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Collaboration targeted through southern rail contracts

Network Rail is seeking to achieve a step change to how railway works are delivered in its southern region through the adoption of Project 13’s principles of collaboration under a new contracts arrangement worth up to £9.6Bn.

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Fine issued after worker suffers football stadium fall

A construction firm has been fined after a worker fell 11 metres down a stairwell at a football stadium in Hertfordshire when the concrete floor he was working on collapsed, suffering partial paralysis.

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Construction pipeline hailed by lawyers

Plans to invest £650 billion on new infrastructure over the next decade have been welcomed by construction lawyers. Government’s latest National Construction & Infrastructure Pipeline details future planned procurements and represents the highest level of investment ever reported.

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Contractual pressures limit Covid safe collaboration

Modified working practices and Covid control measures introduced to construction sites have been largely successful in limiting transmission of the virus, new research has claimed.

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Product verification scheme launched

A new Code for Construction Product Information has been published to help tackle “disingenuous” marketing practices and the provision of misleading information by manufacturers, which have come to light in the aftermath of the Grenfell Tower fire.

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News in Brief October 2021

A public inquiry into the construction of major hospitals in Glasgow and Edinburgh where issues with key building systems triggered patient health and wellbeing concerns has started taking oral evidence.

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Covid insolvency protections lifted

Temporary legislation placing restrictions on statutory demands and winding up petitions has been lifted this week following its introduction last year to help protect firms from insolvency during the Covid-19 crisis. A “fairly immediate” increase in the number of construction firms entering insolvency is now expected, according to lawyers.

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Continued tender inflation sparks disputes warning

Tender prices in construction are continuing to surge against a backdrop of rising client demand, material price increases and reduced labour availability according to Turner & Townsend’s latest UK market intelligence report, with one lawyer warning that insolvencies and disputes are likely to follow.

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Heavy fine for Britcon after falling pile strikes worker

Contractor Britcon has been fined £570,000 for safety breaches after a worker was struck and seriously injured by a falling load from a mechanical excavator at a site in Scarborough in 2018.

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Call to replace benefit-cost ratios for infrastructure schemes

Government must overhaul the current benefit-cost ratio method of appraising major infrastructure projects and should establish a formal duty to report to Parliament for ‘intense scrutiny’ where schemes exceed cost or time ceilings during delivery, a new report urges.

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