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Stuart Byles is director at fit-out and refurbishment contractor Pexhurst   The Building Safety Act (BSA) 2022 has now been in force for almost a year. However, the release of the JCT Design and Build Contract 2024 in April has highlighted a significant disconnect between standard-form construction contracts and the comprehensive…

Kelly Boorman is national head of construction and partner at RSM UK Given the government’s stated priorities to accelerate housing delivery and drive economic growth, it’s no surprise that last week’s Autumn Budget announced further plans to stimulate construction activity and improve social housing provision. The allocation of an additional…

Parm Bhangal is managing director of Bhangals Construction Consultants and My Build Estimate During and following the pandemic, the construction industry was hit by a perfect storm of factors that it is struggling to bounce back from. In fact, 2024 has seen 4,310 UK construction firms become insolvent, according to…

Allan Wilen is economics director at Glenigan The autumn 2024 Budget was hotly anticipated across the entire construction sector, especially as the election of a Labour government in July did not result in the sudden growth spurt some may have hoped for. Indeed, we found the value of construction projects…

John Hayes is managing partner of employment and regulatory specialist law firm Constantine Law The Labour Government’s Employment Rights Bill (ERB) was published, as promised, within 100 days of Labour winning power, on 10 October. The ERB, when finished, will amount to the biggest changes in the world of work…

Gavin Mason is an operations director at multidisciplinary consultancy Pick Everard It’s been a gloomy time for the humble taxpayer in the run-up to this year’s Autumn Statement. Almost every day the chancellor appears to have dipped her toe into the waters to test another tax proposal in the press…

Tristan Hughes is business unit manager at water-services company OSSO There has been little discussion of how to manage the environmental risks posed by the unprecedented expansion of power grids envisaged in the UK. Long-distance, high-voltage transmission grids are set to connect cities to remotely located renewable power sources. However,…

Sinead Cuthill is an associate and Dan Coppel is a partner at Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath Merger and acquisition activity in the UK construction sector has declined from its peak in 2022, frustrating would-be buyers and sellers, as well as the bankers, brokers, lawyers and accountants who service the…

Jozefa Lewis is sustainability and wellbeing manager at ODGroup As we all know, the construction industry has a carbon problem. In the UK, the built environment produces more than 10 million metric tons of carbon per year, making it one of the most significant polluters of the major industries. At…

Kieran Bradley is director of architecture at consultancy Pick Everard As a society, much is made of our ability to repurpose where possible. Buildings are no different, and in recent years we’ve come a long way in making our construction choices more net-zero ambitious. Now, Labour is pledging to build…