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CBRE IN BRITISH LIBRARY WIN
CBRE Global Workplace Solutions (GWS) has secured a four-year contract to provide facilities management services for British Library’s estate.
The contract includes the client’s sites in St Pancras, London and Boston Spa, West Yorkshire.
The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. The collection currently holds over an estimate of 150 million items including artefacts that span across nearly three thousand years ago. With around three million new items added to the collection each year, the library’s portfolio includes everything from books, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, prints and drawings, maps and manuscripts. Some of the most famous treasures includes the Magna Carta, George Handel’s Messiah and Jane Austen’s personal notebooks.
CBRE claims the British Library will sit under the Heritage business unit, which specialises in hard facilities management for listed buildings such as the British Museum, National Gallery, The Natural History Museum.
Patrick Dixon, Head of Estates and Facilities commented: “‘During the competitive tender process, we felt that CBRE demonstrated their capacity to be the custodian for the Library’s estate, and impressed us with their vision for providing facilities management services to the Library in a refreshing and innovative way. We are truly excited for this new chapter with CBRE and are confident that our partnership will see the Library benefitting from world class FM which will help to create an optimal user experience for all visitors and staff.”
VINCI CONSTRUCTION CEO STEPS DOWN
VINCI Construction UK has announced that Bruno Dupety has resigned as Chief Executive and Chairman.
Dupety has led VINCI Construction UK since late 2014 and overseen a move to a much stronger position. At the mid-point of the calendar year VINCI Construction UK is in a robust financial situation, with a strong order book for 2019 that builds on a solid performance in 2018.
Commenting, Dupety said: “With the support of the wider VINCI group, an excellent team and the commitment of our people, we managed to turn the business around.
“The company has improved a lot, in terms of delivering its services, quality, productivity, digitalisation and creating a stronger culture and embedding better decision making. The business is in a good place – as a reward of our efforts, our building division, and our facilities management division had the best year ever in 2018. Now is a good time to make a change.”
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KINGDOM EXPANDS ITS SERVICES IN SCOTLAND AFTER ACQUISITION
Kingdom Services Group has acquired Scotland-based security specialist, Dunedin Facilities Management Ltd.
Established in 2012, Dunedin delivers a range of security services including CCTV, door supervisors, security guards, mobile patrols, key holding and event security solutions.
Commenting on the acquisition, Terry Barton, Chief Executive of Kingdom said: “This is a fantastic opportunity for Kingdom to expand further in Scotland. Strategic acquisitions have always formed part of our growth strategy, but it is extremely important that when we acquire a business that there is values & culture fit to that of Kingdom. We are therefore keen that we continue to operate in the same way going forward with no planned changes to offices or points of contact.”
Iain Macintosh, Owner and Director of Dunedin will take on the role as Head of Security for Kingdom Scotland.
Macintosh commented: “Joining the Kingdom family will enable my team and I to offer a greater range of services and strength in depth and for us to expand into new sectors. The Kingdom leadership team and I share the same aspirations and I’m excited about being a key part in the journey which has been created through this acquisition.”
Established in 1993, Kingdom manages 6,000+ service personnel in highly complex public-facing environments.
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