Government looks to extend Awaab’s law to specialist accommodation

The government is consulting on whether the law requiring social housing landlords to fix health-threatening defects within set timeframes should be extended to cover elderly, disabled and other vulnerable people. The post Government looks to extend Awaab’s law to specialist accommodation appeared first on Property Week.

London local government body identifies sites for 50,000 affordable homes

Local government body London Councils has called for additional funding to boost the capital's council housing stock by 15%. The post London local government body identifies sites for 50,000 affordable homes appeared first on Property Week.

Government ‘could provide interest-free funding’ to help firms at risk of going under due to cost of fixing buildings, says lawyer

‘There has to be some way of safeguarding industry while carrying out all this remediation,’ Fenwick Elliot partner says

Loughborough university professor made new construction adviser

The government has appointed a university professor and civil and construction engineer as its new chief construction and scientific adviser. The post Loughborough university professor made new construction adviser appeared first on Construction Management.

Building Safety Regulator ‘huge impediment’ to development and needs reforming, shadow housing minister says

Gareth Bacon says a future Conservative government would look to reform regulator brought in to police construction after Grenfell disaster

Cheating or Competing? Price-fixing

Short descriptor video on what price-fixing is, why it's wrong and what you can do to stop it.

Final Report to Government by the Procurement / Lean Client Task Group - Published by UK Government Construction Group

The Group has focussed on four key areas: new procurement models, the „Intelligent Client‟, the effectiveness of frameworks and cross-government collaboration in procurement.

HM Gov - British Energy Security Strategy, 06042022

The UK Government has now issued its latest Energy (Supply) Strategy which aims to boost UK energy independence and tackle rising prices. Up to 95% of the UK's electricity could come from low-carbon sources by 2030 Concern has been raised that the Strategy: - does not include new policies on insulating buildings; - that it proposes to seek more oil & gas in the North Sea; and - is it right to expand our Nuclear provision However, the investment with renewables is being welcomed

New Civil Engineer - Future of Rail - Does the 'Williams-Shapps review' signal a brave new world for rail, 24062021

A rail review was originally commissioned in 2018 after the failure of the East Coast franchise, as well as serious disruption caused by timetable changes in May 2018. Williams-Shapps review caused ripples in the rail industry earlier in 2021: It revealed that a new company – Great British Railways (GBR) – will combine responsibility for rail infrastructure and train operations for the first time since rail privatisation in the 1990s

What HS2 could have learnt from HS1 - New Civil Engineer

Lessons learnt and approaches taken for HS1

Should the law lords be issuing Government backed guidance around where Force Majeure can be applied to Covid-19 claims?