Are flawed social value measures holding back green progress?
02 Nov
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Are flawed social value measures holding back green progress?

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Top Stories Tamfitronics Less than 1 per cent of social value created by construction firms comes via carbon reduction measures, figures shared with Construction News indicate.Data from framework provider Procure Partnerships shows that more than 98 per cent of the £6.8bn social value created through its frameworks comes from easy-to-achieve measures relating to local employment and supply chain spend.Robbie Blackhurst, founder and director at Black Capital Group, which owns procurement group Procure Partnerships, told Construction Newsthe metric now needs urgent updates to push the sector’s key environmental and social targets to the top of the agenda, calling the current social value metric “flawed”.Blackhurst argued that metrics including hiring local employees and subcontractors were almost a given within the construction industry, and should not contribute to a firm’s social value score.He said: “The current measures tend...
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Work restarts on stalled Mid Group scheme
02 Nov
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Work restarts on stalled Mid Group scheme

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Top Stories Tamfitronics A Greater Manchester-based contractor has restarted work on a £50m Bristol high-rise delayed by Mid Group’s collapse.The Boatyard, a 152-unit affordable housing scheme, had sat unfinished for more than two years after contractor Mid Group went into administration in July 2022.The project has now kicked off again after Salford-headquartered Recom Solutions picked up the job. The contractor has restarted enabling works and is progressing final designs, developer Clarion confirmed.When offsite specialist Mid Group started work in 2020, the first residents were expected to move in in August 2022. Work is now slated to complete in winter 2026, Clarion said.Once finished, the scheme will be one of the biggest shared ownership developments in Bristol, with 112 units pegged for shared ownership alongside 40 for affordable rent.The frame was built using precast cross-wall construction,...
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MPs to investigate cladding remediation progress
02 Nov
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MPs to investigate cladding remediation progress

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Top Stories Tamfitronics A high-profile Parliamentary committee has announced a probe into the government’s progress in remediating high-rise buildings with dangerous cladding.The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) said it would summon senior officials from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) and Homes England to give evidence.Its inquiry will delve into how effectively government schemes have been identifying and remediating unsafe cladding and managing the associated costs.A statement from the committee said: “In its 2020 report on remediating dangerous cladding, the committee expressed its condemnation at the badly missed target of June 2020 for all high-rise blocks to have Grenfell-style cladding removed.“The MHCLG accepted at the time that progress had been unacceptably slow.”The PAC’s new inquiry will assess whether recent government initiatives have successfully remedied system-wide issues and made meaningful progress in the past four...
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