Procurement – Covid-19

Brick supplier fined after worker loses hand

Major brick manufacturer Ibstock has been fined £530,000 for safety breaches after a maintenance engineer’s hand was severed in an incident at the company’s facility in Newcastle-under-Lyme.

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December 2021 issue of CL published

Major changes will be needed in the construction sector to combat climate change following the signing of the Glasgow Climate Pact at COP26, write guest editors Shona Frame and Emma Schaafsma of CMS in the latest printed edition of CL.

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Deregulation policies contributed to Grenfell disaster, Inquiry hears

Successive governments’ emphasis on deregulation created an environment where the construction industry was effectively enabled to “write its own rules”, which resulted in fire safety being compromised, the Grenfell Inquiry has heard.

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Poor performing suppliers to be blocked from contracts

New procurement rules will see companies with a track record of poor delivery, fraud or corruption blocked from winning public contracts, government has confirmed in its response to last year’s consultation on the ‘Transforming Public Procurement’ green paper. One lawyer warns of possible abuse to the system by procurers.

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Carbon measurement standard launched for construction

A universal standard for reporting carbon dioxide emissions used in the construction and lifecycle of buildings and infrastructure – also known as ‘embodied and operational carbon’ – has been published for the first time.

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Builder jailed over demolition death

A building contractor has been jailed for gross negligence manslaughter following the death of an employee during the unsafe demolition of a garage at a residential property in Chilworth, Surrey, in 2019.

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Corruption could cost construction 10%, report claims

Potential losses to fraud and corruption on UK government construction projects could amount to as much as £60Bn – 10% of planned infrastructure spending – over the next five years, it has been claimed.

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Damaging disputes legacy expected from pandemic

Covid is set to leave a long and damaging legacy of construction disputes, with financial stress and threats of insolvency likely to drive increasingly aggressive behaviour by clients and contractors, a report says.

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Green homes scheme branded a failure by MPs

Further criticism has been piled onto the government’s scrapped Green Homes Grant Voucher Scheme which MPs say “underperformed badly” and represented a “terrible waste of money and opportunity”.

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Breedon fined after unsafe blasting operation

Aggregates company Breedon has been fined for safety breaches after a blasting operation at a quarry in north Wales resulted in rocks being propelled beyond the designated danger zone, putting workers at risk.

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