Procurement – Covid-19

Aggregates firm sentenced over excavator safety failings

J Murphy Aggregates Ltd, its director and an agency excavator operator have been sentenced for safety breaches after a worker was struck and seriously injured by an excavator which fell from an aggregates stockpile at one of the firm’s sites. The company was also fined for a separate, later incident which saw a worker dragged under an excavator.

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Collapsed contractor fined £1.5m after fatal crane fall

Defunct steelwork contractor Cleveland Bridge has been fined £1.5 million after an electrician suffered a fatal fall from an overhead crane platform due to a poorly maintained access panel giving way beneath him. 

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Government rejects developers’ proposal on cladding remediation

A collective of leading developers has offered a commitment to fund remediation of critical fire safety issues on all 11 metre-plus buildings they have developed since the turn of the millennium as part of ongoing discussions with government to fix the building safety crisis.

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Insurers ‘may walk away’ from sector over safety bill amendments

Late amendments to the Building Safety Bill including plans to extend defects liability have been described as “unworkable” by the Construction Industry Council and could see providers of professional indemnity insurance walk away from the sector.

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Gove grilled by MPs over building safety plans

Michael Gove has admitted that the Government faces “practical difficulties” in pursuing foreign based manufacturers of construction products and residential developers for contributions to fixing the building safety crisis.

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Guidance launched to combat cyber threats in construction

Engaging in collaboration along supply chains to help mitigate the risk of cyber attacks on projects is among key advice issued to construction firms in first of its kind guidance for the sector published this week.

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Costain settles contractual dispute with National Grid

Costain has reached a final settlement with National Grid following a contract dispute on a legacy project to upgrade gas compressor stations in Peterborough and Huntingdon.

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Construction safety test administrators jailed for fraud

Two construction test centre administrators have been sentenced to 28 months in prison each for fraud offences after they admitted to falsifying candidates’ site health and safety tests for commercial gain.

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Call for step change in ethical practices

Ethical culture and practice must be further embedded in the engineering profession as key sectors including construction look to balance tensions between profitability, sustainability and safety concerns, according to a new report.

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Public procurement action urged to drive off-site construction

Government procurement must be leveraged more effectively to drive wider adoption of off-site manufacturing and meet ‘Project Speed’ ambitions for infrastructure delivery, a new report from the Association for Consultancy & Engineering has urged.

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