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.

CECA Backs Luton Airport Expansion

On Friday 13 December, the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry and Bedfordshire Chamber of Commerce jointly submitted an Open Letter on behalf of 139 businesses calling on the Government to approve the Development Consent Order to expand London Luton Airport. The letter, which was sent to both the Chancellor Rachel Reeves MP and the Business…

CECA Publishes Further Onerous Clauses Guidance For Contractors

CECA has published part two of our guide to managing onerous clauses in construction. Onerous amendments to standard form construction contracts, as well as onerous clauses within bespoke contracts, can be detrimental to all those working in construction and lead to non-optimal outcomes for contractors and clients. Although such provisions may be inserted into contracts…

CECA: Resurrect Roads Schemes For Growth

The UK’s civil engineering contractors today called on the Government to rethink its decision to take the axe to a number of roads schemes in yesterday’s Budget. The Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves yesterday unveiled a Budget that trumpeted a commitment to investment for growth while at the same time confirming that her Government…