by Clair Mooney | 10 Nov, 2022 | Main News Feed
The CICV has produced a new open source guidance document, which is now available to download on the CICV website. Aimed at employers, it gives advice on case management of COVID in the workplace.
FIS Chief Executive Iain McIlwee commented:
FIS is a member of CICV on behalf of our community and this advice is a great example of why. COVID hasn’t gone away, but as employers we still need to manage cases and wider risk – whilst framed for Scotland it is a great reference source for wherever you are in the UK.
by Clair Mooney | 9 Nov, 2022 | Main News Feed
To mark World Quality Week, at the FIS North West Regional Conference in Manchester today, FIS relaunched the FIS PPP Risk Register, a key tool in the FIS Product Process People (PPP) Quality framework.
The FIS PPP Risk Register gives people a structured framework to interrogate project risk based on a assessment of severity and probability of a risk occurring. The standard scoring system helps members to identify any unacceptable high risks and ensure management strategies are put in place to address. The tool also helps a management team to assign risk correctly and contains a range of links to additional tools and information that will help support specific risk management.
FIS CEO Iain McIlwee said: “A large part of our work centres on interrogating and helping members to manage day to day problems they may encounter, risks. This is a moving and evolving space. Our tool helps us to ensure that we are learning lessons and that members are alert to where problems may appear,
Risk is unescapable in any construction project, but at times we can feel so beset by risk that we become indifferent to it. It is vital that as an industry we get better at measuring, managing and mitigating. This simple tool is built on the premise that if you can’t measure it or didn’t think about it, you can’t manage it. It aims to help people to score risks. The underlying principle is that is that we can all learn from our own mistakes, but it is better learn together and avoid learning the hard way wherever possible.”
The FIS PPP Risk Register is available for members to download here
To find out more about World Quality Week, click here
by Clair Mooney | 8 Nov, 2022 | Main News Feed
CITB has funded the Innovation Driven Procurement Project to offer 40 SME and micro‐businesses free training, coaching and mentoring to help improve productivity and increase procurement opportunities. Businesses interested in participating must sign up by the end of November.
by Clair Mooney | 8 Nov, 2022 | Contractual and Legal, Lens Blog, Main News Feed
FIS Consultant Len Bunton continues with the theme of getting paid, and what options are open to FIS members. These monthly Blogs are designed to help FIS Members avoid common traps and build on our focus on collective experience.
My Blogs to date have attempted to share some ideas about improving the commercial management of your contracts. In other words, instilling best practice into the way FIS members run and manage their business. What I have endeavored to suggest is ways to ensure you get paid on time, and what you are due.
This time I want to talk about two issues. First the Conflict Avoidance Process, or CAP and Adjudication…
by Clair Mooney | 2 Nov, 2022 | Main News Feed
As part of its desire to increase engagement with business leaders across the sector, CLC is to launch an open recruitment competition to select four industry sponsors (one for each of our priority workstreams- below).
1. Building Safety
2. Net Zero and Biodiversity
3. People and Skills
4. Next Generation Delivery
Each sponsor will be asked to undertake the following, working closely with the CLC Co-Chair, Deputy Co-Chair, Workstream groups and BEIS officials:
1. Lead and oversee their respective workstream, working closely with various groups and sub-groups to develop and deliver the strategy to the agreed goals and timetable.
2. To act as industry spokesperson and champion for the relevant workstream to the sector, media and key stakeholders, working closely with the priority and sector industry leads.
3. To utilise their influence, personal and peer networks to support delivery of the priority, and effect change.
4. To offer constructive challenge to workstream leads, ensuring policy development addresses sector business requirements.
Application Process
Prospective applicants are asked to submit their CV and a covering letter (maximum 500 words) setting out their relevant skills and experience together with which role they are applying for to Construction.Enquiries@beis.gov.uk by close Monday 7 November. Your application will be assessed by CLC/BEIS officials.
Timetable
• 19 Oct: Applications open
• 14 Nov: Closing Date for applications
• w/c 21,28 November and 5 December: Interviews with short-listed applicants
• Early Dec: Successful candidates informed
• w/c 12 December: Successful candidates publicly announced
These roles are unpaid with appointments for a fixed-term basis of three years.
The time commitment for each role will include:
• Attending CLC monthly board meetings (1 hour)
• Policy engagement/communications (time to be agreed with the workstream lead)
• Chair workstream meetings and co-ordinate activities (4 hours per month)
If you have any further questions on the roles, please contact Stuart Young on Stuart.Young@beis.gov.uk
by Clair Mooney | 31 Oct, 2022 | Main News Feed
The Energy Bill Relief Scheme (EBRS) will provide energy bill relief for non-domestic customers in Great Britain.
It applies to all businesses, including those in the construction sector. The Scheme covers energy use for 6 months from 1 October 2022 to 31 March 2023. The EBRS applies to all contracts signed after 1 December 2021, for the supply of energy during the period covered by the Scheme. Contracts signed before 1 December 2021 will not have been affected by the recent rise in wholesale prices, so will not be eligible for support under the Scheme.
The latest guidance can be found on GOV.UK here. This includes information on eligibility, how the Scheme works, how your bill will be reduced and the planned review.
There is a similar scheme for Northern Ireland, providing a comparable level of support. Find out more about how the Northern Ireland scheme here.
The Government has published an Energy Bills Support Factsheet. This provides further details of the support available for businesses and non-domestic consumers with energy bills, as well as details of other policy measures being taken to ensure energy security and affordability.
The Construction Leadership Council CLC has pulled together some useful information to ensure businesses in the construction sector are clear on and able to access any available support.
To access a useful Energy Bill Relief Scheme FAQ produced by the CLC click here
For further energy saving advice from the CLC for construction firms click here
