Procurement – Covid-19

Building firm handed fine after roof fall

A company has been fined for breaching work at height regulations after a construction worker fell six metres through a fragile roof sheet while working at a site in Amesbury, Wiltshire.

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Construction Law publishes November 2021 issue

Two recent court decisions signal another nail in the coffin for challenges to liquidated damages, write guest editors Peter O’Brien and Thomas Wheeler of Clyde & Co in the latest printed edition of Construction Law, which reached subscribers this week.

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Private Bill proposes to end cash retentions

A Private Member’s Bill proposing to abolish cash retentions within construction contracts has had its first reading in the House of Lords. Lawyers suggest outlawing retentions is not the answer and the Bill is unlikely to make it through Parliament.

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Procurement practices hold back carbon efforts

A deeply embedded culture of ‘lowest price’ procurement across the public sector is holding back industry progress towards lower carbon infrastructure by inhibiting innovation and collaboration, a new report highlights.

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FRC issues fines over Interserve audits

Accounting firm Grant Thornton has been fined £718,250 by the Financial Reporting Council for its statutory audits of former construction outsourcer Interserve plc’s financial statements for 2015 to 2017.

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Director receives suspended sentence after forklift death

A managing director of a scaffolding company has been handed a suspended prison sentence and a fine after an employee died when he was struck by a forklift truck that had been poorly maintained.

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Chancellor’s cladding pledge welcomed but detail urged on net zero

Funding to remediate high risk residential buildings with unsafe cladding will be levied on developers, the Chancellor confirmed in this week’s Budget and Spending Review announcement. The move has been welcomed, but lawyers and industry groups criticised a lack of detail from the Budget on driving forward the net zero agenda.

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Probe launched into collapsed contractor NMCN’s auditor

Regulatory body the Financial Reporting Council has commenced an investigation into an audit of collapsed construction company NMCN’s financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2019. The contractor fell into administration earlier this month after a £24 million refinancing deal with investors failed to get over the line.

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Nuclear funding model promises greater risk sharing

Legislation for a new financing model to pay for nuclear power stations which allows developers to share construction risks with consumers will be laid by the government. The Regulated Asset Base model is expected to enable development of the planned Sizewell C power station.

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Prompt payment standard to be strengthened

A requirement placed on firms bidding for large government contracts to pay their supply chain on time will be strengthened next year under a Cabinet Office directive to further clamp down on poor payment practices.

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