Procurement – Covid-19

Fire safety costs dispute goes to tribunal

Get Living, owner of London’s Olympic Village, is being sued over the £27 million cost of upgrading fire safety standards as the property industry still struggles to determine who should be responsible for paying for post-Grenfell fire safety improvements.

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Judicial review demanded for Link Road decision

Environmental campaigners have launched a legal challenge against the Department for Transport’s decision to grant a Development Consent Order for  National Highways’ £228 million A57 Link Roads scheme.

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‘Game-changing’ move on Project Bank Accounts

All Tier 1 contractors and Tier 2 sub-contractors will automatically be included on Project Bank Accounts (PBAs) on new contracts under new rules being introduced by National Highways. The move comes ten years after PBAs were first introduced on UK roads projects, and is being hailed by National Highways as a possible world first. 

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‘Sophisticated fraud’ uncovered at Keller Group

Leading geotechnical specialist Keller Group has issued a profits warning following news that two directors at its Australian business have been summarily dismissed over allegations that operating profits have been deliberately and fraudulently overstated by up to £18 million since 2019.

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Admixtures suppliers merger given the go ahead

Government’s competition watchdog has accepted that two chemical admixtures suppliers can come together without causing harm to the UK construction industry. Swiss firm Sika agreed to buy German company MBCC Group in a £4.5 billion deal in November 2021. The two businesses are the largest UK suppliers of chemical admixtures, which are used in products such as concrete to control characteristics such as strength or setting time.

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Contested road scheme sees start delayed

Start of construction on an upgrade to the A428 in East Anglia has been deferred from this month until the New Year because of an ongoing legal challenge. National Highways says the delay to the ‘Black Cat to Caxton Gibbet’ scheme is due to campaign group Transport Action Network submitting an application to the High Court for permission for a judicial review of the decision to grant the scheme a Development Consent Order.

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Fire safety concern raised over modern building approaches

Ambitions to construct homes quickly and sustainably should not be prioritised at the expense of building safety, the Government has been warned. The National Fire Chiefs Council says rules should be tightened for the testing of Modern Methods of Construction.

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Call for major projects to focus more on outcomes than cost

Promoters of major infrastructure projects need to get better at costing proposed schemes, a Parliamentary committee has heard. Institution of Civil Engineers’ policy and external affairs trustee Jonathan Spruce also said more emphasis should be placed on the whole life benefit of programmes rather than the capital cost of delivery.

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Sector output increases over last few months

Construction output rose by 0.8% in October to reach its highest monthly recorded figure for 12 years, according to data from the Office for National Statistics.

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Delivery of innovative thinking explored in the latest issue of CL

New thinking is required on construction projects in order to incentivise and drive innovation, according to our Guest Editor Laura West in the latest issue of Construction Law which arrived with subscribers this week.

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