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Jarrad Warhurst is the leader of the UK construction engineering discipline at consultants Robert Bird Group Why is crane strategy left until well after design decisions are made? If the efficient use of cranes was modelled earlier in the process it could accelerate the construction programme, reduce the need for…

Catherine Gelder is a partner and David McCoy is a senior associate in the London office of law firm CMS This month, nearly a year after it was published in draft form, the government introduced its Building Safety Bill to parliament. The draft had set out the government’s plan to…

Andy Mitchell CBE is co-chair of the Construction Leadership Council as well as chief executive officer of Tideway To paraphrase Peter Drucker, we can’t fix what we don’t measure. The climate emergency is by far the most pressing issue that faces our industry. You only have to glance at the…

Sarah Beale is chief executive of CITB, a role she plans to relinquish in September Who benefits from the Construction Levy? That’s a big question. There is, of course, a clear focus on those who pay it, but if the levy were collected with the aim of simply giving it…

Laura Lintott (left) is a senior associate and Megan Hulme is a trainee solicitor at law firm Trowers & Hamlins  For some time, witness statements presented in the Business and Property court have come under heavy scrutiny for being, among other things, ‘over-lawyered’. In 2018, the Civil Procedure Rules Committee…

Rob Driscoll is director of business and legal at trade body ECA As we climb out of the pandemic’s economic impact into business recovery, we face one of the most hostile landscapes in living memory: a backlog of contractual disputes; the implementation of new tax rules; residual COVID restrictions; plus…

Mike Smith is director of large enterprise and public sector at Virgin Media O2 Business The construction industry has shown its mettle during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the bounce back is now well and truly under way – with Britain’s construction sector recently seeing its fastest rate of growth since…

Adrian Attwood is executive director for London at conservation specialist DBR Reports about the cost of maintaining and repairing the UK's parliament buildings often highlight the scale of the outlay, without detailing why the work being carried out is vital or how it will benefit both the architecture itself and…

Jaimie Johnston is director and head of global systems at modern-methods consultancy Bryden Wood The past decade has seen government consistently heading in the same direction, towards value-led outcomes. In 2011, the adoption of BIM was the first step, kick-starting the modernisation of our sector with an outcomes-based hypothesis that…

Richard Beresford is chief executive of the National Federation of Builders As a sector, we invest more than £2.7bn in training each year to keep Britain building. Whether it’s keeping our workers safe and compliant on site, improving efficiency, developing skills for new or traditional techniques, or attracting new talent…