Elior at Work wins 5-year, ~£4M catering and hospitality contract at Paisley Town Hall — bars, weddings, conferences, civic events under one operator CIBSE's £1.2M Manly Trust donation funds Skills Hub at redeveloped London HQ — largest single gift in CIBSE's 129-year history Johnson Controls Q2 sales +8% on data-centre cooling — new chillers, entry into CDUs, and remote-monitoring services expand the FM-adjacent stack UKHospitality's Kate Nicholls at Savoy Lecture: hospitality being "taxed out of existence" — Government policy is hollowing out the UK's most socially productive sector Hantavirus debate reignited by Atlantic cruise-ship case — but WHO's working hypothesis is pre-boarding infection, not HVAC spread EU Detergent Regulation 2026/405: AFIDAMP webinar walks the cleaning sector through definitions, digital product passport and timelines BCO Midlands Awards: Three Chamberlain Square sweeps Commercial + ESG, BREEAM Outstanding and NABERS 5* firsts for the West Midlands RFM wins £10M five-year IFM contract at Queen Margaret University via Crown Commercial Framework VTS Office Demand Index hits post-pandemic high of 79 — tech +109%, finance +54%, legal +41% YoY Amazon signs multi-year deal with Transaera — desiccant DOAS using MOFs cuts cooling energy up to 40% Vending Sense × Pareto FM publish 'A Refreshing Take on AI' white paper for the FM "messy middle" Fraunhofer's laser-etched solar tile — ~95% efficient PV that looks like masonry, inspired by Morpho butterflies Elior at Work wins 5-year, ~£4M catering and hospitality contract at Paisley Town Hall — bars, weddings, conferences, civic events under one operator CIBSE's £1.2M Manly Trust donation funds Skills Hub at redeveloped London HQ — largest single gift in CIBSE's 129-year history Johnson Controls Q2 sales +8% on data-centre cooling — new chillers, entry into CDUs, and remote-monitoring services expand the FM-adjacent stack UKHospitality's Kate Nicholls at Savoy Lecture: hospitality being "taxed out of existence" — Government policy is hollowing out the UK's most socially productive sector Hantavirus debate reignited by Atlantic cruise-ship case — but WHO's working hypothesis is pre-boarding infection, not HVAC spread EU Detergent Regulation 2026/405: AFIDAMP webinar walks the cleaning sector through definitions, digital product passport and timelines BCO Midlands Awards: Three Chamberlain Square sweeps Commercial + ESG, BREEAM Outstanding and NABERS 5* firsts for the West Midlands RFM wins £10M five-year IFM contract at Queen Margaret University via Crown Commercial Framework VTS Office Demand Index hits post-pandemic high of 79 — tech +109%, finance +54%, legal +41% YoY Amazon signs multi-year deal with Transaera — desiccant DOAS using MOFs cuts cooling energy up to 40% Vending Sense × Pareto FM publish 'A Refreshing Take on AI' white paper for the FM "messy middle" Fraunhofer's laser-etched solar tile — ~95% efficient PV that looks like masonry, inspired by Morpho butterflies
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Elior at Work wins 5-year, ~£4M catering and hospitality contract at Paisley Town Hall — bars, weddings, conferences, civic events under one operator

Elior at Work (the regional B&I brand of Elior UK) has secured a five-year catering and hospitality contract at the newly refurbished Paisley Town Hall in Scotland, worth approximately £4M. The scope is broader than standard B&I — bars, hospi...

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Johnson Controls Q2 sales +8% on data-centre cooling — new chillers, entry into CDUs, and remote-monitoring services expand the FM-adjacent stack Market

Johnson Controls Q2 sales +8% on data-centre cooling — new chillers, entry into CDUs, and remote-monitoring services expand the FM-adjacent stack

Johnson Controls' Q2 sales rose 8%, with CEO Joakim Weidemanis attributing the growth to data-centre thermal demand. The company is launching new chiller models for the segment and entering the CDU (coolant distribution unit) market — direct-to-chip and rear-door heat-exchanger plumbing that sits between rack and chiller. JCI is also leveraging remote monitoring to grow it...

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VTS Office Demand Index hits post-pandemic high of 79 — tech +109%, finance +54%, legal +41% YoY Workplace

VTS Office Demand Index hits post-pandemic high of 79 — tech +109%, finance +54%, legal +41% YoY

The VTS Office Demand Index (VODI) reached a post-pandemic record of 79 at end of Q1 2026 — +18% quarter-over-quarter and +13% year-over-year. Technology firm demand rose 109% YoY; finance gained 54% QoQ, legal 41% QoQ. The growth comes even as office-using employment fell 0.5% YoY (-183,000 jobs). VTS attributes the divergence to slower hiring giving employers more leverage to...

