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Awaab’s Law
Awaab's Law: What is it and what property managers and surveyors must know by October 2025. Guest article written by Ella Green and Kat Cusack at RPC Hazards in Social Housing (Prescribed Requirements) (England) Regulations 2025, which was introduced in section 42 of the Social Housing (Regulation) Act 2023 and is known as "Awaab's Law", is due to come into force on 27 October 2025. Awaab's Law seeks to [...]
A Tragedy for the Profession: Architecture Apprenticeships Abolished
The abolition of apprenticeships is a tragedy for the architectural profession says the Association of Consultant Architects. The department for education has announced the abolition of level 7 apprenticeships for students over 21 years of age. It is a tragedy for ambitious and talented people in training and for architectural practices and for universities. The apprenticeship scheme was seen as a way of fundamentally changing the relationship between [...]
NEC acquires the ACA collaborative construction contracts
ACA transfers leading collaborative contracts to Thomas Telford, publisher of NEC4 The Association of Consultant Architects (ACA), renowned for pioneering collaborative construction contracts for over 25 years, has announced the transfer of its industry-leading Framework Alliance Contract (FAC-1) and the Term Alliance Contract (TAC-1), to Thomas Telford Ltd the commercial arm of the Institution of Civil Engineers and developer of the NEC Contract suite. This strategic move brings together [...]
Principal Designer: A New Opportunity for Architects
The Phase 2 report on the Grenfell tragedy was finally published in September more than 7 years after the disaster. While the report brought the enquiry to a close, the fall out from the severe systematic failings revealed by the investigation will continue to impact the construction industry for many years to come. In particular the enactment of the Building Safety Act is having a major effect on construction. [...]
Gold Standard Verification Scheme
‘Constructing the Gold Standard’ sets out an integrated and collaborative approach to framework procurement, contracting and management. It is endorsed by public sector clients and by 50 industry bodies in the September 2022 update of the ‘Construction Playbook’. In 2021, Professor David Mosey CBE was asked by the Cabinet Office to carry out an Independent Review of Public Sector Construction Frameworks. He consulted 120 organisations and ‘Constructing the Gold [...]
A new Government and another revised NPPF
With a new government come lots of aspirations for reform and improvement of the planning system - only time will tell whether these are effective. Apart from revision of the National Planning Policy Framework and the method of measuring housing need with associated reinstatement of mandatory housing supply numbers in local plans, etc (see NPPF report opposite), some changes In the pipeline include further attention to planning department resourcing [...]
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