Construction Law

JANUARY 5, 2024

An offshore drilling company has been fined for safety breaches after a crane boom collapsed catastrophically, almost eight years after the incident. To read more of this and every other news story on this site, please log in with your Construction Law membership account details.

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Construction Law

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

A company has been fined £450,000 with £167,601 costs for corporate manslaughter and a director has received a suspended prison sentence for health and safety offences after a labourer was crushed to death at a construction site.

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Construction Law

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Many contractors are ignoring safety regulations despite repeated warnings that measures introduced by the Building Safety Act are already in place and affect every project, not just high rise residential projects (HRBs), according to the Building Engineering Services Association (BESA). See the panel to the right.

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Construction Law

MARCH 8, 2024

The Industry Safety Steering Group (ISSG) has hit out at developers for continuing to build with designs appropriate to older standards. The group says that some developers show an approach based on minimal compliance of safety regulations. See the panel to the right.

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Construction Law

MARCH 28, 2024

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Construction Law

JUNE 13, 2024

BAM Nuttall Ltd has been fined £2.345 million for health and safety breaches following the death of a boatman who drowned during work on weir gates on the River Aire. To read more of this and every other news story on this site, please log in with your Construction Law membership account details.

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Construction Law

JUNE 7, 2024

million after pleading guilty to safety breaches in 2016 that resulted in the death of a scaffolder. To read more of this and every other news story on this site, please log in with your Construction Law membership account details. Tata Chemicals Europe Limited has been fined £1.2

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Safety Services Company

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

Top 10 Safety and Compliance Solution Providers - 2019. Safety Services Company, a leading provider of safety and compliance training products and services, is proud to be named as one of the Top 10 Safety and Compliance Solution Providers 2019 by Construction Tech Review magazine, in Safety and Compliance 2019.

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Construction Law

MAY 16, 2024

The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities has won a landmark legal challenge against a freeholder that will force it to fix serious building safety issues in a Stevenage tower block. To read more of this and every other news story on this site, please log in with your Construction Law membership account details.

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Construction Law

MAY 10, 2024

The director of a Croydon-based double glazing company has been given a suspended jail sentence after pleading guilty to health and safety breaches that led to the death of a worker. To read more of this and every other news story on this site, please log in with your Construction Law membership account details.

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Construction Law

APRIL 26, 2024

The Scottish Government is to consider raising a tax on developers to help fix building safety issues using powers secured from the UK Government. To read more of this and every other news story on this site, please log in with your Construction Law membership account details.

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Construction Law

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Editor’s comment Procurement slammed in Edinburgh Tram inquiry report Editor Nick Barrett laments the ‘litany of failures’ identified in Lord Hardie’s report into the Edinburgh Tram fiasco. Lessons must obviously be learned for future procurements; but none of them are new.

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Construction Law

MAY 3, 2024

A company director has been given a suspended jail sentence after pleading guilty to health and safety breaches that exposed workers to asbestos. To read more of this and every other news story on this site, please log in with your Construction Law membership account details.

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Construction Law

MARCH 28, 2024

The Building Safety Regulator (BSR) was expected to publish long-awaited technical guidance on second staircases rules as we went to press. To read more of this and every other news story on this site, please log in with your Construction Law membership account details.

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Construction Law

APRIL 5, 2024

Research from specification platform NBS shows the industry is still struggling to achieve a consensus on the scope and requirements of the Building Safety Act 2022 (BSA). To read more of this and every other news story on this site, please log in with your Construction Law membership account details.

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Construction Law

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

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Construction Law

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Editor’s comment Evolution can disrupt more than revolution The new Procurement Act comes into force next year. Editor Nick Barrett says much detail on how the new regime will work is still awaited, and should be carefully scrutinised when published. Building Safety Act Safe as (qualifying tenants’) houses?

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Construction Law

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Rogue building owners failing to fix medium and high rise properties with safety defects are being freshly targeted in a joint government and local authority initiative. To read more of this and every other news story on this site, please log in with your Construction Law membership account details.

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Construction Law

MARCH 15, 2024

A crisis in building control in England has been averted by the Building Safety Regulator granting a 13 week extension to the deadline by which inspectors have to prove competence. To read more of this and every other news story on this site, please log in with your Construction Law membership account details.

