Legal is becoming increasingly important across global construction, infrastructure and industrial technology, influencing how projects are visualised, coordinated, delivered and managed over time.
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From planning and design to field execution and asset management, this topic sits at the centre of digital change across the built environment, helping teams improve visibility, accuracy, coordination and long-term performance.
The construction industry has been hit hard by COVID-19, with large numbers of sites shutting and many workers being furloughed β but over recent weeks we have seen those...
As the phased return to normality is likely to be rolled out over a few months, employers are going to have different needs and requirements in how to restart operations....
It’s not often that a construction lawyer has cause to consider the world of football, or not this construction lawyer in any event. We are told that we are living...
Transatlantic law firm Womble Bond Dickinson (WBD) has strengthened its construction and engineering practice in the UK with the appointment of Jessica Tresham who joins...
Changes to the off-payroll working rules – which will impact on the construction industry by placing additional obligations on medium and large developers and contr...
The construction industry has had a particularly difficult few years, with uncertainty around Brexit, high numbers of insolvencies, high-profile building safety concerns,...
It is reported that in 2019 a contractor entered into administration almost once every fortnight. Scunthorpe-based contractor Clugston, the Β£100m-turnover Simons Group, a...
The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) launched its “Cheating or Competing?” campaign this week, and specifically named the Construction Sector as one...
Two years since Peter Aldous MP brought his private members bill to Westminster, some 26 years since the recommendations in the Latham report and still no solution to the...
If you mentioned construction tax changes last year, the focus was mainly on the construction VAT reverse charge (which has been postponed to October this year). However,...
A global infrastructure survey by international law firm Pinsent Masons has revealed that there is still a lack of understanding of technology across the sector, which is...
It’s been yet another busy year for construction, with BIM developments, greater use of modern methods of construction, looming Brexit, increased insolvencies, buil...
For the Construction industry tax has been something that has been discussed a lot over the last few months – even before the UK General Election was announced. Mai...
In the past five years, insolvency rates in the construction industry have increased more quickly than in other industries across the UK. This article considers the commo...
In June 2019 the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government (MHCLG) issued a consultation paper entitled Building a Safer Future: Proposals for Reform of the...
You have probably heard about VAT changing for the construction industry later this year, but some of the information about those changes can be very complex for non-tax-...
It is 50 years since the riots at the Stonewall Inn in New York sparked the international Pride movement, 50 years since people stood up and said enough is enough to the...
European law firm Fieldfisher has won a hard fought stand-alone competition case in the Competition Appeal Tribunal for its client Achilles Information Limited (“Ac...
Data is big business. An article from May 2017 in The Economist described the dependency of the global economy on data flows. Whether these are being used to develop A.I....
Alternative dispute resolution, also known as ADR, is often used in construction and professional negligence disputes. In early December a working group of the Civil Just...
During the course of his Budget speech on 29 October 2018 the Chancellor, Philip Hammond, said: “I have never signed off a PFI contract as Chancellor and I can conf...
Things never stand still in the construction industry and so, as expected, we saw a lot of change in 2018 from the point of view of legal and industry changes and other d...
βRe-thinkingβ the industry is a common topic of debate in construction at the minute, with βinnovationβ and βcollaborationβ being popular buzzwords. Following the Hackitt...
Following on from the tragedy of the Grenfell Tower fire on 14 June 2017, where the fire breached compartmentation of the block resulting in the loss of 72 lives and many...
The Well-managed Highway Infrastructure Code (WMHI) was published in October 2016, but its two year transition period has now ended. The code was touted as a review of ex...
Have you noticed that every few months, there is a headline in the news about modern slavery and that quite often it is related to the construction industry? It is no gre...
In nearly six months’ time, on 29 March 2019 at 11pm UK-time to be more exact, the UK is expected to leave the EU. The construction industry has already started to...
The UK Met office issues an Amber weather warning and tells Britons to βstay out of the sunβ during this summer’s heatwave. As temperatures reach near record highs...
Last year, North Midland Building Ltd v Cyden Homes Ltd provoked much discussion as to whether the prevention principle should take precedence over freedom of contract, i...
In our recent review of the second edition of the CIC BIM protocol (Second Helpings) we noted references to an Asset Information Model (AIM), which had been introduced in...
UK commercial law firm, Al Bawardi Critchlow, today launched a range of legal services specifically designed to enable smaller contractors and subcontractors in the const...
The inclusion of deleterious or prohibited material clauses in both building contracts and professional appointment documents is widespread within the construction indust...
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