleaning and disinfection of underground train carriages wi
  
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