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G4S Integrated Services (G4S) has been awarded a contract to provide facilities management services (FM) to HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) Commercial Directorate from April 2014. The three year contract, with the possibility of an extension for a further two years, is worth £4 million (excluding capital and project works) and will involve G4S providing a range of FM services, as well as Helpdesk and CAFM (Computer Aided Facilities Management). The agreement covers three regional…

Legislative demands are driving the need for buildings in the UK to meet carbon emission targets over the next decades but there isn’t yet a clear answer on whether green buildings can command a premium, reveals new research from Bidwells. ‘Is There A Green Premium?’ which has just been published – and previewed at the recent Retrofit Conference held at Queens’ College, Cambridge – sets the scene in terms of the huge challenge retrofit will…

AUDE (the Association for Directors of Estates) have announced the appointment of Andrew Burgess as Chairman. Andrew Burgess is the Deputy Chief Operating Officer at Loughborough University with responsibility for strategic leadership and the development and management of a portfolio of the University’s non-academic Professional Services. He takes up the Chairmanship of AUDE at the 2014 April AGM and his term of office is one year. “In the latest Times Higher Education World Rankings, 10…