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Flood resilience investment of £5.2 billion has no adequate plan, say MP’s

Construction price inflation and planning bureaucracy are blamed in a Public Accounts Committee report for failure to improve the UK’s flood resilience.

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Roadmap points way to increased nuclear investment

The government has moved to give potential investors more long term certainty of investment plans by publishing a Civil Nuclear Roadmap that holds out the hope of at least one new nuclear power station of the same size as Hinkley C or Sizewell C being built every five years from 2030 to 2044.

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Insurers expect rise in fraudulent claims as economic conditions continue to bite

Construction insurance will experience increasing impacts from the accelerating spread of Artificial Intelligence technology across the industry, warns law firm RPC in its Annual Insurance Review.

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Cost plus contracts under scrutiny for raising HS2 costs

The use of cost plus contracts for civil engineering on Phase 1 HS2 has been condemned by Sir Jonathan Thompson, the Chair and Acting Chief Executive of HS2 Ltd.

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Government called on to remove investment plan uncertainty around General Elections

The Civil Engineering Contractors Association (CECA) has called on government to introduce an 18 month ‘fix’ on infrastructure investment plans covering the periods before and after elections, to be agreed by all major parties.

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Innovative collaboration approach to guide AMP8 investment

Northumbrian Water has appointed new key partners to support its AMP8 £3.6 billion investment programme to be delivered under what it says is an innovative industry-leading collaborative partnership.

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Crane breach collapse leads to a safety breach fine

An offshore drilling company has been fined for safety breaches after a crane boom collapsed catastrophically, almost eight years after the incident.

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Plant company fined £900,000 for fatal risk assessment failure

Leicestershire based powered access platform hirer and trainer Nationwide Platforms Limited has been fined £900,000 after an employee, father-of-two Lee Banham, was crushed to death.

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Massive government underspend on housing project support revealed

A Freedom of Information (FOI) request has revealed that only one third of a £4.2 billion government fund available to increase housebuilding has been spent since its creation in 2017.

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Long running arbitration results in defeat for engineering company

Ecuador has beaten off a multimillion-dollar arbitration claim from an Australian engineering firm.

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