Newsmakers

NEWS IN NUMBERS 10

Number of milligrams per cubic metre of air (µg/m3) by 2040 proposed by the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs; an airquality ‘headline target’ that halves the current limit. However, it’s still double the World Health Organization’s target of 5 µg/m3. The Building Engineering Services Association says the UK should be more ambitious.

Organisations se ing up thermal energy storage projects, according to the Johnson Controls Energy Efficiency Indicator Survey. That’s up from a figure of 27% recorded in the same survey five years ago.42%

£288 MILLION

The size of the UK Government’s Green Heat Network Fund, grants for which will be available over the next three years for “schemes that will deliver clean heating to homes, offices, commercial and public buildings”.

ILLUSTRATIONS: NOUN PROJECT 21%

Percentage of workers preferring to work from the office, compared with 45% preferring working from home and 34% with no specific preference. (Furniture manufacturer Steelcase assessed data from 57,000 individuals, 500 from the UK.)

£736 MILLION

The amount that the UK hospitality industry is missing out on each year because of outdated FM practices, according to a Cloudfm survey with the University of Essex.

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£1.8 MILLION

Funding for Nobel Laureate Sir Christopher Pissarides’ expansive three-year research project focused on the future of work and wellbeing. How inequalities, health and location can be affected by automation is a particular focus of the project.

50%

The government’s targeted cut to the amount of residual waste going to landfill or incineration by 2042.

29.7 MILLION

The (record) number of payrolled employees in the UK in March, according to The Office of National Statistics – representing a 275,000 increase in a single month.

69,005

Number of businesses in the cleaning, hygiene and waste sector in 2021, between them employing 1.47 million people, or about 5% of the UK’s workforce, according to a report by the British Cleaning Council (BCC).

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