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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…

The Environment Agency (EA) was the proud winner of ‘the ‘Sustainable Business of the Year Award’ at the Environment and Energy Awards 2014 recently. Judges awarded the accolade to the organisation for its highly ‘integrated and engaging’ approach to sustainability. One of the Environment Agency’s key success factors has been the continued maintenance and development of its ISO 14001 certified environmental management system. Since 2003, its 14001 system has been utilised to incorporate, monitor, review…

Mitie, the FTSE 250 strategic outsourcing company, has been awarded a property management contract with the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames to manage its Better Homes programme, an initiative to bring all Council owned housing up to the ‘better homes’ standard. The contract is worth up to £7m in the first year, extendable by performance by a further year with a total value of £15m. Mitie will work with the Royal Borough of Kingston…