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Construction strategy widens

The Cabinet Office is to widen the focus of the government Construction Strategy beyond the original seven major spending departments to take in departments with smaller but significant construction budgets.

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Supply chains boost safety

Construction supply chains can have a positive effect on health and safety management in high profile organisations and projects according to research by Cardiff University for the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).

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News in Brief: November 2012

The amended Construction Contracts (Amendment) Act (Northern Ireland) 2011 comes into force on 14 November 2012, and the Scheme for Construction Contracts is amended with effect from the same date.

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Fraud warning

Insider fraud is a bigger problem in companies in construction than in other industries and six out of ten construction, engineering and infrastructure businesses were affected by corruption in the last 12 months, according to an Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) survey.

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Calls for procurement reform

The Civil Engineering Contractors Association (CECA) has put reform of construction procurement and funding at the heart of a new campaign to convince the government of the case for using the industry to generate economic growth.

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New duty in reform bill

The Scottish government intends to create a Procurement Reform Bill which would establish a national legislative framework for buying goods, works, and services including construction projects, worth some £9,000 million a year.

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Contractors quit public sector

Almost two-thirds of Scottish contractors have abandoned bidding for public sector projects over the past three years because the costs of procurement are to high, says a report from the Scottish Building Federation (SBF).

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News in Brief: October 2012

The All Party Parliamentary Group for Excellence in the Built Environment has called for a public sector ‘procurement revolution’ in a report ‘A better deal for public building’.

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How secure is your security?

Contractor insolvency is on the rise again as the industry struggles against weak workloads and falling margins. Jane Miles of SNR Denton provides a timely review of the methods of protecting against these events.

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Report on reform progress

Public sector construction procurement is undergoing fundamental reform and substantial progress has been made towards government targets of achieving cost savings of up to 20 per cent, says Cabinet Office Minister Francis Maude.

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