Procurement – Covid-19

Infrastructure resilience plea to government

The National Infrastructure Commission and Climate Change Committee have written a joint letter to government urging ministers to take steps to improve the resilience of key infrastructure services to the effects of climate change.

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Build UK names contract terms to be shunned

Industry representative group Build UK has identified six contract terms that it advises members not to agree to being used on their projects. The advice is non binding, as it has to be under competition law, and Build UK stresses its members are free to negotiate whatever contract terms they like.

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Road builders must hold new Diploma

National Highways is to embed Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) in its procurement approach and will insist that its contractors pass an IPD Diploma examination.

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New regulatory regime for construction products

The long awaited post Grenfell tragedy review of the UK’s construction products testing regime has been published, proposing bringing all construction materials within the scope of the new construction products regulator.

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Plant owners say drug and alcohol abuse is a ticking timebomb

The Scottish Plant Owners Association (SPOA) has written to the Construction Leadership Council (CLC) calling for action to tackle drug and alcohol abuse among plant operators in the construction industry.

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Government commitment to flood resilience investment uncertain, says NIC

The National Infrastructure Commission has admitted that it is hard to say whether the government is genuinely committed to improving the UK’s long-term flood resilience.

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HS2’s Euston tunnel confirmed delayed

HS2 has confirmed that the tunnel that was to take the railway into Euston station will be delayed.

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Network Rail maintenance cuts to raise accident risk

Leaked documents relating to an internal presentation by Network Rail reveal that the company will not be able to operate, maintain and renew the UK’s rail network at current levels during the next five year funding period. The risk of delays and accidents will increase as a result of reduced maintenance budgets.

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Jail sentence after man dies in roof fall

A man has been jailed after a worker fell from the roof of a commercial property in North London and died a week later. Patrick McCarthy was given a 14-month custodial sentence after the death of Mr Andrei-Ionel Hutanu in 2019.

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Survey provides positive supply chain outlook

Improving supplies of construction products and materials with fewer logistical bottlenecks - a major cause of recent contractual stress - and a moderate rise in new orders are behind the industry’s stronger performance in the S&P Global/CIPS UK Construction PMI for March.

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