We are the Civil Engineering Contractors Association (CECA) Wales Cymru and we represent 60 of Wales’ largest and smallest civil engineering contracting businesses with a cumulative annual turnover in excess of £1bn and employing over 6,000 people. These businesses play a huge part in supporting communities across Wales and make a significant contribution to the
It’s been a strange few weeks. We’ve gone from being social animals to socially distanced animals in a very short space of time. No more trips to the pub, the coffee shop, the chapel. No schools open. Public transport systems largely reserved for key workers. And for many, the ones who are able to work,
If you listen to our Welsh Government you’d think we’re pretty serious about it. Although who knows what happens to all the data that pops out of the Community Benefits Measurement Tool? Depends what goes into it I suppose? Not enough I know that! If you listen to a myriad of clients, from local authorities
Blog 7th January 2020 As we move forward into a new decade what are the prospects for our infrastructure in Wales – and the sector that delivers it? The long period of instability in UK politics coupled with flawed austerity policies and Brexit has led to one of the worst periods of under investment in
Press Release – 17th December 2019 Ed Evans, Director of CECA Wales, says : “This long period of instability in UK politics coupled with flawed austerity policies has led to one of the worst periods of under investment in infrastructure in living memory. We’re now calling on the UK Conservative Government to deliver on its
“Supporting Healthy and Active Lives and the role of infrastructure” On Tuesday 26th November 2019 CECA Wales launched it’s joint report on “Active and Healthy Lives : the role of infrastructure” at the Pierhead, Cardiff. The event was sponsored by Jenny Rathbone AM and the Deputy Minister for Economy and Transport, Lee Waters, gave us
As we await the imminent publication of the first annual report of the National Infrastructure Commission for Wales, we as a sector have come together, as the Welsh Infrastructure Alliance (WIA), to take stock of the current state of the infrastructure sector in Wales and what the Commission has done for us so far. The
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 4th November 2019 *Cymraeg isod The Civil Engineering Contractors Association Wales welcomes today’s announcement by the Welsh Government of a further £130m funding for capital investment this year along with the publication of an updated Wales Infrastructure Investment Plan (WIIP) project pipeline. However, we would call on the Welsh Government to go
Civil engineering workload decreasing, future orders decreasing, employment decreasing! But costs are increasing! Press Release 4th November 2019 A report (https://www.ceca.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/CECA-Great-Britain-2019-Q3.pdf) from the Civil Engineering Contractors Association (CECA) shows that, for a 3rd consecutive quarter, workload is decreasing for 44% of civil engineering contractors in Wales. This is the lowest balance since the start of
