Portakabin Delivers Interim Sixth Form Centre in Just Six Weeks

Portakabin, the UK’s leading modular building specialist, has delivered an interim sixth form centre in just six weeks at a school in Cheshire after structural defects to an existing building meant alternative accommodation was urgently required. Holmes Chapel Comprehensive School needed high quality facilities to be fitted out over the school holidays and ready to use for 220 students by the start of the new term. The sixth form centre had to be completed in…

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G4S Integrated Services wins HMRC Facilities Management contract

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…

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Is There A Green Premium? Latest Bidwells’ Research Highlights The Retrofit Challenge Ahead

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…

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