Author Archives: Ian Weinfass

A recent roundtable hosted by Construction News and IFS examined the key areas where artificial intelligence could boost the sector

Police investigating the Didcot Power Station disaster claim they are making “significant and meaningful progress”. Four workers died and five others were injured at the Oxfordshire facility, which was being prepared for demolition when part of the building collapsed on 23 February 2016. Michael Collings, 53, was found dead that…

What are the impacts of the recent Spending Review and 10-year infrastructure strategy?

Will the appointment of two ex-fire chiefs and removal of HSE make buildings safer?

Professional indemnity insurance premiums have only just started falling after their post-Grenfell peak. But some fear new building safety laws could spark another insurer backlash In the years after June 2017’s Grenfell Tower fire, many contractors found professional indemnity (PI) insurance difficult to obtain, or watched their premiums soar in…

The mortal danger to construction workers from silica dust is getting worse Stonemason Stuart Johnson would come home from work “absolutely covered in dust”, his wife Carol recalls. “It was just part and parcel of the job.” Stuart was unaware that the dust he was inhaling – silica – could…

Construction leaders are calling on clients to stop placing more risk on contractors by amending standard contracts. CN examines what drives the practice and how it might be reined in It’s not unusual for details of amendments to construction contracts to run to the same 100-page length as the original…

A roundtable hosted by CN and Gleeds gathered a group of experts to discuss the challenges of delivering more nuclear power in the UK. Topics included how to overcome pipeline uncertainty and inspiring the engineers of the future On the panel Graeme Bellingham, consultant, Bellingham Services Stuart Bridges, operations director…

Which projects are likely to have the biggest impact on the industry in the year ahead?  Tribeca Work on London’s largest purpose-built life sciences campus will ramp up in 2025. The first phase of the King’s Cross Tribeca project, which features state-of-the-art laboratories and workshops, saw VolkerFitzpatrick complete the 10,450…

Fifty years after the Health and Safety Executive was created, is it still fit for purpose today? When a pile of coal waste crashed down a hill onto a school and row of houses killing 116 children and 28 adults at Aberfan in October 1966, no one was prosecuted. Industrial…