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• Better Green Living booked for soft refurb deal in Birmingham

  07-07-2026 09:02 via fmj.co.uk
  
  Sustainable refurbishment specialist, Better Green Living, has been appointed to refurbish Edgbaston Park Hotel and Conference Centre in Birmingham. Owned by the University of Birmingham, the hotel will benefit from a soft refurbishment to enhance its facilities.
  The project will involve the refurbishment of 12 bedrooms, five bathrooms, a staircase and meeting rooms across the venue. The works also include moving and creating a new reception desk and building a new luggage room. The company will
  
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• Summit Hygiene launches Ozoklenz Eco 3 – a next generation chemical-free handheld cleaning innovation

  07-07-2026 12:53 via chtmag.com
  
  Bedfordshire-based supplier of commercial cleaning and hygiene products, Summit Hygiene Ltd, has launched Ozoklenz Eco 3 – a handheld device that produces a chemical-free anti-bacterial solution using just tap water.
  The innovative Ozoklenz Eco 3 is the newest addition to Summit Hygiene’s Ozoklenz range and is the next generation model of the Enozo Pro. The rechargeable handheld device features a smaller, lightweight body with an easy to fill water reservoir. This eco-friendly device
  
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• Tarem Services expands cleaning services across CBRE and Zurich portfolio

  07-07-2026 12:42 via chtmag.com
  
  Tarem Services Limited has expanded its national cleaning services across the CBRE and Zurich portfolio to 13 locations throughout the United Kingdom and Ireland, further strengthening its position as a trusted national provider.
  The expansion reflects the continued confidence placed in Tarem Services by CBRE and Zurich, and underlines the company’s growing reputation for combining high-quality service delivery with meaningful social impact.
  Titus Komolafe, Managing Director of Tarem Servi
  
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• Social enterprise cleaning firm expands national cleaning services across CBRE and Zurich portfolio

  07-07-2026 12:33 via fmj.co.uk
  
  Tarem Services Limited has expanded its national cleaning services across the CBRE and Zurich portfolio to 13 locations throughout the UK and Ireland.
  According to the social enterprise cleaning company, the expansion, reflects the continued confidence placed in Tarem Services by CBRE and Zurich, and underlines its growing reputation for combining high-quality service delivery with meaningful social impact.
  Titus Komolafe, Managing Director of Tarem Services, said: “We are grateful for the
  
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• Nature moves in for National plants@work Week with ‘The Green Journey’

  07-07-2026 11:59 via fmj.co.uk
  
  This July, the traditional office environment is getting a much-needed breath of fresh air. From 6-10 July 2026, the plants@work association is launching its flagship initiative ‘The Green Journey’ for National plants@work Week.
  Designed to shatter the monotony of the standard workspace, ‘The Green Journey’ is a unique, mobile installation that brings the restorative power of nature directly to the doorsteps of business parks across the country. By converting a large
  
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• CIBSE publishes updated CIBSE TM59 Overheating risk in dwellings guide

  07-07-2026 10:14 via fmj.co.uk
  
  CIBSE in collaboration with Arup, Loughborough University and Inkling has launched the updated CIBSE TM59 Overheating risk in dwellings: A design stage methodology, providing the industry with revised guidance for assessing and mitigating overheating risk in new homes and major residential refurbishments.
  Referenced within Part O of the Building Regulations, CIBSE TM59 is widely recognised as a key industry resource for evaluating overheating risk in residential buildings. The updated publicatio
  
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• 10-year extension for Levy at Goodwood

  07-07-2026 09:52 via fmj.co.uk
  
  Levy has extended its catering and hospitality partnership with Goodwood for a further 10 years.
  The Goodwood Estate is celebrated globally for the sheer diversity and scale of its annual events portfolio. Welcoming over one million visitors each year, the scale of the food and beverage operation managed by Levy across the Goodwood event season is immense, spanning public concessions, premium enclosures, and high-volume fine dining.
  At Festival of Speed, the team welcomes 60,000 visitors per day
  
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• Kärcher and STIHL launch groundbreaking battery alliance

  07-07-2026 09:30 via cleaningmag.com
  Alfred Kärcher SE & Co. KG and ANDREAS STIHL AG & Co. KG have announced the launch of their joint battery alliance. The aim of this strategic partnership is to offer professional users a common, high-performance and future-proof battery standard. At the heart of the alliance is the ALLPRO battery system developed by STIHL, which will be used in the professional equipment of both brands in future.
  
