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The Employment Relations (Flexible Working) Act 2023 (the Act) received Royal Assent on 20 July 2023 and is expected to come into force approximately one year after that,...
Most people in the construction and engineering industry are familiar with the term “international arbitration”.Β They understand that it is the most popular...
The construction industry will see major changes this year as the new building safety regime comes into play. The Building Safety Act 2022 (BSA) has laid the groundwork,...
When preparing a construction contract, it’s easy to give little thought to its dispute resolution provisions. You might use the unamended wording of the published...
In the construction industry, disputes can be resolved or decided in a number of different forums, including arbitration. The Arbitration Act has been around since 1996 a...
AHEAD of further unsettled weather has been predicated, experts in construction are calling for sector leaders to seriously rethink their practices or face heading for ca...
What a year it’s been for building safety.Β The construction sector has seen a significant amount of progress in this area over the last 12 months. To give some pers...
Industry experts have called for greater standardisation, collaboration and incentivisation to make Modern Methods of Construction (MMC) work at scale. Specialists from l...
Simon Rowland, Partner and Head of Construction and Engineering and Michelle Essen, Managing Associate at law firm Womble Bond Dickinson, take a look at the events of 202...
It’s widely accepted that Modern Methods of Construction represent the future of volume housebuilding and are a key part of the solution that will enable the sector...
A NEW online survey aimed at decision-makers within UK businesses has been launched by law firm Womble Bond Dickinson to gain insights on how Freeports will impact on the...
The Home Office has commenced a public consultation on how legislation, known as the Protect Duty, may be used to enhance the protection of publicly accessible locations...
In the wake of the Grenfell Tower fire tragedy, the government and construction sector have reconsidered many aspects of building safety and special consideration has bee...
The discussion around building safety, and particularly the replacement of combustible cladding, continues toΒ dominate the headlines for the construction sector. Last wee...
The construction industry was quick to adapt and carry on working in 2020, but it continues to struggle with labour levels. And this is a problem thatβs not going away an...
The UK construction industry manufactures and uses an incredible amount of materials each year, producing aroundΒ 2bn bricks, over 70 million sq m of concrete blocks and 3...
Against a backdrop of continued uncertainty due to the ongoing impact of the coronavirus pandemic, and as the UK continues its journey as the first ever nation to exit th...
Law firm Womble Bond Dickinson (WBD)Β has advised Northumberland County Council on the development of a multi-million-pound learning and leisure campus in Ponteland. The c...
The focus on Modern Methods of Construction, or MMC, sharpened throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, with many wondering whether the outbreak and the consequential delays to...
Last month Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced a circa Β£3 billion green investment plan, including the Green Homes Grant, as part of his Summer Economic Update. The UK Gover...
Law firm Womble Bond Dickinson (WBD) has advised Guildford Borough Council on the construction of a new bridge across the River Wey which will improve access to the town...
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...
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...
Energy from waste plants have been the subject of their fair share of disputes, one of the most recent being in relation to the development of a gasification plant at the...
The construction sector is fundamentally important to the UK economy. Often cited as the barometer of economic conditions, it contributes around Β£90bn and provides approx...
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,...
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,...
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-...
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...
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