All Construction Business: Strategy, Risk and Regulations articles – Page 105
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CommentImplementing the CLC Roadmap: a legal view
What legal enablers are required to deliver the Construction Leadership Council’s Roadmap to Recovery?
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NewsGrenfell Inquiry: Rydon project manager quit over work pressures
Main contractor’s onsite boss left company 14 months into project as schedule began to slip
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CommentProject bank accounts come of age
It has taken 21 years for PBAs to become mainstream, but we are finally there
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NewsSpecialists hail move as HS2 set to use project bank accounts
Scheme trialled initiative on two enabling works packages
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NewsCLC boss wants longer visas for low-skilled workers
Andy Mitchell writes to business secretary Alok Sharma with series of demands
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CommentThe Building Safety Bill: Slow going in the right direction
Draft legislation builds could take over three years to come into force - by which time the industry must have improved competence levels
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NewsCLC launches tool to help firms assess cost impact of covid-19
Tool designed to enable better cost forecasting
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NewsJenrick to detail planning deregulation
Housing secretary’s changes to include permitted development right to demolish and rebuild existing properties
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NewsSafety bill imposes two-year prison term for breaching building regs
Draft legislation confirms new building safety regulator and reduction of building control powers
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CommentDame Judith Hackitt on the draft Building Safety Bill
Some wait to be regulated before they change, well now radical reform is coming to this industry and it better prepare
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NewsAlmost three quarters of cladding projects stalled by covid have restarted
Ongoing work has seen nearly half of buildings identified have ACM system removed or remediated
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NewsMain contractor accused of ‘pocketing’ savings to cover Grenfell pricing mistake
Rydon’s bid alleged to have been £212k too low because of an ‘adding-up error’
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NewsGrenfell main contractor ‘did not check architect’s expertise’
‘We wouldn’t have asked that question,’ contracts manager tells inquiry
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NewsWe relied on others to check subcontractors’ work, admits Grenfell’s main contractor
Senior manager the first Rydon employee to give evidence at inquiry into 2017 fire
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NewsConstruction Innovation Hub launches toolkit to improve decision-making
R D group has been backed with £72m of government money
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NewsConstruction firms claim £2.6bn of furlough payments
Industry also has most self-employment income support scheme claims
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NewsBuilding firm sued by National Trust after fire at Surrey mansion leaves it with £115m repair bill
Blaze in 2015 gutted grade I-listed property near Guildford
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NewsMore roles added to Home Office's skilled workers list
But CITB says firms must have access to migrant labour to plug skills gaps
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FeaturesThe dust has settled on the chancellor’s latest rescue package, so is the industry happy?
The government deems construction crucial to getting the country back on its feet but worries remain, writes Tom Lowe