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CLC launches Construct Zero website at BMF Sustainability Forum 9 June, 2021 SHARE The website provides key details on Construct Zero including governance, consultation, events programme, a package of supporting resources for industry together with information on how companies can get involved with the programme as a Business Champion or Business Partner or both.
The Construction Leadership Council used the inaugural Builders Merchants Federation s Sustainability Forum to launch its new Construct Zero website, which will provide a single hub for all information relating to the construction industry’s change programme in the Race to net Zero.
Hannah Vickers, CEO of the Association for Consultancy and Engineering and the CLC’s Construct Zero lead, announced the website to delegates from the building materials supply chain attending the virtual meeting.
Changes outlined in the Williams-Shapps Plan for Rail will make it easier for contractors to deliver projects thanks to clearer planning and better relationships, according to industry experts.
The publication of the new plan, off the back of the long-delayed Williams Rail Review, detailed a new arms-length public body similar to Transport for London, called Great British Railways. The body will oversee both track and services across the network, meaning it will own the infrastructure, collect fare revenue, run and plan the network, and set most fares and timetables.
WSP managing director for transport and infrastructure Charlie Hodgson said the plan “provides the opportunity for a joined-up strategy”, by bringing track and train operations “under a single guiding mind”. He said the change would improve the planning of maintenance and enhancement work on train tracks, and make engineering works simpler to plan. He added that Great British Railways would provide “clear li
Secretary of state for business, energy and industrial strategy, Kwasi Kwarteng, has publicly recognised the construction industry’s contribution to achieving net zero.
Speaking at this week’s virtual Business 7 Summit (or ‘B7’), which welcomes around 60 CEO’s from leading UK and global companies across the G7 countries and feeds into the G7 Summit programme, Kwarteng set out his priorities and views on business leadership, highlighting that over 58 UK construction businesses have already signed-up to Race to Zero, including firms such as Lendlease and Multiplex.
The secretary of state also highlighted the UK’s leading consultancy businesses working in the built environment, who have today (10.5.21) collectively committed to offering ambitious design options and advice that are fully compatible with net zero outcomes to their clients.
Scotland’s public land is being sold off to housing developers building luxury homes and sidelining local people, we can reveal. Several communities told The Ferret they were misled or ignored by housebuilders and public bodies on development plans. Developers also allegedly breached planning rules without consequence, while councils scrapped local plans – including a healthcare hub for the elderly – to allow for new developments, sometimes on greenbelt land. Nearly £70 million of land was bought from Scotland’s councils, universities and NHS boards by CALA homes between 2014 and 2019, according to data obtained by The Ferret through freedom of information law. This amounts to 12 per cent of the £500m of public land sold in recent years.