Kim Hegarty is director of Linesight The global chip shortage, which began in 2020, has had a severe impact on a number of industries from electronics to automotive and renewable energy. At the same time, demand for chips has continued to rise, resulting in a global race to localise semiconductor…
James Freeth is associate director at McBains With the oldest and leakiest housing stock in Europe, it’s estimated that 29 million homes in the UK will need retrofitting before 2050 to protect against uncontrolled heat loss. Retrofitting projects will therefore become increasingly common as property owners seek to upgrade existing…
Charis Beverton is a partner at law firm Winckworth Sherwood April marked two years since the Building Safety Act 2022 (BSA) received royal assent, pledging far-reaching overhauls to building standards in response to the Grenfell Tower fire disaster. “Liability for remediation costs – and where they sit within the supply…
Lewis Yorke-Johnson is co-founder of construction recruitment firm The Shore Group. On Friday (3 May) he announced on LinkedIn that his firm was ending corporate golf days due to the sport’s lack of diversity. The post caused a huge stir, with more than 125,000 views and dozens of comments. Below,…
Elliott Kenton is a partner and health and safety expert at law firm Weightmans Construction firms now face higher costs for health and safety compliance following an increase in the fee for intervention (FFI). This is the mechanism by which the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) charges businesses for investigative…
Rachel Heald is a partner at Hawkswell Kilvington JCT has now published the long-awaited 2024 edition of the Design and Build Contract family. On reviewing the new Design and Build Contract (DB 2024), it is clear that the drafting changes follow three main themes: “Many of the 2024 changes are…
Neeral Shah is founder and chief executive of YardLink In any area of the construction supply chain, offering credit terms is an essential aspect of business planning. But as construction sector administrations stabilise and optimism rises, it’s crucial to establish ground rules within your team to mitigate risk. “With the…
David Lukic is a planning and construction solicitor at Weightmans The construction sector operates in a very different environment now to the one that existed just a few years ago, with significant changes to construction law and the lasting economic hangover caused by the pandemic, rapid inflation and the impact…
David Glennon is group head of digital engineering at Mace Innovation in construction and consultancy is frequently linked to big machines, cleaner practices and new toys such as robotics, but there is a key concept that runs throughout all innovation in our sector: data. “Intentional data-gathering efforts are proving enduringly…
Amit Vadgama is a principal building surveyor at Pick Everard Outdated, dilapidated and in need of investment. These were the challenges lobbied at the government when it launched its Health Infrastructure Plan in October 2020. Since then, and through the weight of the pandemic, the construction industry has been tasked…
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