Procurement – Covid-19

Railway faults case to go ahead, Judge rules

A Scottish judge has ruled that a lawsuit seeking over £11.5M in damages against Morrison Construction, now part of Galliford Try, for its work constructing the Cairngorm Mountain Railway at Aviemore can go ahead.

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Carbon impact figures to be demanded by City planners

The City of London Corporation is introducing new planning guidance that will mean developers have to submit specific information about the comparative carbon impact of a range of alternatives for their schemes at pre-application stage.

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Leadership Council calls for relaxed immigration rules

The Construction Leadership Council (CLC) has updated its guidance on how construction companies can better access the Points Based Immigration System in a bid to help ease the construction skills crisis.

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Construction Law subscribers receive new issue of the journal

The print version of Construction Law is arriving on subscriber’s desks this week, with the usual blend of analysis and insight into the main legal issues affecting construction. Our Guest Editor Tim Seal of Ridgemont warns against turning to non legal advisers for guidance through the typically highly complex issues that arise in construction.

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NEC launches new blended format of its NEC4 Project Management Accreditation

Construction procurement contract provider NEC has launched a new blended format of the NEC4 Project Management Accreditation (PMA) in a bid to make NEC accreditation and qualification more accessible to the construction and engineering industries.

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Contractor given large fine for polluting a local brook

The Environment Agency has successfully prosecuted a construction company for polluting a local brook whilst engaged as contractors at an East Midlands Gateway development site.

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Construction boss jailed for six years for tax evasion scam

Construction company boss Ben Richardson from Deal, Kent, has been jailed for six years for stealing over £2 million of taxpayers’ money while he was in control of multiple failing companies in the construction industry. His wife, a colleague and his sister also received prison sentences in relation to the scam.

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Sellafield Ltd fined for safety breaches at Magnox facility

Sellafield Ltd was today fined £400,000 after admitting a health and safety breach that resulted in a worker sustaining serious back injuries when he fell from a scaffolding ladder at the Magnox Reprocessing Facility.

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Projects are delayed and clients consider single stage tendering, says forecast

Clients have an increasing appetitive to consider single stage tendering rather than the insistence on two stage tendering noticed six months ago, according to Rider Levett Bucknall’s (RLB) latest Tender Price Forecast.

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No net zero plan puts decarbonisation at risk

Government ambitions to decarbonise the UK’s power provision by 2035 are at risk because there is no delivery plan, government spending watchdog the National Audit Office (NAO) warns in a new report.

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