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Contractor faces £1.2m pay out over A30 upgrade delays

Cornwall Council is seeking £1.2m in damages from construction firm Kier over delays to a highway dual carriageway upgrade on the A30 at Bodmin which saw the contractor miss its completion target by around six months.

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Health and safety prosecutions fall in construction

Prosecutions for health and safety offences in construction are down by almost 25% despite numbers of work related injuries remaining high in the sector, latest figures show.

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Consultants urged to resist onerous contract terms

Consultants in construction must be prepared to ‘walk away’ when contract conditions attempt to impose risks that cannot be properly managed, urge guest editors Will Buckby and Madeleine Kelly of Beale & Company Solicitors LLP in the new issue of Construction Law.

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Construction framework criticised over late payment inaction

Places on the Crown Commercial Service’s Construction Works & Associated Services framework – worth up to £30bn over the next seven years – have been awarded to 128 suppliers.

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Concrete firms fined £36m for cartel activity

Three concrete products firms have been hit with fines totalling more than £36m for breaking competition law by taking part in an illegal cartel.

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Call to create fair economy through procurement

Government should use public procurement more strategically to shape the wider economy, embed social value and level the playing field for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs), a report from cross-party political think tank Demos urges.

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News in Brief: November 2019

Plans to establish an independent building safety regulator to oversee new and modernised regulatory regimes for building safety and construction products – developed in the wake of the Grenfell Tower fire – were confirmed in October’s Queen’s Speech.

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Construction safety test staff bribed for answers

Staff at construction health and safety test centres in Cheshire, Essex and London have been caught giving answers to candidates – some of whom are believed to be working in the country illegally – in reward for bribes.

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HS2 introduces standard pre-qualification system

Four of High Speed 2’s biggest contractors will introduce a standardised pre-qualification system for subcontractors in an effort to streamline the procurement process, reduce costs and boost productivity, it has been announced.

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Director jailed after fatal excavator incident

Construction company Front Row Builders’ sole director Robert Harvey has been jailed after an excavator bucket that he was operating crushed an employee to death.

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