Construction Law

MARCH 14, 2025

The Planning and Infrastructure Bill has received a cautiously warm welcome to its proposals designed to speed up planning and reduce obstacles to delivering infrastructure. To read more of this and every other news story on this site, please log in with your Construction Law membership account details.

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Construction Law

OCTOBER 18, 2024

The inaugural meeting of the new British Infrastructure Taskforce was convened by Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves today (18 October), bringing together major financial companies and government in a bid to increase business confidence in making UK infrastructure investments. See the panel to the right.

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Construction Law

APRIL 3, 2025

The Government has formally launched the National Infrastructure and Service Authority (NISTA), a new body that aims to accelerate delivery of major projects by bringing strategy and delivery into the same organisation. See the panel to the right. Subscribers to the printed magazine get access to the entire Construction law website.

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Job Order Contracting

APRIL 8, 2025

A annual update cycle does not account for “real-time” local market fluctuations, which can lead to inaccuracies, especially in the volatile market situation so prevalent today. Additionaly, 4BT cost data is updated quarterly versus creating “annual cost books”, a common practice among traditional cost data providers.

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Job Order Contracting

MAY 21, 2022

It’s beyond time for improved leadership, competence, and accountability. GAO-22-104481 – DEFENSE INFRASTRUCTURE DOD Should Better Manage Risks Posed by Deferred Facility Maintenance. References: GAO-19-57 – FEDERAL REAL PROPERTY ASSET MANAGEMENT Agencies Could Benefit from Additional Information on Leading Practices.

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Construction Law

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

A dedicated Parliamentary committee should be established to provide oversight on major infrastructure projects being pursued by the Scottish Government where the project is likely to run over multiple parliamentary sessions, a Scottish Government committee recommends. See the panel to the right.

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Construction Law

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Hopes for a substantial rise in infrastructure investment have been boosted by news from Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves that she will alter fiscal rules to make a potential £50 billion available. To read more of this and every other news story on this site, please log in with your Construction Law membership account details.

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Construction Dive

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Amazon, Google and Microsoft accounted for more than three-quarters of infrastructure capital expenditures in Q3 2024, according to Dell’Oro Group.

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Construction Business Owner

JULY 25, 2023

Your company operates with specific infrastructure that includes processes, culture and priorities. I practiced in public accounting for 18 years, specializing with contractors, and I oversaw 125 audits and reviews each year before I sold my practice.

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Construction Business Owner

JUNE 23, 2023

Your company operates with specific infrastructure that includes processes, culture and priorities. I practiced in public accounting for 18 years, specializing with contractors, and I oversaw 125 audits and reviews each year before I sold my practice.

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Construction Business Owner

MAY 17, 2022

According to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), in 2019, construction accounted for about one in five worker fatalities in private industry, despite construction representing just 8% of U.S. trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. Reducing worker injuries has taken on additional urgency following the $1.2

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Construction Law

OCTOBER 11, 2024

The Treasury has announced that a new National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority (NISTA) to replace the National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) and the Major Projects Authority (MPA) will be launched in Spring next year. See the panel to the right.

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Job Order Contracting

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

I can dynamically track every dollar in my budget and forecast critical costs with real time data from the field, while staying in sync with the accounting system. Facilities and other physical infrastructure construction, repair, renovation, or maintenance cost management is impossible without the following basics.

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Viewpoint Construction Technology

MAY 22, 2018

Recent focal shifts in Australia’s construction sector, as well as a rising population, indicate a coming sea change in infrastructure spending and development. million jobs this year alone, which will account for roughly 10 per cent of the country’s total employment. Changes in Australia’s Labour Market. Download the Full Report.

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Construction Law

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

To read more of this and every other news story on this site, please log in with your Construction Law membership account details. If you don't have an account, you can get free access to the news on this site and receive a free newsletter onFridays by creating a Newsletter account. See the panel to the right.

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HardHatChat

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

The last thing your grocery store construction project needs is a logistical nightmare because proper cart storage space has not been accounted for. It’s best to start on infrastructure for the refrigeration section early. Reuse existing infrastructure when possible. Start on the frozen foods early.

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Job Order Contracting

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

There is overwhelming statistical significance and audit reporting that the cost estimates used to for physical infrastructure decision-making are highly and systematically misleading. ACFs are not a defensible method for adjusting for location-based and time-based variances in construction costs.

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Building Radar

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

California is experiencing a construction boom in 2024, driven by substantial investments in infrastructure, renewable energy, and urban development. As the largest state economy in the United States, California is focusing on enhancing its infrastructure to meet the growing demands of its population.

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Job Order Contracting

OCTOBER 17, 2023

For decades attention has failed to focus on the need for continuous, competent, and accountable leadership and the effects upon finances, reputations, relationships, communities, and overall organizational missions. Physical Infrastructure Project Management impacts environmental, financial, organizational, and community sustainability.

