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Scottish procurement transformation plan launched

A Transformation Action Plan for reforming Scottish construction procurement, improving quality and moving towards net zero and fair work has been produced by industry-government collaborative body the Construction Leadership Forum (CLF).

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Suspended prison sentence for director after scaffold tube strikes overhead power line

A Kent scaffolding company has been fined and its director given a suspended prison sentence after a scaffolder suffered life changing injuries from an 11,000-volt electric shock.

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PFI investors group gets its first Chair

The new body representing Private Finance Initiative investors has recruited its first head, Labour peer Lord John Hutton.

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Street works fines to rise under DfT proposals

Government has launched consultation on increasing penalties on contractors for street works offences in a bid to reduce congestion and raise up to £10 million a year for resurfacing roads, setting the scene for confrontation with utilities companies and their contractors.

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Whitehall suffers from major project governance problem, says NAO

The need for better practice in delivering major projects, more efficient maintenance and improvement of assets and more professional procurement have been highlighted by the head of government spending watchdog the National Audit Office in his annual address to Parliament.

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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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