The chair of the Scottish Building Contracts Committee (SBCC) has urged the construction sector to forget its differences and work together to overcome the potentially devastating impact of coronavirus.
SELECT, the trade body for electrical professionals in Scotland, has given a cautious welcome to the Chancellor’s measures, announced on Thursday 26 March 2020, to provide financial support to the self-employed – but insists more clarity is still needed.
Following the impacts of Covid-19 on global demand and oil price disputes between Russia and Saudi Arabia, Brent crude oil prices fell to a 17-year low of below $26/bl on 18 March 2020, according to Cornwall Insight.
The newly-established Construction Industry Coronavirus (CICV) forum has provided clarity for the sector in Scotland following advice from First Minister Nicola Sturgeon on Wednesday 25 March that all building sites with the exception of any hospital work should close.
The detail of the government’s new coronavirus job retention scheme, announced on Friday, has been questioned by engineering services trade body ECA.
Employers’ concern for staff wellbeing must now go well beyond the traditional workplace, says a leading lighting manufacturer who is advising businesses to make sure their staff are fully equipped for working at home.
Over nine in 10 engineering services businesses have said they are ‘concerned or very concerned’ about the impact of coronavirus on their business over the next six months, according to initial responses to a new engineering services survey by ECA, BESA and SELECT.
Due to the disruption caused by the coronavirus, in the interest of our stakeholders, the Electrical Review & Data Centre Review Excellence Awards – which was due to take place on 21 May 2020 at London’s Christ Church Spitalfields – has now been postponed
A new engineering services industry survey has been launched by ECA, BESA and SELECT to monitor the impact of coronavirus on the industry.
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