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Industry figures have warned that too little rail work is flowing through to suppliers, with grave potential consequences for jobs, delivery and safety. Dissatisfaction with spending through Network Rail’s Control Period 7 (CP7) has overflowed in a series of posts on social media. It comes after engineering services giant Renew last month blamed rail project […]

A procurement specialist has invited interest in two major deals potentially worth a combined total of £1.3bn. South East Consortium published official notices of its Decarbonisation Partnerships and Fire Remedial Works frameworks on Friday (14 February). The body said the agreements would provide routes to market for housing clients nationally over the next four years,

An insulation firm has launched a judicial review of the decision by Grenfell Tower’s council to ban it from future projects. Siderise Insulation Ltd, which manufactured some of the cavity barriers used on Grenfell Tower’s refurbishment in 2015-16, was banned from future work in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (RBKC) in December. RBKC

Jon Bootland is chief executive of the Passivhaus Trust Projects being built to the Passivhaus standard now account for approximately 1 per cent of all new homes under construction, according to figures the Passivhaus Trust has just released. This new data shows that the standard is now a mainstream option in the UK.  “We’re challenging

A Yorkshire council has launched a tender for a £1bn civils framework in northern and central England. Sheffield City Council, which is leading the tender process on behalf of Yorkshire-based procurement organisation YORhub, expects to appoint eight contractors. The framework will last for four years with an optional two-year extension. It will cover mainly civil

Three site managers from construction engineering firm Keltbray could face jail after being convicted of taking more than £600,000 in kickbacks. Arben Hysa, 56, bribed the Keltbray workers to secure contracts worth more than £15m through his company Tony Demolition Workers Ltd. Tony Demolitions Ltd (TDW) invoiced Keltbray for more than £15m from November 2013

Advanced training and certification, guidelines for stronger building codes and a community of professionals dedicated to creating a safer, more sustainable built environment More than half the world’s population (55 per cent) lives in cities and other urban centers, and the United Nations predicts that percentage will increase to 60 per cent by 2030 and

The government has been urged to introduce five-year budgets for England’s local road maintenance in the upcoming Spending Review. Four trade bodies wrote to chancellor Rachel Reeves calling for the reform to “maximise efficiency, drive innovation and provide long-term certainty for the industry”. The call came from the Association for Consultancy and Engineering (ACE), Mineral

Public safety could be put at risk because Network Rail does not fully understand its own structures such as bridges, a regulator has warned. The Office of Rail and Road (ORR) said it would bring in a consultant to investigate how the infrastructure operator assesses certain physical assets, as it was “not satisfied with progress

A council has acknowledged that it broke procurement law in a power-station demolition tender. Brown and Mason Group Limited brought the claim over multiple breaches of public procurement law and unfair treatment from Cardiff Council over the award of a contract to demolish the former Aberthaw Power Station. The contract, valued at approximately £30m, was