Buildings

The coalition Government’s backing of the £40 billion new nuclear build programme in the UK is the news energy firms had been waiting to hear.

EDF Energy’s director of planning and external affairs Richard Mason is preparing to present updated plans to minimise the community impact of building new nuclear reactors at Hinkley Point in Somerset.

Few trends which began in the seventies have aged well. But GC/Works/1, a contract launched in 1973, and not updated since 2000, has recently been making itself known again even after NEC3 was endorsed by OGC for use by the public sector and chosen by the UK Olympic Delivery Authority. By…