Industry News

This World FM Day blog shines a light on the FM professionals and service contractors behind safe, reliable and welcoming buildings. It explores how hard FM teams turn belonging into something practical, through compliant systems, responsive service, well-maintained assets and the everyday work that keeps built environments running.

Facilities management is under pressure from tighter margins, rising complexity and a growing skills gap. In this Q&A, Thermatic CEO Joe Lyon shares how the business is responding with a people-first approach to growth.

This blog shares new Joblogic analysis showing that UK service and maintenance businesses could unlock over £1 billion in savings simply by changing when jobs are logged and scheduled. It explores timing patterns like the Wednesday 4 pm “golden hour”, the impact of out of hours work and morning spikes, and explains how Joblogic customers can use their own data to smooth workloads, cut avoidable costs and protect engineer capacity.

When every second counts, you need to see the full picture. Arriving on site without a detailed breakdown of asset locations costs more than time. It slows inspections, delays repairs, and, in safety-critical sectors, puts people at risk. Joblogic already gives you the tools to track and manage assets, upload site plans, and place a pin exactly where each asset sits. But as portfoli [...]

What is Gas Safety Week? Gas Safety Week is an annual campaign run by the Gas Safe Register, which aims to raise awareness about the importance of gas safety both at home and in the workplace. Celebrating its 12th year in 2022, Gas Safety Week will be running from 12th-18th September 2022 with one common goal – ‘keeping the nation gas safe’. Gas appliances can cause leaks, carbon mono [...]

The recent incentive for Green home improvements, announced in Rishi Sunak’s Spring Statement, has slashed VAT to 0% on energy efficiency measures for the next 5 years! It’s fantastic news for homeowners and for installation companies. The VAT cut has been welcomed by campaigners and experts in the sector who have long argued that the additional cost of VAT on energy efficiency measur [...]

Is there a safer way to keep us, and our food and medicines cool? Amidst the climate emergency, what can be done to minimise the risks posed by harmful refrigerants as the need to cool buildings increases?  To celebrate the wonderful world of cooling and mark World Refrigeration Day 2022, this blog considers the importance of refrigeration and HVAC in daily life and discusses som [...]

What is a Field Service Invoice? Six Simple Ways to Improve your Field Service Invoices What Types of Invoices are There? How to Write an Invoice When’s the Best Time for Your Client to Pay an Invoice? Download Free Invoice Templates with Joblogic Whether you operate in construction, electronics or HVAC services, invoicing should be fundamental to your business process. An excellent [...]

News that the UK Environment Agency has just fined a company £1.1 million for breaching F-Gas regulations clearly shows how vital it is that your engineers are fully trained and that you keep accurate records of the work that they have completed. In this blog we outline some easy steps to ensure compliance with F-Gas Compliance software. For a guided tour of this module, book a f [...]

If you manage a team of maintenance or building service engineers in the current fuel crisis then you must be worried about missed appointments and letting your customers down.  Not only will you be losing money but you will be facing calls from frustrated customers.  In this blog we look at what you can do about it … When the petrol forecourts filled up with fuel panic-buye [...]

Recent renewable energy and smart HVAC technology methods are making our commercial and residential systems more sustainable and energy efficient than ever before. A reduction in energy consumption not only offers huge savings on energy costs but can also reduce overall carbon footprint.  This step forward is one that all HVAC service providers are required to take, now needing t [...]

Take a look around you. How many of your colleagues, managers, employees, business partners or other leaders in your sector are women? More to the point, how many of them are in qualified engineering or technical roles? If you are in the engineering, construction or building services sectors, the chances are it’s very few. Just 11% of the engineering sector in the UK is made up of wom [...]