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Luke Osborne is energy and emerging technologies solutions advisor at the ECA Last week’s British Energy Security Strategy outlined a much anticipated plan to achieve energy independence and net-zero carbon. It received mixed reactions from the construction sector, ranging from praise for its renewed focus on wind power to shock…

Priya Shah is associate director for life sciences at cost and project management consultancy Linesight The government’s Levelling Up white paper, published at the beginning of February, details a series of ambitious proposals designed to boost the UK beyond the prosperous confines of London and the South East. Ministers believe…

Loraine Martins, director of diversity and inclusion at one of the industry’s biggest clients, has spent more than a decade turning round the rail body's reputation on inclusivity. As she prepares to leave Network Rail, she tells Ian Weinfass about the progress she’s made and why there’s still a lot…

Matt Ace is a director in the Wales office of engineering firm and regeneration specialist Hydrock The publication of the government’s levelling up white paper begs the question: is “levelling up” enough? In Wales, our issue has never been a lack of ambition, but instead one of distance. The long…

By Rudi Klein (pictured left) and Trevor Hursthouse  Subcontractors and suppliers have lost almost £115m following the collapse of NMCN – a sum that will no doubt include millions of pounds worth of retentions. It is four years since the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) closed its…

Exclusive: The average tenure of a construction minister is notoriously short, but freshly appointed Lee Rowley has clear ambitions. He aims to speak up on behalf of an industry he also hopes to hear more from, he tells Ian Weinfass

Asked what his main priorities are, Lee Rowley answers without hesitation: “I…

Board members of major clients, government figures, a mayor and the head of construction's skills body are set to be among those making headlines in the New Year. Here are 10 people the industry will be watching in 2022.

Andrew Haines It can’t be easy being the head of a…

Mike Smith is technical director at the Electrical Contractors’ Association When Dame Judith Hackitt reviewed Building Regulations in the wake of the 2017 Grenfell Tower fire, she found a construction industry in need of major and urgent improvement. The Building Safety Bill (BSB), which has resulted from that review, will…

Colin Jones is a partner at law firm HCR, writing on behalf of the Forum of Insurance Lawyers (FOIL) Regulatory Sector Focus Team The short-term response to the 2017 Grenfell Tower fire tragedy has, understandably, focused on high rise buildings with multiple occupancy. With inquiries concluding that the building safety…

Paul Reeve is CSR director at engineering services body Electrical Contractor’s Association and a member of the Construction Leadership Council’s Zero Carbon Workstream Ahead of COP26 kicking off this Sunday, major new public sector procurement rules on carbon reporting came into effect at the end of September. Procurement note PPN…