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Tom McNeill is a partner and health and safety regulatory specialist at BCL Solicitors Construction incidents resulting in fatalities, serious injuries or dangerous occurrences often trigger criminal regulatory investigations. These investigations have the potential to lead to prosecutions of organisations, directors, managers or other individuals. While organisations value their safety…

Felicity Zakers is an associate at law firm Browne Jacobson The government has recently announced further measures to protect national security by way of the Procurement Bill, which has reached the remaining report stages, with amendments being debated in Parliament this week. In addition to this bill, the increase in the…

Helen Normoyle is co-founder of My Menopause Centre To embrace and deliver workforce diversity, the construction industry must urgently offer better menopause support. The construction industry has long had a gender diversity problem. According to the Office for National Statistics, just 13 per cent of the construction industry are women…

Jo Sutherland is managing director of Magenta Associates Last month, 7,000 government representatives, investors, funders, developers, housebuilders and construction leaders descended on Leeds City Centre for the UK’s Real Estate Investment and Infrastructure Forum, fondly known as UKREiiF. Following last year’s debut, 2023’s version focused on how real estate can…

Kirsteen Milne is a legal director at Brodies LLP Modular construction has been heralded for several years now to save time and reduce waste and cost, and forms part of the “modern methods of construction” being encouraged by the government. However, it is not without its challenges, as demonstrated by…

Karen Morean is a partner in the construction, engineering & procurement team at law firm Devonshires With an increasingly difficult economic environment, insolvencies throughout the construction industry are on the rise. Compulsory voluntary arrangements (CVAs) are often used as an interim procedure that a company adopts to avoid immediate terminal…

Edd Burton (pictured above-left) is Aecom’s head of advisory services for infrastructure and Tom Douglas (above-right) is partner at Eversheds Sutherland To say the delivery of construction projects has become more complex in recent years is somewhat of an understatement. The conflict in Ukraine, Brexit and the Covid pandemic have…

Graham Harle is chief executive of Gleeds Housing is never far from the news cycle. Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer recently argued that enhanced home ownership was going to be a central plank of the Labour manifesto for government, having no doubt absorbed May’s local election results, which saw…

Rico Wojtulewicz is head of housing and planning policy at the National Federation of Builders After several years of the government inventing penalty taxes to convince voters that developers are the least innocent in their ‘hierarchy of innocent parties’, a letter from building safety minister Lee Rowley MP to Camden…

Thomas Haller is a senior associate at law firm BCLP This year there was an extra bank holiday to celebrate the coronation of King Charles III. But did this extra bank holiday entitle the contractor to an extension of time under a JCT contract? First principles Certain events may take…