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Improvements and simplifications to apprenticeships from August 2022
The Department for Education are introducing a number of changes to apprenticeships through the 2022 to 2023 funding rules: DfE are making it simpler for individuals to accelerate their apprenticeship. By improving how providers assess prior learning and experience...
Consultation opens on Higher-Risk Building Regulations
The Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities has published a consultation on the Higher-Risk Building (Descriptions and Supplementary Provisions) Regulations. This consultation is the first in a series of consultations on regulations which sit under the...
New grants that are available to all levy-registered employers
Grants provide financial support for employers who supply construction-specific training for their workforce. CITB grants help ensure workers are safe, skilled and have opportunities to grow. From 1 April 2022, the following grants are available through the CITB...
FIS Acoustic Verification Scheme recognised on NBS Source
FIS and NBS, the leading specification platform for the construction industry, announced this week that NBS has now formally recognised the FIS Acoustic Verification Scheme within their product selection tool NBS Source. This change means that specifiers can search...
FIS awards industry’s best!
FIS today celebrated the finishes and interiors sector with the announcement of the winners of the FIS 2022 Contractors Awards. Members and their guests packed out the Nine Kings Suite at the Royal Lancaster Hotel in London to watch the winners in the nine categories...
FIS launches digital platform to provide accurate competency record
With the requirement to demonstrate competency in your workforce being carried into law with the new Building Safety Act, FIS has teamed with MyProPass (MPP) to provide a platform for businesses to manage the competency of their workforce and for individuals to...
Amendments to Approved Document B
Government have now published a new document that sets out amendments to guidance previously published in Approved Document B: Fire safety, Volume 1 – Dwellings and Volume 2 – Buildings other than dwellings. These amendments will be incorporated in the online...
Price inflation and a diminishing labour supply are now of greater concern than product availability
Statement from John Newcomb, CEO of the Builders Merchants Federation and Peter Caplehorn, CEO of the Construction Products Association, co-chairs of the Construction Leadership Council’s Product Availability working group Price inflation and a diminishing labour...
Update: Non-Combustible Cladding Requirements Extended and Amended
There have been further changes to fire safety requirements in the Building Regulations and the use of non-combustible materials in and on the external walls of new flats, hospitals, student, school accommodation and dormitory buildings (originally introduced in...