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New version of Common Assessment Standard released by Build UK

Toni Sekinah — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 11:45:13 +0000

Industry body Build UK has released an updated version of the Common Assessment Standard (CAS), including new questions on firms’ building-safety capabilities. The CAS is an industry-agreed set of questions and corresponding assessment standards that can pre-qualify construction suppliers for projects. The updated version (V4)…

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Supreme Court turns the tables on collateral warranties

Contributor — Mon, 15 Jul 2024 11:43:02 +0000

Matthew Taylor is a partner and Aidan Steensma is of counsel at CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang The Supreme Court last week reversed 11 years of law in relation to the existence of a statutory right to adjudicate under collateral warranties. The right depends on…

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Guarded welcome for latest JCT 2024 rollout

Ben Vogel — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 14:25:36 +0000

The latest instalment of the Joint Contracts Tribunal (JCT) 2024 suite of contracts may have left key aspects of the Building Safety Act (BSA) unaddressed, experts have said. JCT included 13 documents in its Intermediate Building Contract (IBC) release on Wednesday (10 July). The intermediate…

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‘A significant reversal of the law’: Supreme Court rules on collateral warranties

Will Ing — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 16:17:53 +0000

The Supreme Court has ruled that most collateral warranties are not construction contracts and therefore are not subject to adjudication. On Monday (8 July) the five Supreme Court judges unanimously found that Abbey Healthcare, the tenant of a 65-bedroom care home in north London, could…

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Revealed: sharp drop in work at height safety investigations

Ian Weinfass — Tue, 02 Jul 2024 11:00:53 +0000

The number of Health and Safety Executive (HSE) investigations into falls from height in construction has dropped starkly, Construction News can reveal. Prospect, the union representing HSE inspectors, warned that the organisation has scaled back its investigations across all types and abolished its construction division.…

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Keltbray profit slips but orders rocket

Ian Weinfass — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 17:13:31 +0000

Keltbray has dropped back into the red, partly due to ongoing costs related to its case against the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) over the level of its fine for colluding over tender prices between 2013 and 2018. The multidisciplinary specialist swung to a pre-tax…

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Firm involved in high-risk buildings delay receives sanction

Ian Weinfass — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 11:23:05 +0000

A building control company which last month saw its high-risk building inspection work taken over by the Building Safety Regulator (BSR) has been sanctioned by a professional disciplinary panel, it has emerged. In results published last Wednesday (26 June), a disciplinary panel for the CIC…

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Contractor fined after delivery driver electrocuted by powerline

Ian Weinfass — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 14:32:34 +0000

A Reading-based contractor has been fined £30,000 after the death of a delivery driver. Father of four Levi Alleyne, known as Chunky, was electrocuted while delivering crushed concrete to a construction site where BBM Contracts was principal contractor. He died after the crane arm of…

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The importance of bonds when insolvencies are rife

Contributor — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 11:42:05 +0000

Kirsteen Milne is a partner at Brodies LLP For the past few years the insurance and bonds market has been hardening, but the headlines in mid-June that QBE Europe has pulled out of the construction market is a blow to contractors. This follows other big…

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Court rules on dispute between Bouygues subcontractors

Will Ing — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 11:26:46 +0000

The High Court has ordered a tier two contractor to pay £102,000 to a plumbing subcontractor following a dispute about works on a Bouygues-led university project in West Sussex. Mechanical, electrical and plumbing subcontractor J&B Hopkins was appointed by Bouygues as the subcontractor for the…

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