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The Infrastructure and Projects Authority (IPA) has appointed Helen Campbell as its new director of strategy, performance and assurance. As the head of the governments project-delivery system, Campbell (pictured) will be responsible for driving cross-government and industry collaboration, as well as pushing improvements in project delivery, the IPA said. The authority aims to achieve this with better benchmarking data and by gathering independent assessments on project delivery. IPA chief execu...

The consultation by the Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) on its proposed levy for the period from 2022 to 2025 has now closed. The CITB is finalising its levy proposals before opening a period of consensus from 4 June 2021 to 15 August 2021 during which construction businesses will be able to comment. The CITB levy applies to all employers "engaged wholly or mainly in construction industry activities" and is used by the CITB to ensure that construction employers have the skilled wo...

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The new report from a coalition led by Skanska has criticised vague carbon-reduction targets, which could undermine the construction industrys efforts to reach net-zero emissions.  The report, titled Is our carbon wallet empty?, claimed there are wide variances in forecasting carbon usage and called for common data standards, reporting structures and changes in design. The study takes the National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) to task for not including any assessment of the carbon generated...

Kingspan CEO Gene Murtagh Materials company Kingspan has announced an investment in H2 Green Steel, which manufactures steel using hydrogen. The insulation specialist is investing an undisclosed sum in the company and said in a statement that it expects to be a single-digit minority shareholder. Swedish-based H2 Green Steel is carrying out an equity fundraising round. H2 Green Steel’s production process replaces coke and coal with green hydrogen to achieve an almost totally CO2-free steel pro...

Tuesday, 6 April, 2021 - 10:45 Ongoing works at Masar - one of the most qualitative development projects in Makkah. (Asharq Al-Awsat) Riyadh - Bandar al-Mosalam The Saudi Shura Council asked the Expenditure Efficiency and Projects Authority to work with the National Center for Performance Measurement (Adaa) to study the inclusion of the Expenditure Efficiency Index within the government entity’s performance indicators. During i...

Make Net Zero a primary objective of all public sector investments, not just a nice-to-have In last week’s Budget, the Chancellor announced £15bn in green bonds to help finance the transition to ‘Net Zero’ by 2050. PA Consulting asks: is this sufficient? PA A potential new coalmine in Cumbria hit the headlines recently, which seemed completely at odds with these commitments, yet councillors said there was no good reason to reject the application. We can confidently expect scrutiny of inv...

£12bn capitalisation confirmed for Leeds-based Infrastructure Bank Creation of the UK’s first Infrastructure Bank will unite the private sector and local government in a shared mission to accelerate investment in the country’s infrastructure, according to chancellor Rishi Sunak. During his Budget speech, Sunak discussed the importance of rebuilding the economy post-Covid and said: “This future economy won’t be created in any one Budget but today we lay the foundations. Our future econo...

Clyde nuclear base workers to strike as row emerges over its future WORKERS at the Clyde nuclear base are set to strike after what a union said was "overwhelming" support for action in a pay and conditions dispute. Unite said its membership at the Coulport and Faslane naval bases on the Clyde are set to take part in rolling industrial action after a ballot of its 1000-strong membership. Babcock, which owns the Coulport and Faslane naval bases on the Clyde,  said it was "disappointed" ...

Excessive in the extreme: Union takes legal action over Clyde nuclear base political ban LEGAL action is being taken against Clyde nuclear base owners over a ban on political activity. Unite union leaders are angry over what they call an instruction by Babcock Marine made to its workforce that they should not be involved in any process which could be described as political ‘lobbying’. The concerns are that it may distort the Ministry of Defences new Future Maritime Support Programme ...