CITB has announced its plan to help employers recover from the impact of Coronavirus, including a substantial reduction in Levy bills. The Skills Stability Plan 2020-21 protects apprenticeships and provides direct funding to employers to adopt new ways of working needed in the wake of Covid-19. Employers...
The UK government has announced that it intends to extend the planning permission for construction sites that faced expiry because of the coronavirus pandemic. Planning permission usually expires after three years if work has not started onsite. Sites with consent that have an expiry date between...
The challenges faced by the construction industry as it deals with the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have been recognised with a four-week extension to the entry deadline for the British Construction Industry Awards. The deadline for entries to the awards, which is scheduled to take...
The Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB), the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) and the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) have jointly welcomed new measures from the Government which will ensure many more high-rise blocks will be fitted with sprinkler systems and safety signs. The...
Plans for a post-Covid-19 revival of the UK construction sector have been published today. The Construction Leadership Council’s Covid-19 Task Force has laid out proposals to secure the future of construction businesses nationwide, while setting the industry on a sustainable path towards recovery. The roadmap to recovery...