Facility management is the part of the business that has always been under pressure to ‘do more for less’ and to deliver the magic 10% cost savings that the core business demands of it.As businesses start the slow road to recovery and begin to emerge from the pandemic and enforced lockdowns, facility management and its associated costs will again be under the microscope.Traditionally, these cost savings have come from market testing, outsourcing, re-tendering, re-scoping, head count reduction and other areas of efficiencies that have by ..

15-02-2026

Facilities management (FM) has come a long way, especially in the last decade. The amalgamation of newer practices and cutting-edge technologies have equipped facilities managers with improved approaches towards maintaining and managing buildings and related facilities. The recent times have seen an upsurge of Building Information Modelling (BIM) in the area of FM. BIM leveraged 3D computing and modelling in order to create a coherent and comprehensive information centre for a building.While BIM should be gaining traction within the facilities management arena, it is still ..

15-02-2026

Large universities, schools and colleges have joined Water Plus in the last year through the University of Essex Utility Supply and Energy Management Solutions framework and the Surrey County Council Water Supply and Services framework. Managed by Dukefield Energy, these frameworks total £440 million. And projects to boost efficiencies, reduce operational risks and accelerate decarbonisation are underway. ..

15-02-2026