December 2021 marks the first birthday of CECA’s Highway Maintenance Group. Following the sad demise of the Highway Term Maintenance Association, the group was formed at member request for an industry representative body operating specifically in the highways maintenance sphere. The group’s remit is to actively represent all CECA members working in the sector –
Click below to download the 2021 Inspiring Change Conference & Awards programme. The conference took place on 30 November 2021 at No. 11 Cavendish Square. Recordings of the conference sessions are free to watch here. The slides from the conference are available to download here.
Click above to watch a recording of CECA Southern & CECA South West’s Infrastructure Materials Summit, which took place on 18 November 2021.
Civils contractors today welcomed the UK Government’s announcement that over 100,000 unemployed young people have been helped into work through the Kickstart Scheme. Kickstart is part of the UK Government’s wider Plan for Jobs initiative. The figures released today by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show the scheme is working, with an increase in
Please click below to watch a short video message to members from CECA Chief Executive Alasdair Reisner, ahead of our 25th Anniversary Conference, which takes place this week.
Civils contractors today said that the Government’s decision not to proceed with the HS2 Eastern Leg and full Northern Powerhouse Rail programme will be ‘a missed opportunity’ for the British economy. Writing in The Yorkshire Post, the Prime Minister indicated that what he described as a £96 billion programme of investment will not include the
It falls to me to me as Chairman to announce that CECA Midlands Regional Director, Dawn Karakatsanis has tendered her resignation and intends to retire, though she will remain with us until the end of April 2022 to help and support her successor into the role. I’m sure that you will join with me in
Click above to watch a recording of a CECA webinar with JTC and HMRC on red diesel rebate removal, which took place on 1 November 2021.
To mark the start of Highways UK, civil engineering contractors have today published a route map to achieve net zero targets in highways maintenance and construction. Roads still form the critical backbone of our economy. Sectors heavily dependent on the Strategic Road Network already contribute £314 billion in GVA to England’s economy and will grow
Today (1 November), CECA Wales, representing Wales’s civil engineering contractors, and ACE for consulting engineers, publish a joint report with the County Surveyors Society (CSS) Cymru which sets out a sector Action Plan to decarbonise infrastructure in Wales. Ahead of COP26, the report, Decarbonising Our Infrastructure, addresses some of the barriers to change facing the
