In the wake of the Carillion collapse an industry coalition of over 60 construction and maintenance trade bodies now back the ‘Aldous Bill;’ proposing cash retentions owed to the supply chain be held in trust. By far the largest...
Read MoreECA and the BESA meet with liquidators PwC and Government on Wednesday Leading engineering services trade bodies ECA and BESA have this week (Wednesday 17 January) pressed Carillion liquidators PwC to provide greater certainty...
Read MoreThe liquidation of construction giant Carillion could lead to potentially catastrophic losses for thousands of SMEs, according to the Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) and the electrotechnical and engineering...
Read MoreProposed parliamentary legislation designed to dramatically reform the controversial practice of payment retentions in the construction industry was formally unveiled at a House of Commons briefing today (January 8th). The Bill,...
Read MoreThe Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) and the electrotechnical and engineering services trade body ECA have both welcomed the government’s decision to focus on improving productivity as a key element of its...
Read MoreBESA and ECA issue five-point plan ahead of Budget on Wednesday 22 November With the Autumn Budget due to be announced in just three weeks time, the ECA and the BESA have called on Chancellor Philip Hammond MP to take action to...
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Twenty-one leading businesses from across the engineering and electrotechnical services sector...
Read MoreCommons Energy and Climate Change Committee calls for storage revolution Following a new report on future energy provision by the House of Commons Energy and Climate Change (ECC) Committee, the Electrical Contractors’...
Read MoreSuicide kills six times as many construction workers as falling from heights, according to mental health volunteers. Samaritans – the mental health charity – told a recent seminar that more attention must be paid to depression...
Read MoreAlmost three quarters (72 per cent) of building services firms say they actively manage occupational health, according to a new survey from the Electrical Contractors’ Association (ECA), the BESA and Constructing Better Health....
Read MoreLatest ECA poll finds 8 in 10 firms see turnover steady or increased Almost 8 in 10 contractors (79%) in the electrical and building services industries say turnover has increased or remained steady in the third quarter of 2015,...
Read More‘More than half of small firms ‘not ready’ for introduction of BIM Level 2’ Small and medium-sized firms could find themselves unintentionally ‘frozen out’ from competing for tens of billions of pounds of central...
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