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Scape Group creates 3,000 new school places with construction partners in just four years and saves Bedford Borough Council £34million Bedford now sixth best location in UK for Lower and Primary schools, according to Ofsted Headteachers report improved pupil behaviour in new learning spaces Peter Hansford, Government Chief Construction Adviser, has visited schools in Bedford to celebrate the creation of 3,000 new pupil places for Bedford Borough Council delivered through built environment specialist, Scape Group,…

Work has completed on three hangars at the new Defence College for Technical Training at MOD Lyneham in Wiltshire. The hangars have each been newly built or refurbished by Hercules – a joint venture between Kier Group and Balfour Beatty – for the Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO). The buildings, which include two extensions to existing hangars, provide workshops, stores and classrooms to cater for the Army’s Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (REME’s) training…

A new international standard for facilities management has been formally approved to proceed into development by the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) following a poll of its 159 member organisations earlier this year. ISO 41000 will be a ‘Management System Standard’ for Facilities Management and the committee meet last week in Glasgow, UK. As a strategic tool and set of guidelines, the standard will set out an accredited structure and framework as well as formal…