Section: Building & Regeneration
House Building Skills Summit Agrees Course of Action
Posted 06.11.14
The following were agreed at the House Building Careers Summit, organised by Home Builders Federation and attended by Government Ministers Brandon Lewis and Nick Boles:
- The house building industry will recruit tens of thousands of new workers in the coming years - including thousands of apprentices, graduates and ex-military personnel - they will also increase the numbers of school-leavers joining the industry.
- The Government and house building industry would work together to improve the image of house building with young people - including by enabling industry representatives to work with schools to explain the range of opportunities available.
- The industry will work more closely with the Military to help increase the numbers of former members of the Armed Forces to move into house building - and to look at how more people who lost their jobs in the 2008 housing crash can rejoin the industry.
- The Government and house building industry will work together to ensure apprenticeships and training standards meet the needs of the modern building industry - including taking into account new methods such as off-site construction.
The industry will now work with Government to develop and implement the outcomes agreed.
HCA Confirms Organisations Appointed To Its New Multidisciplinary Panel
Posted 03.11.14
The Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) has confirmed the successful companies appointed to its new £100 million multidisciplinary panel.
The panel will be used to procure a wide range of technical services required to support the construction and development of homes by public sector bodies.
Services available through the panel, which covers all areas of England and will run for four years, include - project and cost management, engineering, architecture, planning, masterplanning, landscape architecture, ecology, construction design and management and property consultancy.
The panel replaces the HCA's existing multidisciplinary and engineering panels and is made up of 18 organisations in one national lot as follows:
- AECOM LTD
- AMEC Environment and Infrastructure UK Ltd
- Atkins Limited
- Building Design Partnership Limited (BDP)
- CH2M Hill United Kingdom (CHUK)
- Hyder Consulting (UK) Limited
- Mott MacDonald Limited
- Mouchel Limited
- NPS Property Consultants Ltd
- Ove Arup & Partners International Ltd
- Parsons Brinckerhoff Ltd
- Pell Frischmann Consultants Ltd
- Peter Brett Associates LLP
- Savills (UK) Ltd
- Tibbalds CampbellReith Joint Venture
- URS Infrastructure & Environment UK Limited
- WSP UK Ltd
- WYG Engineering Limited
The new panel is made available free for use by a very wide range of public sector bodies - including local authorities, central government departments, NHS Trusts and many others - to help them increase the speed and efficiency of their procurement processes.
Further information on the HCA's technical panels is available via this link.
