Stop. Make a Change

Stop. Make a Change, CECA’s annual health, safety & wellbeing campaign, has gone from strength to strength since its foundation in 2017, and the campaign has since reached more than 500,000 people working in UK construction.

In 2024 Stop. Make a Change (SMAC-24) will focus primarily on the issue of diabetes safety in construction, in partnership with the Diabetes Safety Organisation (DSO), and will run between 7-18 October 2024. If you would would like to know more please visit the Stop. Make a Change website here.

Supporting Members through a Changing Industry

The past few months have been a busy time for CECA North East, with our programme reflecting many of the issues that matter to our members – from health, safety & wellbeing, policy & workload to skills and the future workforce. Our Safe Digging event brought contractors, clients, equipment suppliers and training providers together to

CECA Member Roundtable – CMA Civil Engineering Market Study

Following the publication of the Competition and Markets Authority’s (CMA) final civil engineering market study report, CECA members were recently joined at a webinar with representatives from the CMA to hear about its key findings and the next steps. Ben Goodwin, CECA’s Director of Policy and Public Affairs, looks at the key takeaways from the

New NPPF: How Far Has Government Gone to Meet CECA’s Calls for a Clearer Planning System?

This week the UK Government has published its new National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF), setting out the next stage of its efforts to create what Housing and Planning Minister Matthew Pennycook describes as a “clear, rules-based planning system.” For CECA members, the key question is whether the reforms address the practical barriers that continue to