Work Opportunities

“Creating Work Opportunities”

This is all about our engagement with construction clients, developing construction related policies, supporting a pragmatic commercial environment and identifying future workload opportunities for our members.

What we’ll be doing in 2025 :

  1. promoting the value of infrastructure investment at Welsh and UK levels through a targeted communications plan with key politicians and decision makers :
  2. meeting key clients and politicians in a structured engagement programme to influence thinking and decision-making around infrastructure and civil engineering matters in Wales :
  3. establishing a clear engagement programme with construction clients across the public and private sectors followed by briefing sessions for members on work opportunities :
  4. working with clients to publish their 12-24 month work programmes
  5. informing and influencing discussions on fair payment and retentions
  6. promoting more equitable forms of risk management amongst clients
  7. informing and influencing policy making by inputting to infrastructure specific Welsh and UK government reviews
  8. taking a lead role on appropriate and specific industry groups
  9. engaging across the sector to achieve a fairer, more balanced procurement process that recognises equitable risk transfer
Supplier concerns across the rail sector and workload visibility
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Network Rail (NR) recently hosted a webinar for suppliers, following concerns raised by a number of trade associations, including CECA, that many rail suppliers are reporting a serious hiatus in expected rail work at the start of Control Period 7 (CP7). Senior representatives from NR provided an update on a number of factors affecting their…

UK General Election results and implications for the infrastructure sector across Wales
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Last Thursday some of us voted in a UK General Election. It’s fair to say that there weren’t many surprises in the outcome. But what does this mean for infrastructure, and especially infrastructure in Wales? It’s probably a bit too early to work this one out but I thought I’d dig out some pre-election “promises”…