How soon until infrastructure’s digital revolution becomes the “new normal”?

The Centre for Digital Built Britain (CDBB) continues to develop a systems-based vision for UK infrastructure and to improve understanding on how a digital approach could be used to better design, build, operate and integrate our built environment.

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Legal terms explained: Force majeure

‘Force majeure’ has no standard definition in English law. However, it is generally understood to be a contractual term which excuses one or both parties from performing their contractual obligations, if the party seeking to rely on the clause is prevented from doing so by a specified event which is outside their control.

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News in Brief July 2020

A group of MPs has called for construction firms to be made to pay for the replacement of dangerous cladding on high risk residential buildings.

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Straws worth clutching at

Commentators and forecasters across the world are grasping at whatever straws they think they can see for signs of a rebound from the Covid-19 lockdown’s impact on economies.

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Infrastructure plans criticised for rehashed pledges

Government’s pledge of a ‘New Deal’ for Britain with £5Bn to be spent on infrastructure has been criticised for representing too small of an investment and containing several previously committed schemes.

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Fatal accidents rise in construction

Fatal workplace incidents rose in the construction sector last year despite an overall reduction in deaths across all industries, according to statistics released this week by the Health & Safety Executive.

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On site distancing rules revised

Workers on English construction sites can now stay one metre apart with risk mitigation measures in circumstances where physical distancing of two metres is not viable, according to updated Site Operating Procedures. Organisations should have in place arrangements for monitoring and reviewing their compliance, lawyers urge.

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Planning reform proposals slammed

Radical reforms to planning law announced by the Prime Minister earlier this week may lead to poor planning decisions and piecemeal development in the wrong places, lawyers have warned.

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Firms settle over 11 year dispute

An out of court settlement worth €600M (£550M) has been reached over damages caused by the collapse of the City of Cologne’s municipal archives building during the construction of a new metro line in March 2009.

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High Speed 2 challenge heads for appeal

The Court of Appeal will conduct a rolled up hearing to consider an appeal by environmental campaigner and broadcaster Chris Packham regarding an application for a judicial review of the High Speed 2 project.

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