Adam Nicholson is group pre-construction director at McLaren Construction One area of the Building Safety Act with obvious potential to transform the character of the construction industry is the competency requirement placed on site operatives. The Hackitt Review described a fragmented industry of competing competency frameworks, and installers failing to…
Simon Harris is senior director of operations at Randstad UK, Construction & Property Leo Quinn, the boss of Balfour Beatty, recently told the FT that he believes Britain is in for a decade-long infrastructure boom. He has a point – the government forecasts £650bn worth of investment in infrastructure over the…
Andy Williamson is commercial director at construction products distributor SIG The speed that products and practices will change in the construction sector is set for an exhilarating acceleration, but it won’t be painless, because the driving forces are price inflation, energy insecurity and disrupted global supply chains. If the last…
Charlotte Eccles is senior associate and Chris Hallam is partner at CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP We are living on the verge of a climate emergency and the built environment accounts for more than a third of UK carbon emissions. That’s not a statistic we can be proud of,…
Rebecca Sperti is customer relationship director at Causeway Technologies Prompt payment is the cashflow lifeline that keeps many businesses afloat in the construction supply chain. But our analysis of more than 8 million invoices sent to the top 100 construction firms in the UK has revealed that about 10 per…
Graham Harle is chief executive of Gleeds Worldwide One of the most memorable scenes in Jaws reveals the size of the fearsome beast, triggering the movie’s most famous line: “You’re gonna need a bigger boat.” The same could be said of the construction industry as we face the rather more…
Automated remote monitoring of machines via telematics can unlock valuable insights, although collating transmitted data can bring its own hurdles, as Keith Cooper reports
Telematics technology looks like a great tool for construction firms. It allows data from machines – from vans and trucks to excavators and loaders – to be…
Next steps for embedding an inclusive and welcoming culture across the sector were explored at a Construction News roundtable, sponsored by Copper Consultancy. Steve Dale reports
On the panel Emilia Hardern, diversity and inclusion project manager, Network Rail Jenny Hinde, executive director, The Clear Company Faye Jenkins, head of social…
Stuart Goodall is chief executive of the Confederation of Forest Industries (Confor) The Confederation of Forest Industries (Confor) recently warned that the UK faces declining supplies of homegrown wood due to a lack of productive tree planting. With the country needing to import more than 80 per cent of its wood requirement, the UK…
With the government using its immense buying power to turn the screw on late payers in construction, there has never been a better time for contractors to invest in this area. Since 1 April, all bidders for public-sector contracts above £5m have to show they pay 95 per cent of…
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