1. Industry meets to assess impact of CSCS Green card shake-up
Industry representatives were set to meet with training organisations to get to grips with the ramifications and workings of the shake up of the CSCS Green card scheme. Read more…
2. Kier, Carillion, Balfour Beatty to ‘trailblaze’ apprenticeship reform
Balfour Beatty, Kier, Carillion and Laing O’Rourke are part of a new industry coalition that hopes to become a government “Trailblazer” in reforming apprenticeships for the modern economy. Read more…
3. Hansford: We need to reduce carbon emissions by 30% by 2017
The Construction Leadership Council has set new interim targets for the over-arching goals in the Construction 2025 industrial strategy, challenging the industry to achieve tough cuts in carbon, costs and delivery times by 2017 and 2020. The government’s chief construction adviser Peter Hansford said the new targets should add immediacy to the long-term challenge. Read more…
4. CIOB takes ownership of ‘construction management’
CIOB chief executive Chris Blythe described the creation of the Chartered Construction Manager designation as “probably the best thing the institute has done for the industry”. Read more…
5. BAM JV on troubled Brussels Nato HQ includes BAM UK advisers
BAM Construct UK is part of the joint venture team building the controversial Nato headquarters building in Belgium, which has run into serious financial difficulties last month and was alleged to be on the brink of insolvency. Read more…
6. Fees for intervention gets a one star review
Ashfords’ Richard Voke on what the HSE’s Triennial Review says about the controversial Fees for Intervention initiative. Read more…
7. University of the West of England offers BIM Masters
The University of the West of England is to launch a new postgraduate MSc in Building Information Modelling in conjunction with its industry partners – architect Stride Treglown and contractor BAM Construct. Read more…
8. EU votes ‘yes’ to BIM-friendly procurement shake-up
A “yes” vote for new EU procurement rules should help embed BIM into UK public projects and open up opportunities for UK tech-savvy firms abroad, industry leaders claim. Read more…
9. Revised government stats show 33% decline in apprenticeship starts
New government statistics published last week show a steep decline in construction apprenticeship starts and completions – and completely rewrite the statistics published this time last year. Read more…
10. Flooding needs big ideas: five solutions
If we are to take the potential impacts of climate change seriously, we need bigger solutions to flooding, writes Peter Brett Associates’ Ben Mitchell. Read more…
