Day: August 29, 2017

Support services group Mitie has been informed by the Financial Conduct Authority that it will be investigated. http://www.fm-world.co.uk/news/mitie-faces-probe-by-the-fca/ News from FM World

Manned guarding business Axis Security has been awarded a further three-year contract term by MJ Mapp at Stockley Park in the London Borough of Hillingdon. http://www.fm-world.co.uk/news/axis-security-takes-new-three-year-contract-at-stockley-park/ News from FM World

Southampton City Council is close to establishing a Local Authority Trading Company (LATCo) a wholly owned trading arm that generates surplus to reinvest in services. http://www.fm-world.co.uk/news/southampton-cc-poised-to-create-new-trading-arm/ News from FM World

ABB, the Swedish-Swiss multinational technology company, has entered into a five-year contract with Apleona for the delivery of facility management services in the UK and Ireland. http://www.fm-world.co.uk/news/apleona-to-manage-tech-firm-abbs-estate-across-british-isles/ News from FM World

The independent review into building regulations and fire safety will seek to root out any potential systemic failures in existing arrangements to ensure that a tragedy like the Grenfell Tower fire could not happen again. http://www.fm-world.co.uk/news/building-regulations-review-to-learn-lessons-of-grenfell-tragedy/ News from FM World