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• Serco secures long-term deals across six leisure centres

  07-07-2026 09:25 via fmj.co.uk
  
  Serco Leisure, in partnership with Leisure Solutions Community Trust (LSCT), has been appointed as the new operator of six venues across Tunbridge Wells and Charnwood.
  The appointment of Serco Leisure and LSCT follows the previous operator of the facilities, Fusion Leisure, entering into administration and has been designed to ensure continuity of service and safeguard jobs.
  On behalf of Tunbridge Wells Borough Council, Serco Leisure and LSCT have taken on the management of three leisure facilit
  
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• GPA achieves a world-first in providing ‘exceptional workplace experiences’

  06-07-2026 14:04 via fmj.co.uk
  
  The Government Property Agency’s (GPA) Birmingham hub has become the first public sector building in the world to retain a coveted quality mark.
  Its flagship site at 23 Stephenson Street has secured Leesman+ accreditation – a prestigious global workplace experience rating – for the second time, demonstrating a sustained commitment to delivering an exceptional workplace experience for civil servants.
  Leesman+ is a globally recognised certification awarded to top-tier workplaces
  
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• Deborah Rowland Scholarship deadline extended to 10 July

  06-07-2026 12:06 via cleaningmag.com
  
  Applications for the 2026 Deborah Rowland Scholarship will now remain open until Friday 10 July 2026, giving prospective candidates additional time to put forward strong applications for the fully funded programme.
  
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• Historic Whitby Abbey facilities benefit from lift modernisation

  06-07-2026 11:51 via fmj.co.uk
  
  One of England’s most famous historic monasteries, Grade I Whitby Abbey, has invested in a lift modernisation by Stannah to offer reliable step-free access to visitors.
  Originally founded in AD 657 and occupied by the Anglian community, Whitby Abbey was later rebuilt as a Benedictine monastery. Today, the 7th-century ruins remain a popular heritage landmark in North Yorkshire, now housing an award-winning visitor centre repurposed from a 17th-century banqueting hall.
  Whitby Abbey House Vis
  
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• Ranger Fire and Security acquires two new businesses

  06-07-2026 10:40 via fmj.co.uk
  
  Ranger Fire and Security has acquired two new fire and security business in both the South and North West of England.
  The announcement comes after the recent majority investment from Inflexion, enabling Ranger to step up its acquisition strategy across the UK and Ireland.
  The first of Ranger’s new acquisitions, CIA Fire and Security Ltd is based in Cirencester, Gloucestershire, serving customers across the South as well as on a national level. CIA Fire and Security was founded in 1982, and
  
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• Sodexo and Mitie back national workplace volunteering effort

  06-07-2026 10:10 via fmj.co.uk
  
  An initiative that aims to double the impact of employee volunteering has gained support from several major employers.
  Organisations including the Berkeley Foundation, Browne Jacobson, Centrica, Coventry Building Society, Mitie and Sodexo Stop Hunger Foundation have pledged to expand their employee volunteering efforts, as signatories of the 100 Million Hour Movement.
  The campaign, spearheaded by volunteering charity, Royal Voluntary Service, seeks to unlock 100 million hours of employee volunt
  
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• Q3 has shopping centre deal in the bag

  06-07-2026 09:49 via fmj.co.uk
  
  Q3 Services has won a new five-year contract, commencing in August, with The Square, Camberley’s leading retail shopping centre, following four years of successfully delivering cleaning and security services at the site.
  Home to around 140 national and independent retailers, The Square spans 550,000 sq ft in the heart of Camberley town centre, which is benefiting from an ongoing regeneration programme through to 2034.
  The new contract will support a soft services manager, a team of 11 clea
  
