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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…

Design and construction achieve ‘Perfect Delivery’ Robbie McKillop, public sector director at Morgan Sindall Professional Services (MSPS), the multidisciplinary design consultancy, was delighted to see the official hand over of Lairdsland Primary School on 20th May 2015 to celebrate the completion of the sustainably-built school. MSPS provided mechanical and electrical (M&E) and BREEAM services to the project, working with architects Walters & Cohen. Key to the successful delivery of the 266-pupil primary school was passive…