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Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s decision to push back the deadlines for key energy efficiency policies, including allowing existing fossil fuel heating systems to be used in certain homes for almost an additional decade, has been roundly criticised as undermining the UK’s ability to reach net zero by 2050. 

83 winning building maintenance and compliance consultancies and contractors have been named for a Britain-wide £135m framework designed to help the public sector meet its building life safety and maintenance responsibilities.

Specialist contractors are being sought to help influence a multi-million-pound framework dedicated to tackling the energy efficient retrofit and decarbonisation of Great Britain’s public sector buildings and social housing stock.

Following changes to its board and company structure in April this year, the not-for-profit public sector construction framework provider has announced a change to its senior leadership team, appointing Jennifer Castle as its new Chief Operating Officer (COO).

Winning construction sector companies have been named for a Britain-wide £1.2BN framework to provide thousands of homes built using modern methods of construction.

Winning consultancies have been named for a Britain-wide £30m framework to help support new build, refurbishment and retrofit of public sector buildings and homes.

Eight senior figures hailing from housing associations across England, Scotland and Wales have been appointed onto our LHC Board and signals a move from a Joint Committee structure to a company limited by guarantee (CLG) and our own legal entity.

Fire safety experts are encouraged to register their interest in our new framework which covers new or replacement passive and active fire protection measures for existing and new domestic and non-domestic buildings, as well as consultancy and cladding.

Specialist contractors are being sought to register their interest in helping to shape a multi-million-pound framework launching later this year to deliver refurbishment and associated retrofit works for the public sector. This will include non-residential projects as well as associated retrofit works as part of wider refurbishment.

Four existing sets of regulations are expected to be replaced by a single, new regulatory framework. This will improve the way public procurement is regulated, enhance public services, empower communities and more. A Transforming Public Procurement checklist has been published which suggests initial actions in four key areas for contracting authorities to prepare for, when the new regulations take effect around early 2024.