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The best of the best in Estate Management were honoured today for their exceptional achievements in Higher Education Estate Management. The 2016 Higher Education Estates and Facilities Awards took place at the Gala dinner on the final night of the annual AUDE conference held at Exeter University. Each year the awards celebrate and highlight the achievements of universities and best practice in the industry, including those who lead the way in estate and facilities management….

Food safety across the UK will be radically improved through an innovative new development created by a Cambridge partnership and announced today. Checkit (www.checkit.net/), the leader in automated monitoring and work management solutions across food, safety and facilities management, has partnered with Cambridge City Council in a flagship initiative to develop a next generation cloud-based food safety management system, which will revolutionise food safety compliance. The system, which builds upon the Food Standards Agency’s Safer…

Alupro study into ‘real’ recycling rate for aluminium packaging in 2015 reveals over 10,000 tonnes of unreported material The national recycling rate for all aluminium packaging now stands at 55% (previously 48%) and the estimated recycling rate for aluminium drinks cans has reached 69% (from 60%), but the figures could be even higher, indicates the Aluminium Packaging Recycling Organisation (Alupro). According to packaging waste recovery data recently released by the Environment Agency the “business” recycling…