Procurement – Covid-19

Dangerous cladding replacement progress slammed

Government has “badly missed” its target for flammable cladding to be removed from high rise buildings, with the UK’s “not fit for purpose” building safety regulation system hampering efforts to improve safety, the Public Accounts Committee reports.

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Director receives suspended prison sentence after fatal fall

A scaffolding boss has been given a suspended prison sentence and his company was fined after a worker suffered a fatal head injury in a fall from height caused by a collapsing scaffold.

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Council wins again in waste plant dispute

A High Court judge has found in favour of Essex County Council for a second time in a dispute with the operator of the Tovi Eco Park waste disposal plant in Basildon over performance issues at the PFI facility.

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Grenfell Inquiry hears call for products ban

An immediate ban should be placed on the use of any form of combustible insulation or cladding, the director of the specialist contractor responsible for the unsafe cladding system installed at Grenfell Tower has told the Inquiry into the 2017 fire, which resumed this week after a summer recess.

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News in Brief: 11 September 2020

Guidance for expert witnesses on participating in remote and virtual hearings has been issued by a committee of leading judges.

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Judges to consider challenge to new planning laws

A legal challenge which aims to halt significant changes to UK planning laws that came into force at the start of this month will be the subject of a rolled up hearing in the High Court in October.

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Covid guidance from JCT

JCT has published a series of new guidance notes setting out information for contract users about the impact of Covid-19 on construction projects and the contractual issues that are arising as a result of the pandemic.

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Disputes avoided after nuclear procurement failure

The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority has been praised in a National Audit Office report today for avoiding legal disputes since the failure, termination and subsequent renegotiation of a contract to manage the decommissioning of Magnox sites. But the authority needs to get a better handle on the cost of cleaning up the sites, it reports after the estimated figure increased by up to £2.7bn since 2017.

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Risk reform urged to boost private infrastructure

Improved handling of risk will be needed on construction projects in order to help attract more private sector investment in infrastructure at a time when spending is required to spur the UK’s economic recovery from the coronavirus crisis, a new report urges.

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Fines issued over fatal demolition incident

Three construction companies have been fined a combined total of over £250,000 after a worker suffered fatal injuries while demolishing a building in preparation for a development project on the Isle of Wight.

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