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Construction Law

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The Building Safety Regulator has confirmed that high-rise residential blocks will not always need to have a complete design in order to receive building control approval. To read more of this and every other news story on this site, please log in with your Construction Law membership account details. See the panel to the right.

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The Constructor

JANUARY 29, 2012

This leads to the presentation of an Information Technology IT tool for construction project safety management Total-Safety and, in particular, a module within Total-Safety designed to help construction personnel develop method statements with improved levels of hazard identification.

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Construction Law

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The Building Safety Regulator has admitted that there is no target date for publication of regulations concerning the second staircase requirement for residential high rise buildings. To read more of this and every other news story on this site, please log in with your Construction Law membership account details.

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Construction Law

JUNE 3, 2024

Legislation state of play table Our regular update on the progress of regulations and legislation affecting construction and procurement compiled by Alignment Media. If the rate of insolvencies in the industry is anything to go by, the answer is no, he says. The judgment is vital case law, they argue.

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Construction Law

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Another company was fined £120,000 at an earlier hearing for health and safety breaches relating to the same incident. To read more of this and every other news story on this site, please log in with your Construction Law membership account details.

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Construction Law

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Editor’s comment Whitehall governance problem at heart of procurement inadequacies? Editor Nick Barrett asks how long the UK can get away with the governance problem said by the head of the National Audit Office to be embedded at the heart of Whitehall when it comes to managing large scale procurements.

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Construction Law

APRIL 2, 2024

News Our news round up looks at Birmingham City Council on the verge of starting the judicial review application to try and reverse a government refusal to approve a major highways contract; a warning to avoid ‘group think’ in major public sector project delivery; and a new framework to promote the use of artificial intelligence in project delivery.

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Construction Law

MARCH 1, 2024

News Our regular news round up includes a call from insurance companies for pilot projects to find investment models for green infrastructure; failure of another legal challenge to the Stonehenge project; and a warning that the new Building Safety Regulator is looking for a high profile prosecution to make a point.

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Construction Law

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

million after being found guilty of corporate manslaughter and breaching health and safety regulations when an employee was run over and killed by a loading shovel. To read more of this and every other news story on this site, please log in with your Construction Law membership account details. A recycling company has been fined £2.15

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Construction Enquirer

JUNE 8, 2023

Cost consultant Arcadis has warned that the second staircase rule in the Capital will set back tall residential projects in procurement by up to 9 months. In its latest tender price forecast for the UK, the cost consultant warned the new fire safety-based design delay would worsen the wider market slowdown.

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Construction Enquirer

AUGUST 14, 2023

A major hike in the expected cost of remediating legacy hire-rise buildings for fire safety in the UK has plunged global construction group Lendlease into the red. Key risks include the addition of new buildings or new information in relation to already identified buildings, as well as the rising costs in the local market.

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Construction Enquirer

MAY 14, 2023

The 116 winning consultants have been confirmed for a country-wide £30m framework to help support new build, refurbishment and retrofit of public sector buildings and homes.

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Construction Enquirer

MAY 17, 2023

landscaping, fencing, drainage, civils, formwork, reinforcement and concrete) General procurement (materials, plant, consumables, innovation, sustainability) Buildings & Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing (MEP) (incl. Civils & Stations work streams Urban realm (incl. To secure a place, visit hs2.org.uk/MTC23.

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Construction Law

JANUARY 31, 2020

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Autodesk Construction Cloud

OCTOBER 5, 2022

AI Object Detection and Safety Analytics deliver actionable data to augment RFIs and reports in Autodesk Build or BIM 360. EarthCam’s unique ability to accurately align real-time photos and video over 3D models in Navisworks gives new perspectives and transforms collaboration.? Performance Tracking .

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Lets Build

MAY 11, 2020

While construction site workers still need to work on the field, office roles such as those in procurement, client relations, and human resources will have to be fulfilled remotely. News about hospitals going over their capacity and shortages in personal protective equipment is quite common as the crisis reaches its peak.

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The Constructor

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

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The Constructor

MARCH 26, 2012

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