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Joinery firm fined £20,000 for health and safety dust breaches

As HSE prepares to launch an anti dust campaign in construction (see our other news story) a south east London joinery firm has been fined £20,000 for failing to control its employees’ exposure to wood dust.

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HSE campaign to target lung health

The Health and Safety Executive is to launch an anti dust campaign targeting construction sites across the UK.

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Grenfell compensation package details revealed

A £150 million compensation settlement for people affected by the Grenfell Tower fire has been awarded by the High Court.

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Housebuilder challenges government planning block

Berkeley Group is to launch a legal challenge calling for a statutory review of housing secretary Michael Gove’s decision to block its plans for 165 homes in the Kent Weald on design grounds.

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Housebuilder hit with pollution fine

Housebuilder Taylor Wimpey has been fined nearly half a million pounds for polluting a river on multiple occasions in Wales.

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Grenfell tragedy report delayed until 2024

Publication of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry’s final report will not happen until an as yet unspecified date in 2024, rather than before the end of this year as had been expected.

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New issue of Construction Law arriving with subscribers

The latest issue of the Construction Law print version will be arriving on subscribers’ desks about now, and subscribers can also access the articles on the Construction Law website which has a fully searchable database of over ten years of the journal.

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News in Brief: May 2023

Construction law expert Professor David Mosey CBE of King’s College London Centre of Construction Law and Dispute Resolution has released FAC-1 Framework Alliance Contract: a Handbook.

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Road builders must hold new Diploma

National Highways is to embed Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) in its procurement approach and will insist that its contractors pass an IPD Diploma examination.

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Water company to use new collaborative approach

Northumbrian Water is challenging suppliers, especially design and construct companies, to contribute to shaping a “step change” in delivering work under its £4.5 Billion asset management period 8 (AMP8) capital investment programme.

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