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Balfour Beatty has completed refurbishment projects worth a total of £1 million at two schools in the London Borough of Islington. Part of the Building Schools for the Future programme, the projects were carried out by the construction company to meet requirements to bring educational facilities up to the latest quality, usability and sustainable standards. At Canonbury School, Balfour Beatty was appointed to remove and replace the building’s ageing timber windows, before making repairs to…

The British Institute of Facilities Management’s’ (BIFM) reigning ‘Facilities Manager of the Year’, Deborah Rowland, has officially been presented with her ‘Platinum Award of Excellence in FM’ after her success in the 2014 Global FM Awards. The annual Awards from Global FM recognise and reflect the ‘best-of-the-best’ in facilities management (FM) from across the globe, as entrants only consist of award finalists from Global FM members. On World FM Day (4 June 2014) it was…

Despite risk of loss or misuse, over 40% store confidential documents on site The biggest threat to public sector data comes from employees, a new PHS Data Solutions survey has shown. 83% of the 141 senior public sector managers and other staff polled by Ingenium said they were most concerned about internal loss or misuse, with just 10% worried about the external threat posed by hackers. Despite this, only 18% use a secure managed offsite…