CECA North East – Safe Digging Event – October 2024

Click above to access the slides from CECA North East’s ‘Safe Digging’ Event, which took place on 1 October 2024 at Hexham Racecourse.    Relevant Links: Bob Wood  Video Esh Breaking Ground Video United Living – Don’t Walk By Video  Leica Video

The Conflict Avoidance Pledge – A Lawyer’s Perspective

Starting with the obvious question, why would a disputes lawyer support a pledge to avoid and reduce disputes, is this turkey really voting for Christmas? The reality, however, is that dispute lawyers have been advising clients about ADR and other ways to reduce the impact of disputes. Making people aware of the pledge serves the

The Conflict Avoidance Pledge: What Is It & What Is It For?

The Conflict Avoidance Pledge was conceived in 2017 at a meeting jointly arranged by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and the Institute of Civil Engineers. Senior executives and members from RICS and the ICE, along with representatives of four other professional bodies and two major infrastructure employers attended the meeting and formed a coalition.

CECA NEC Clause X29 Webinar – 12 November 2024

CECA Southern in conjunction with Richard Patterson, Mott MacDonald is running a webinar for members on the new X29 Clause within the NEC contract.  Please contact Lucy Hudson to book your place.

CECA South West Member’s Meeting Wednesday 18 September 2024

The meeting at Sandy Park was action packed with over 40 CECA SW Members in the room and four speakers: Jason Hones, Regional Director, National Highways. Jason updated CECA SW members on all things ‘National Highways’ in the region, including current project delivery and frameworks under RIS2, future procurement and NH strategy for RIS3, opportunities

Forestry England Maintenance Framework

Forestry England is the largest land manager in England and custodian of the nation’s public forests. Our mission is to connect everyone with the nation’s forests by creating and caring for forests for people to enjoy, wildlife to flourish and businesses to grow. We support the Forestry Commission, the non-ministerial department responsible for protecting, expanding

ICE South AGM, Followed by Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) Panel Discussion 26 September 2024, 17:45 – 18:10 AGM (Inc. via Teams); 18:10 – 20:00 Panel Discussion

ICE South are delighted to announce they we will be hosting an engaging discussion about the implementation of Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) from their panel of experts.  Nicholas White, Natural England BNG Lead, will be attending. Topics are likely to be wide ranging, from the ethical considerations based on existing experiences, to the potential gaps

The Conflict Avoidance Process – CAP

It is a pretty gloomy construction industry in the UK, at present, and one chink of light has seen growing support for the Conflict Avoidance Process – CAP.   This is an early intervention process in construction and engineering projects to ensure that issues that are emerging are resolved by the parties involved, without recourse to

CITB Highways Maintenance Skilled Operative – Level 2

CITB are continuing to deliver their Level 2 Highways Maintenance and Ground Worker apprenticeships from the National Construction College at Bircham Newton. Please see full details here.

CITB Engineering Technician Level 3

CITB are resuming delivery of their Levy 3 Civil Engineering Technician qualification. This is a great programme which includes a BTEC Level 3 Diploma in Civil Engineering and carries UCAS points as a bonus. Please see full details here.