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Building News

Escalating delays hit £2bn school building programme

Launch of contracts likely to be put back after scheme is swamped with high volume of bids for funding

Laing O'Rourke's head of UK south moved to HR

The change means two top jobs in Laing O’Rourke UK combined into one

Green light for Sheppard Robson's £750m Fitzrovia scheme

Developer offers council extra £2m for affordable housing

Glasgow council approves Games village pension fund plan

Council to act as guarantor under plan by a private-sector consortium to make up £35m funding gap

Construction News

Ed Davey replaces Chris Huhne as new energy secretary

The government has confirmed that Ed Davey has been named as the new energy and climate change secretary, following Chris Huhne’s resignation this morning.

Oakworth Joinery goes bust

UK’s largest independent window and door maker falls victim to downturn

Construction professionals using BIM up 18pc since 2010

The number of construction professionals using BIM has more than doubled in two years – but 4 out of 5 people believe the industry doesn’t yet understand its meaning.

Travis Perkins says OFT will investigate Toolstation merger

Builders merchant tells investors there is “no basis” for the probe

Contract Journal - Business and Finance

Ex-Pierse police job runs into more trouble

A subcontractor on the troubled £10.7m construction of a police facility in Cheshire has been forced to scrap materials worth £35,000 for just £80.

Civils sector faces 'thousands' more job cuts

Thousands more jobs could be lost in the civils sector amid a worsening climate, the Civil Engineering Contractors Association (CECA) has warned.

Brookfield sets sights on returning first UK profit

Wembley builder Brookfield Construction (UK) expects to deliver a profit for the first time this year after years in the red.

Persimmon 'strong' after increase in forward sales

Persimmon has told the stock market that its financial position is “strong” after reporting an increase in forward sales for next year.

Denaploy News

The Expectations of Quality in Documentation are Increasing

Talk to any old time project managers about O&M manuals and you get the same response; a box ticking exercise in which it is only by the most extreme luck that you will find anything useful when you need it. As we move into the digital world everybody has much higher expectations.

Home User Guides

It is not only the O&M manuals that are going digital. It is the user guides for apartments too. The requirements of companies such as Paradigm are increasingly to provide detailed bespoke manuals for each apartment.

O&M manuals for clients with large property portfolios

Clients with large property portfolios are increasingly determined to take control of the documentation relating to their properties and store them in data base silos with a common access and structure

What are residual hazards?

Since CDM 2007 there has been an increasing emphasis on providing a residual risks section in the health and safety Manual. Some sub-contractors find this particularly confusing because of the apparent similarity with the risk assessment that they are required to make before they start work.

 

Philip Poynter

CALLS FOR HSE ACTION AFTER CRANE OIL LEAK DEATHS

Father demands HSE answers after FAI hears of ”box ticking” maintenance  The BBC has reported that Barry Copeland, whose wife and children died when their car

CLIENT PROSECUTED OVER FRAGILE ROOF FALL

Company failed to plan for high risk work on fragile dairy shed roof Martin Dairy Ltd of St Mabyn has been prosecuted after a self-employed workman was severely injured after

REPORTING INJURIES AND DANGEROUS OCCURENCES GUIDE

Free detailed guide on new RIDDOR reporting arrangements published by HSE HSE has published a detailed guide to the updated Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences

HIGHWAYS AGENCY WARN OF TEMPERATURE ‘HIDDEN DANGERS’

Be prepared to leave your vehicle after breakdown… whatever the weather! The Highways Agency (HA) is reminding people of the need to be prepared when they set out on