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Amazon signs multi-year deal with Transaera — desiccant DOAS using MOFs cuts cooling energy up to 40% Building Management

Amazon signs multi-year deal with Transaera — desiccant DOAS using MOFs cuts cooling energy up to 40%

Amazon has signed a multi-year commercial agreement with Transaera to deploy desiccant-based cooling and dehumidification across its global logistics estate. Transaera's dedicated outdoor air system (DOAS) uses metal organic framework (MOF) materials to remove moisture before cooling — claimed energy savings of up to 40% vs conventional rooftop direct-expansion systems. Th...

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Fraunhofer's laser-etched solar tile — ~95% efficient PV that looks like masonry, inspired by Morpho butterflies Building Management

Fraunhofer's laser-etched solar tile — ~95% efficient PV that looks like masonry, inspired by Morpho butterflies

Researchers at Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE) in Freiburg have developed a light-sensitive film that can be applied to photovoltaic modules and laser-etched to mimic tile, masonry and other building materials. The colour is created by 3D photonic structures rather than pigments — the same physical principle as Morpho butterflies. Adding the film costs only ...

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200 kW per rack, 1 MW coming — Trane's Atalla on cooling as data-centre system management Market

200 kW per rack, 1 MW coming — Trane's Atalla on cooling as data-centre system management

Trane Technologies' SVP and CTO Mauro Atalla told Facilities Dive that single server racks now generate up to 200 kW of thermal load, with some at 600 kW and 1 MW racks coming — to the point where thermal management is inseparable from data-centre system management. Trane is working with NVIDIA on gigawatt-scale reference designs (Omniverse DSX Blueprint) that integrate ch...

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Physical-security budgets up 50% — and 27% of organisations now put CISOs in charge: EY Security

Physical-security budgets up 50% — and 27% of organisations now put CISOs in charge: EY

EY's Forensic & Integrity Pulse — 250 executives surveyed in March — finds almost 80% of organisations increased physical-security budgets in their last cycle, some by as much as 50%. The catch: 27% put the CISO in charge of both physical security and cybersecurity, and 90% of boards have stepped up their oversight. But only 46% of organisations pressure-test sabotage ...

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US schools spend $4B/year hardening security — but evidence the spend works is thin, says LPI's DePaoli Security

US schools spend $4B/year hardening security — but evidence the spend works is thin, says LPI's DePaoli

School spending on physical security hardening is now a $4-billion-a-year market in the US, but Jennifer DePaoli of the Learning Policy Institute argues the evidence base for safer outcomes is thin. Singlewire's survey of 500 staff finds 46% of schools report insufficient security personnel — up from 30% last year. DePaoli cites cases where surveillance flagged a clarinet ...

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Kroger to pay $2.5M fine, spend $100M retrofitting 600 fridges over Clean Air Act refrigerant leaks Market

Kroger to pay $2.5M fine, spend $100M retrofitting 600 fridges over Clean Air Act refrigerant leaks

Grocery giant Kroger has agreed to pay a $2.5M civil penalty and spend $100M over two years to retrofit or replace 600 refrigeration units to settle a US Department of Justice action over ozone-depleting refrigerant leaks. EPA found Kroger failed to meet retrofit/replacement requirements on 14 commercial and 2 industrial refrigeration units under the pre-2019 35% leakage thresh...

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Stress is now a legal risk for FM — HSE's Working Minds + Mental Health UK frame the brief Workplace

Stress is now a legal risk for FM — HSE's Working Minds + Mental Health UK frame the brief

Mental Health UK's Burnout Report finds 91% of UK workers report high or extreme stress, with one in five having taken time off in the past year. HSE estimates 964,000 UK workers suffered work-related stress, depression or anxiety in 2024/25 — 22.1 million lost working days. The University of Birmingham was found in breach of the Management of Health & Safety at Work R...

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Thrive Buildings × CPower bring demand response to life-sciences labs — capacity costs up 262% YoY make the maths work Building Management

Thrive Buildings × CPower bring demand response to life-sciences labs — capacity costs up 262% YoY make the maths work

Energy management firm Thrive Buildings and virtual power plant operator CPower have launched a partnership to make demand response viable for life-sciences labs and cleanrooms — facilities whose strict operating requirements have historically excluded them from DR programmes. Thrive contributes "a turnkey, data-driven approach" using demand control ventilation and fa...

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