Next Event - Breakfast seminar: Changes to the Construction Act 1996 - the Addleshaw Goddard guide
Wednesday, October 5, 2011 from 8:30 AM to 10:00 AM (GMT)
Leeds, United Kingdom
Members of Addleshaw Goddard's construction disputes team will summarise the amendments to the Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996, which take effect on 1 October 2011, discuss the key implications for your business and explain how not to fall foul of the amended adjudication, payment, suspension and notice provisions.
Registration and breakfast (pastries and tea/coffee) from 8.30. The seminar (one hour) will start at 9.00
To book go to http://cbpcyh5oct2011.eventbrite.com/
Birse Civils won project of the Year at this year’s Construction Best Practice Awards for Yorkshire and Humber.
Now in their 5th year, the awards were sponsored by Leeds Metropolitan University, Birse Civils and YOR Civils/YOR Consult. All award winners go through to the the Constructing Excellence National Awards, which will be held in November.
For the second year running, the awards were hosted by Chris Barrie who starred in Red Dwarf and the Britas Empire. Most recently he presented Massive Machines. Chris was back by popular demand and certainly kept us laughing all night.
To find out who won which award go to http://www.constructionsectornetwork.org/best-practise/yorkhsire-humber-construction-best-practice-awards-2011/
Thanks to everyone who attended the event, to our judges and to everyone involved in the organisation. Especially Hannah Oldfield and Liz May who both received flowers on the evening to thank them for their efforts. Congratulations to all those shortlisted and to all of our winners.
We will be updating our website with case studies from the winning and shortlisted projects over the next few weeks, so please do pop back and find out all about them.
Upcoming events
Traditionally November is our last event of the year. This year it will be linked to our AGM. We’re just waiting for final confirmation and will be letting you know about an exciting site visit and talk very soon. Don’t forget you need to be a member to vote at the AGM.
Upcoming in 2012 we are planning events around
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Behavioural Safety
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Sustainable building and the Green Deal
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Offsite construction – hopefully linked to a site visit
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Localism and Corporate Social Responsibility
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Social Media in Construction
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Smarter ways of getting our buildings complete, fully operational, yet still on time
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Lean Construction
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Learning and Development in the Construction Industry – what next?
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Affordable Housing
We’d be really interested to know which of these events you’d like to attend and whether you have any ideas for other events which would be beneficial to you and your company. You can let us know by taking this survey http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/LYF8H6V
Teamwork not paperwork – the commercial case for CDM– speaker Tony Putsman
At our September Event Tony Putsman told us that CDM is perceived differently by different people, but the general perception is that “it’s just Health and Safety isn’t it?”. He belives that most people see it as something that they have to do and that there are only a few people who are trying to use it to do something worthwhile and really make a difference.
For more on what happened http://www.constructionsectornetwork.org/best-practise/recent-events/
To renew or join
If you are not yet a member or want to renew your membership http://www.constructionsectornetwork.org/best-practise/