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Job Order Contracting

MAY 6, 2022

Achieving and Maintaining Excellence Requires – Collaboration, Team Alignment and Tracking, Accountability, Clarity of Goals, Problem Solving, Fiscal Transparency, Robust Process, Common/Shared Data Environment, Levelling Up Team Knowledge.

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Job Order Contracting

MARCH 21, 2022

There is overwhelming statistical significance and audit reporting that the cost estimates used to for physical infrastructure decision-making are highly and systematically misleading. Variances in labor, material, equipment, productivity, and means and methods cannot be accounted for by simply using a cost factor. References.

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Construction Law

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Four root causes have been identified by the National Infrastructure Commission as being behind systemic failures of cost management on major infrastructure projects in a new report ‘Cost drivers of major infrastructure projects in the UK’. See the panel to the right.

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Job Order Contracting

JULY 24, 2023

Zero credible cost visibility and inability to enable cost management… another instance of Government attempt to compete with the private sector and lack of capable and continuous accountable leadership. Real property owner capacity, commitment, and accountability are fundamental requirements. Howieson, V. Koopman, J.

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Construction Law

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

To read more of this and every other news story on this site, please log in with your Construction Law membership account details. If you don't have an account, you can get free access to the news on this site and receive a free newsletter onFridays by creating a Newsletter account. See the panel to the right.

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Job Order Contracting

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Unless the fundamental root causes are addressed, there is little hope of for ending the endemic economic and environment waste associated with building and other forms of physical infrastructure. million in rework alone, accounting for 14 percent of all rework performed in 2020. References: Watanabe-Crockett, Lee. Global Citizen.

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Job Order Contracting

JANUARY 13, 2023

There’s no shortage of technology marketed to “help” AEC companies and real property, however, the void of leadership and accountability and the will to move beyond archaic, failed processes is overwhelming. Thiis is a fact that few software vendors want you to know. Not Rocket Science. The only barrier is the will to do so.

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Viewpoint Construction Technology

MAY 7, 2019

Accounting for all of the materials tickets produced by aggregate and lumber haulers can be a challenge. After researching a solution to one of his most vulnerable time- and cost-sapping areas, Sanson found that using the Spectrum solution streamlined the flow of data into and out of accounting and billing departments.

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Construction Law

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

A working paper on proposed planning reforms has been released by the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government to accompany the working paper on the governments Ten-year Infrastructure Strategy (see Editors Comment). See the panel to the right.

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Construction Law

JUNE 14, 2024

The Association for Consultancy and Engineering (ACE) has called on the new government to create a Department of Infrastructure to ensure that investment is strategic and prioritised. To read more of this and every other news story on this site, please log in with your Construction Law membership account details.

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Construction Law

APRIL 3, 2025

Government Project Delivery and the National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority (NISTA) have launched The Teal Book as part of a drive to transform project delivery across the public sector. To read more of this and every other news story on this site, please log in with your Construction Law membership account details.

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Construction Law

JULY 12, 2024

Water regulator Ofwat proposes cuts to water company’s infrastructure investment plans over the next five years by some £16 billion, at the same time as announcing that new funding models will be used in procurement of what is still a giant programme of £88 billion. See the panel to the right.

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ENR Construction

AUGUST 22, 2024

With the compounding effects of more frequent and intense storms, infrastructure investments—despite recent historic levels in infrastructure funding—must take into account where they'll get the most bang for the buck.

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Construction Law

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

The UK needs to do more to achieve its buildings and infrastructure carbon reduction goals and a more comprehensive sustainability approach is needed from government, says the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors in a new report. Policy uncertainty and a lack of government incentives are main barriers to progress, says RICS.

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Construction Law

APRIL 12, 2024

The Scottish Government’s carbon assessment of its flagship £26 billion infrastructure investment plan has been slammed for failing to provide ‘concrete evidence’ of how it will deliver the emissions cuts needed to hit net zero targets. See the panel to the right.

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Viewpoint Construction Technology

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

One of the biggest challenges that contractors’ finance and accounting departments face is keeping up with all of the ever-changing tax regulations, incentives and procedures. On the latter point, Dreyfus shared some steps contractors can take to remain successful in tough times: Properly prepare your company’s infrastructure.

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Construction Law

JULY 26, 2024

Long-term lack of investment in infrastructure has been blamed by Environment Agency chief Alan Lovell for poor performance by water companies. To read more of this and every other news story on this site, please log in with your Construction Law membership account details. See the panel to the right.

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Construction Law

MARCH 14, 2025

The National Audit Office (NAO) has called on the Treasury and the new National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority (NISTA) to improve how they categorise and define major projects according to their risk and strategic importance. See the panel to the right.

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