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As per the guidance published by the Cabinet Office in late 2020, from 1 January 2021 the Find a Tender Service (FTS) is now in use...

HMRC is running workshops on the changes to IR35 which will come into force in April 2021, having been previously delayed...

The Construction Leadership Council has issued Site Operating Procedures Version 7...

Following the Grenfell Tragedy, one of the changes to improve the response to fire safety issues and to provide certainty to the housing market was the introduction of the EWS1 form...

The Chancery Lane Project released the third edition of its Climate Contract Playbook in September 2020...

In my previous blog I discussed the first five points of the new 10-point plan for a transition to net-zero...

Last month the Government released its 10-point plan for a “green industrial revolution”, which it hopes will boost green investments, create 250,000 jobs and offer £12bn of government funding over the next 10 years...

An early Christmas present for some yesterday when the MHCLG announced that the deadlines for the Building Safety Fund were being extended and that there is to be an immediate £30 million fund for building owners to install fire alarms in high rise buildings awaiting remediation...

A Project Bank Account (PBA) is a ring-fenced account from which payments are made directly and simultaneously by an employer to all the members of the supply chain on the contractually agreed dates...

One question that has arisen quite frequently in the last few months is how does MF/1 deal with covid?..

Modular build often provides for milestone payments. It can make sense – the modular contractor can, for instance, incur up-front costs in developing a prototype product which the paying party does not want to pay for until it can see something tangible...

The Government has announced that owners of flats in buildings without cladding will no longer need an EWS1 form to sell or re-mortgage their property following an agreement with the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, UK Finance and the Building Societies Association...