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• How a congregation found its true home

  06-07-2026 09:30 via fmj.co.uk
  
  When the True Jesus Church transformed a long-empty office building near Newcastle into a 25,000 sq ft national HQ and local church, their clear vision was to create lasting spaces for the next 30 years and more. The project challenged budgets, timelines and logistics, and revealed how crucial getting the furniture right would be.
  A growing congregation
  The True Jesus Church has been part of the Newcastle community for decades. With around 800 members, its Newcastle Church congregation at Shield
  
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• Decarbonisation starts with the building fabric

  03-07-2026 13:19 via fmj.co.uk
  
  A Salix-funded roof refurbishment at the Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM) in Manchester, completed across two phases with the campus fully operational throughout, is delivering approximately 300,000 kWh of annual gas savings and potential cost reductions of up to £22,000 a year. Garland UK was appointed as the technical roofing partner for the project, working alongside Dr John Hindley of Twelvetrees Consulting, Ian Palmer Architects, and the RNCM estates team to significantly improv
  
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• The sofa is winning. Here’s how the office fights back.

  03-07-2026 12:56 via fmj.co.uk
  
  What cultural and sporting moments reveal about the future of work
  By Jade Boggust, Managing Director, Corporate Services, Sodexo UK & Ireland
  Every major tournament exposes the same uncomfortable truth: people will travel, queue and rearrange their entire week for an experience worth having. The modern office, more often than not, doesn’t make that list.
  Hybrid working didn’t just change where people work, it changed what they’re comparing the office to. The competitor for
  
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• IFMA names 2026-27 Global Board of Directors

  03-07-2026 11:33 via fmj.co.uk
  
  The International Facility Management Association (IFMA) has announced the member-elected executive committee and appointees to the global board of directors for the 2026-27 fiscal year (1 July 2026 – 30 June 2027).
  Luis R. Viña (pictured right) begins his term as Board Chair with immediate effect. He is joined by First Vice Chair Wayne Whitzell, CFM, FMP, SFP, LEED®AP, BEP, GBO, IFMA Fellow and Second Vice Chair Nick Heibein, MCR, FMP, SFP. Members of the executive committee s
  
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• Churchill Group welcomes Principle into its group of specialist businesses

  03-07-2026 10:49 via cleaningmag.com
  
  Churchill Group has welcomed Principle into its group of businesses. With more than 37 years of experience, a strong reputation and deep expertise across London’s landmark buildings, Principle and Churchill’s Portfolio business will merge. This will see the Principle brand continue to operate under its well-recognised identity, with Churchill’s Portfolio brand transitioning into it over the coming months.
  
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• Stannah streamlines lift offering

  03-07-2026 10:28 via fmj.co.uk
  
  Stannah Lifts Distribution & Service has introduced a new structure designed to deliver a simpler, more seamless experience for customers across its full lift portfolio.
  The £100 million division, with over 150 years of expertise and a 6th generation family‑owned lift company, has brought its passenger lifts, platform lifts, and service and goods lifts together into a single unified New Lifts division, bringing together engineering expertise across multiple lift types within a si
  
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• Gleeds awarded place on Government Commercial Agency framework

  03-07-2026 10:05 via fmj.co.uk
  
  International property and construction consultancy Gleeds has been named as a supplier on the £3.5 billion Construction Professional Services 2 (CPS2) framework by Government Commercial Agency (GCA – formerly Crown Commercial Service).
  The four-year framework, which replaces the previous RM6165 agreement, will run until February 2030 and will provide central government departments and all other UK public sector bodies with access to technical advisory services for the full lifecycle
  
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• New bursary seeks to remove barriers into health & safety careers

