The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) did not act improperly when it exclude a non-compliant bid from a framework tender process, the Technology and Construction Court has ruled in a procurement dispute. 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 on Fridays by creating a Newsletter account. See the panel to the right. Subscribers to the printed magazine get access to the entire Constructi ..read more

Failure to properly address embodied carbon emissions in the government’s Future Homes Standard and Future Buildings Standard consultation could leave resulting legislation open to legal challenge, the Institution of Structural Engineers (IStructE) has warned. 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 on Fridays by creating a Newsletter account. See the panel to the right. Subscribers to the ..read more

The High Court has allowed a judicial review of Housing Secretary Michael Gove’s policy of preventing councils from setting higher energy efficiency standards for new housing than national benchmarks. 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 on Fridays by creating a Newsletter account. See the panel to the right. Subscribers to the printed magazine get access to the entire Construction law w ..read more

Environmental campaigners have been granted a hearing over an application for judicial review over climate change plans. 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 on Fridays by creating a Newsletter account. See the panel to the right. Subscribers to the printed magazine get access to the entire Construction law website ..read more

Transport Scotland will use new, in-house terms and conditions for the Tay Crossing to Ballinluig project, part of the much delayed £3.7 billion A9 Dualling programme. 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 on Fridays by creating a Newsletter account. See the panel to the right. Subscribers to the printed magazine get access to the entire Construction law website ..read more

Government housing and regeneration agency Homes England should be authorised to take more risk and to ‘be bolder’ in playing the role of master developer on more large regeneration and placemaking schemes, says a Cabinet Office Review. 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 on Fridays by creating a Newsletter account. See the panel to the right. Subscribers to the printed magazine get acc ..read more

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. 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 on Fridays by creating a Newsletter account. See the panel to the right. Subscribers to the printed magazine get acc ..read more

The UK government has only achieved three out of ten major commitments it made in its British Energy Security Strategy in the two years since it was published, according to analysis from the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU). 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 on Fridays by creating a Newsletter account. See the panel to the right. Subscribers to the printed magazine get acce ..read more

Delays in contacting parties that may have been criticised in the Grenfell Inquiry’s draft report mean that publication has been delayed again. 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 on Fridays by creating a Newsletter account. See the panel to the right. Subscribers to the printed magazine get access to the entire Construction law website ..read more

Network Rail is promising greater collaboration with contractors appointed to its £4 billion Train Control Systems Framework. A partnership type approach is to be adopted and there is a new way of selecting companies to be awarded work under the framework. 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 on Fridays by creating a Newsletter account. See the panel to the right. Subscribers to the prin ..read more