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FIS Q1 Highlights
Since the year began the FIS team have been hard at work and achieved some brilliant results across out Technical, Business Development, Skills and Training, and Lobbying efforts. Here's a short look back at the first 3 months of 2023 Key technical work New Guide to...
CPA provides economic update
The CPA has produced an Economic Update on 12 May, which members can access here. The updated issues are in Pages 1-7 of the weekly update whilst subsequent pages have existing data and information that remain relevant. This update includes: ONS Construction Output...
Lens Blog: Termination
FIS Consultant Len Bunton talks termination of contracts. This is another minefield, and another good reason you should read contracts. Here, Len discusses what can you do to reduce exposure to a threat of termination. These monthly Blogs are designed to help FIS...
Operational Standards Rules and Building Inspector Competence Framework
The Operational Standards Rules (OSRs) will apply from April 2024 and set out the practices, procedures, and performance standards that the Building Safety Regulator expects from Local Authorities and Registered Building Control Approvers (RBCAs) in relation to their...
Retaining key industry legislation
The Government has announced this week that the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill will be amended. Instead of including a ‘sunset’ date of 31 December 2023, by which all remaining retained EU law (close to 4,000 still in effect in the UK) will either be...
FIS aligns vetting process with Common Assessment Standard
As part of measures taken to improve and streamline the FIS membership vetting standards, we have aligned the FIS audit criteria with those of the Common Assessment Standard developed by Build UK. Build UK developed the common assessment standard to improve efficiency...
CPA provides economic update
The CPA has produced an Economic Update on 5 May, which members can access here. The updated issues are in Pages 1-7 of the weekly update whilst subsequent pages have existing data and information that remain relevant. This update includes: S&P Global/CIPS UK...
Interest rates rise, CPA downgrades housing forecasts, but some bright spots for FIS members in spring forecasts
Yesterday, the Bank of England implemented the 12th consecutive rise in interest rates to attempt to deal with “sticky” inflation. In more positive news the Bank also upgraded growth forecasts and lowered forecasts for unemployment. According to the CPA,...
Mixed performance for construction product manufacturing in Q1
The Construction Products Association’s latest State of Trade Survey for 2023 Q1 highlighted the continued mix of fortunes in the construction product manufacturing industry. For a third consecutive quarter a fall in sales for heavy side producers contrasted with...