  03-07-2026 09:40 via fmj.co.uk
  
  The future of workplace safety depends on attracting the next generation of capable professionals. Yet while organisations across the UK continue to seek competent health and safety professionals to manage increasingly complex workplace risks, many aspiring professionals still face a significant barrier to entering the profession: the cost of recognised qualifications.
  To help address that challenge, Phoenix Health & Safety has launched the Future Safety Leaders Bursary, an annual initiative
  
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• Heat pumps create cool retreat for Chester Zoo’s snow leopards

  02-07-2026 15:37 via fmj.co.uk
  
  Mitsubishi Electric air-to-air heat pumps are now providing cooling to the critically endangered snow leopards at Chester Zoo, supporting their comfort while also helping the zoo reduce energy use across its estate.
  The project forms part of Chester Zoo’s wider partnership with Mitsubishi Electric to reduce carbon emissions across the 128-acre site, which has committed to becoming net zero in scope one and two emissions by 2030.
  Native to cold, mountainous regions of Central and South Asia
  
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• Profit or People? New book launching worldwide says leaders are asking the wrong question

  02-07-2026 15:07 via fmj.co.uk
  
  Leadership shapes lives, businesses, and communities. Yet too often, leaders are pulled in two directions – chasing profit at the expense of their people, or championing their people without a viable and sustainable way to pay for it. A new book sets out to end that false choice. The Human-Centric Leader, by Simone Fenton-Jarvis and Louisa Clarke, was available globally as of 30th June 2026 and published by LID Publishing. Written for a moment of rising disengagement, constant change, and
  
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• Jangro network raises £105,000 for Trussell to help tackle hunger and hardship across the UK 

  02-07-2026 13:15 via chtmag.com
  
  Bolton-headquartered Jangro, the UK’s and Europe’s largest network of independent janitorial distributors, has announced that its members and supplier partners raised more than £105,000 during 2025 for its charity partner, Trussell, helping provide emergency food and practical advice to people facing hardship across the UK.
  The fundraising total was achieved through the collective efforts of Jangro’s nationwide network. The significant
  
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• TSA Sustainability Summit showcases practical steps to decarbonise UK laundries

  02-07-2026 13:00 via chtmag.com
  
  The Textile Services Association’s (TSA) Sustainability Summit brought together over 70 of its members to explore practical solutions for reducing the environmental impact of the UK’s commercial laundry sector. With thought-leaders, innovators and policy partners, its programme combined keynote analysis with member case studies. It also explored how new technologies from other industries could help drive sustainability further. Tying this all together was the importance of both colla
  
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• Marble Arch BID selects Anchor Group Services to lead its Street Team

  02-07-2026 12:44 via fmj.co.uk
  
  Integrated facilities services provider, Anchor Group Services, has been appointed as the new delivery partner for Marble Arch London BID’s frontline Street Team service.
  Following more than 10 years of grassroots support to high street businesses and the wider community, the Marble Arch Street Team is now the go-to resource for BID members across the BID area, from Park Lane and Oxford Street in the south to Paddington Green in the north.
  Launched in 1987 by former Merseyside Police offic
  
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• The GPA updates Government Workplace Design Guide

  02-07-2026 12:14 via fmj.co.uk
  
  New guidelines have been published by the Government Property Agency (GPA) as it continues its mission to create a smaller, better and greener office estate.
  Today (2 July) the GPA launched its updated Government Workplace Design Guide, which outlines improved design standards for government offices. The document introduces the Core Design Requirements (CDR) framework and provides a consistent approach for delivering inclusive, accessible, modern, sustainable and digitally-enabled work spaces.
  
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• New research from Mitie shows UK organisations unprepared for rising water risk and regulation

  02-07-2026 11:42 via fmj.co.uk
  
  Water risk is rising up the business agenda as two-thirds of organisations face disruption, with many unprepared for the oncoming wave of regulation.
  New research from Mitie reveals senior leaders at more than half of organisations (53 per cent) consider water a significant risk to their business. Rising water costs (50 per cent), leakage (47 per cent) and operational disruption (31 per cent) emerged as the greatest concerns. With over two in five organisations (42 per cent) worried about water-
  
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