The Building Safety Act 2022 (“BSA 2022”) together with subsequent secondary legislation, introduced a new regulatory regime for Higher-Risk Buildings (“HRB”) in England. Part of the new regime is a requirement for a ‘Golden Thread’ of information.
On 27 August 2024, the Construction Leadership Council (“CLC”) published “Delivering the Golden Thread: Guidance for
The Court of Appeal handed down its Judgment last week overturning the decision of the Technology and Construction Court (TCC) in relation to the proper construction of termination provisions in a JCT 2016 Design & Build form of Contract.
In February 2019 Hexagon and Providence entered into an amended JCT Design & Build 2016 contract (for the construction of
Whilst school is out for the summer, school related construction work certainly isn’t. The summer holiday period provides the perfect opportunity for construction works to be carried out to take advantage of the empty corridors and abandoned playing fields.
Local Authorities (“LAs”) have a statutory obligation to ensure efficient primary, secondary, and further education, often meaning they must build and
With a new government avowing to ‘get Britain building’, the construction industry has cast a keen eye over the contents of the first King’s Speech of this parliament and will be thinking of what comes after.
We look at the key pledges in housebuilding and infrastructure and what might happen next.
Arguably taking centre stage was the promise of
The Supreme Court handed down a significant and much-anticipated judgment for the construction industry on Tuesday in the case of Abbey Healthcare (Mill Hill) Ltd v Augusta 2008 LLP (formerly Simply Construct UK LLP) on whether a collateral warranty is a construction contract under the Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996 (the Act).
The court decided unanimously that the
