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Asbestos Surveyor death leads to fines

Failure to properly maintain a switch room led to the death of a surveyor engaged in an asbestos survey, a Scottish court concluded, resulting in a fine of £80,000 for safety breaches.

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Bonds fraud by Birmingham highways worker leads to prison

A former council highways worker extradited back to the UK has been jailed for stealing nearly £1m from a local authority through pocketing refunds of payment bonds due to contractors.

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The Fire Safety (England) Regulations come into force

The Fire Safety (England) Regulations come into force next week, Monday 23 January, the latest in a range of new legislation design to implement the recommendations of the Hackitt review of the Grenfell Tower tragedy.

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Kier hit by fines for safety breaches

Kier has been fined more than £4 million after staff twice struck overhead powerlines while working on the M6 motorway.

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Nuclear regulator issues safety enforcement notices

The Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) has confirmed it served three enforcement notices at the Hinkley Point C site in Somerset following a fatal accident on 13 November last year.

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Fire safety costs dispute goes to tribunal

Get Living, owner of London’s Olympic Village, is being sued over the £27 million cost of upgrading fire safety standards as the property industry still struggles to determine who should be responsible for paying for post-Grenfell fire safety improvements.

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Judicial review demanded for Link Road decision

Environmental campaigners have launched a legal challenge against the Department for Transport’s decision to grant a Development Consent Order for  National Highways’ £228 million A57 Link Roads scheme.

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‘Game-changing’ move on Project Bank Accounts

All Tier 1 contractors and Tier 2 sub-contractors will automatically be included on Project Bank Accounts (PBAs) on new contracts under new rules being introduced by National Highways. The move comes ten years after PBAs were first introduced on UK roads projects, and is being hailed by National Highways as a possible world first. 

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‘Sophisticated fraud’ uncovered at Keller Group

Leading geotechnical specialist Keller Group has issued a profits warning following news that two directors at its Australian business have been summarily dismissed over allegations that operating profits have been deliberately and fraudulently overstated by up to £18 million since 2019.

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Admixtures suppliers merger given the go ahead

Government’s competition watchdog has accepted that two chemical admixtures suppliers can come together without causing harm to the UK construction industry. Swiss firm Sika agreed to buy German company MBCC Group in a £4.5 billion deal in November 2021. The two businesses are the largest UK suppliers of chemical admixtures, which are used in products such as concrete to control characteristics such as strength or setting time.

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