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Student housing supply remains tight

Less than a fifth of London’s 268,000 full-time students are able to obtain purpose-built bedspaces, a report shows. Meanwhile, the pressure on student housing appears to be ...

Datacentre gets hot water into Helsinki

Heated water resulting from cooling a datacentre in Helsinki is being used to help provide heat for up to 1,000 local flats. Finnish IT company Academica installed the 2MW da...

New BHA chief urges for new thinking

Ufi Ibrahim, the new chief executive of the British Hospitality Association has called for new thinking and fresh action under the new government. Formerly on the World Trave...

Council scraps virtual town hall

Tameside Council has abandoned a virtual council office that it had created online, after admitting that it couldn’t justify the £36,000 costs. The council ‘rented’ an island...

Government urges FMs to cut carbon costs

The government has urged facilities management companies to work with departments to cut carbon emissions by 10 per cent. Following the prime minister’s pledge in May to cut ...

Health Protection Agency fined for E.coli slipup

The Health Protection Agency has been fined £25,000 plus £20,000 in costs for exposing several employees to the risk of infection of E. coli bacteria. The HPA provides suppor...

Tories axe shameful school rebuilding work

With harsh words including ‘shameful’ and ‘tragic’, Conservative Education Secretary Michael Gove scrapped 715 school projects under Labour’s flagship Building Schools for the...

Proposed partnering standard needs FM input

FMs should add their voice to a consultation on a proposed British Standard on partnering to ensure it considers the face-to-face aspect of facilities management. The BS 1100...

Sellafield staff locked in during Cumbria shootings

Staff at Sellafield were locked in to the site yesterday following a series of shootings in Cumbria. Staff were advised to stay at home, while those already on site were lo...

PFI hospitals are cleaner, KPMG report states

Hospitals built under the Private Finance Initiative have been graded as cleaner than more conventionally procured hospitals, built at a similar time. This was the finding fro...