Infrastructure

Mitie has won a competitive retender with Cornerstone, winning a new five-and-a-half-year contract on the nation’s largest telecoms estate.

ISS UK has won Scottish Power’s recently retendered FM contract – extending their 10-year partnership by another five years. 

Amey has been awarded the £180 million Area 12 Maintenance and Response (M&R) contract by Highways England.

Gavin Graveson, executive vice-president of UK and Ireland for Veolia, became chairman of the Environmental Services Association (ESA) at its annual general meeting on Friday (27 November).

Independent grounds maintenance provider Tivoli is contracted to carry out scheduled maintenance services for Scottish Water at more than 30 sites across Scotland this winter.

Property group Grosvenor Britain & Ireland is extending its management services to external clients in central London for the first time in 340 years.

Swindon Borough Council has awarded a £3.5 million contract to Amey Consulting to carry out engineering works on its Highways and Transport Professional Services Framework.

Freedom, an NG Bailey Group company, has secured a two-year extension on an essential Northern Powergrid framework to deliver cable engineering services across the North East, Yorkshire and northern Lincolnshire.

Apleona HSG Facility Management UK has been awarded a new contract to deliver services on behalf of the body responsible for promoting and protecting the tidal River Thames.

More than half of workplaces do not have "an actively managed health and wellbeing programme", according to Vested, a workplace savings and benefits consultancy.

NHS estates teams need to "put an end to pushing repairs down the road", according to a senior NHS estates official speaking at the Healthcare Estates conference in Manchester this week.

The BT Group has announced the first eight of the locations that will house its workplaces of the future.