The Construction Briefing podcast, ep.22: Construction Act 1996 turns 25 and building safety

The Construction Briefing – A Practical Law Podcast

This month, Michelle Rousell and Yassir Mahmood from Practical Law Construction discuss 25 years of the payment and adjudication provisions of the Construction Act 1996 applying to construction contracts (starts at 1.18), a number of building safety developments (including registering higher-risk buildings, draft Responsible Actors Scheme Regulations, the Independent Review of Construction Products and new Practical Law materials (starts at 15.12) and two judgments upheld on appeal (Atalian Servest AMK Ltd v BW (Electrical Contractors) Ltd [2023] CSIH 18 and FM Conway Ltd v The Rugby Football Union and others [2023] EWCA Civ 418) (starts at 36.27). They end with the Construction Contracts (Exclusion) (Wales) Order 2023 (WSI 2023/475) (starts at 42.37) and the first edition of the IChemE's engineering, procurement and construction management contract (EPCM), known as the Blue Book (starts at 44.11).