Rob Driscoll

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We warmly welcome the new Government consultation on reforming cash retentions and taking legislative measures against late payments to small businesses, as part of the new Small Business Plan unveiled today. loom.ly/dNNaKDw

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2,369 (58%) of firms that went out of business in the year to March were specialist contractors, 0.7% higher than in the year to February but 4.3% lower than a year ago (insolvencies peaked in early 2024 after house building slowdown in 2023 Q4). (8/n) #ukconstruction #ukhousing

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... rising wage costs due to skill shortages would exacerbate issues for house builders & contractors in 2025 as they already have to deal with the employers' contributions to National Insurance & expected rises in building materials prices in 2025 H1. #ukhousing #ukconstruction

UK construction wages rose 6.9% in nominal terms & 4.6% in real terms in the year to October 2024, partially reflecting an acceleration in house building demand from a low base (& why it has been on a upward trend since the nadir in 2023 Q4) but... #ukhousing #ukconstruction

'Not enough change since Carillion' On @bbcr4today, @BuildUK boss @SuzannahNichol says the impact of ISG’s collapse on construction industry “will be devastating…and we may unfortunately see other companies within the supply chain now go down as a result ”. (1/2)

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ECA members exposed to ISG, feel free to contact ECA’s Business Policy & Practice team. We may be able to help! Another giant of construction falls to the tsunami of insolvencies. constructionenquirer.com/2024/09/20/isg…

... note even at the recent peak of UK construction employment in 2019 Q1, it was still 157,483 workers lower than at the pre-financial crisis peak in 2008 Q3 so downturns cause both a temporary & permanent loss of construction workers that... (7/n) #ukconstruction #ukhousing

... UK construction product manufacturers have had to mothball some factories & close others given that it is high fixed-cost energy-intensive manufacturing that is not financially viable when demand falls so sharply. (4/n) #ukhousing #ukconstruction

... house building in 2023 Q1 was still strong due to house builders meeting pre-sales made before the sharp mortgage rate rises. Our latest forecast is for house building starts to fall 11% this year after last year's double-digit fall. (11/n) #ukhousing #ukconstruction

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Not to make a political party point but economists & politicians focus on 2.0% annual inflation whereas most people tend to focus on 24.0% increase in prices before that & then the 2.0% that exacerbates it. #ukinflation #inflation

A thread highlighting the major age-demographic problem in the UK construction workforce &, critically, the rapid acceleration of the age-demographic problem since 2019 Q1 with a loss of over 300,000 UK construction workers. (1/n) #ukconstruction #construction #ukhousing

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@BBCr4today However, clearly the majority of the loss of UK construction workers since 2004 was initially due to the impacts of the financial crisis &, more recently, primarily due to early retirement of UK-born workers & the downturns in housing & rm&i activity. #ukconstruction #ukhousing