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New BCSA Industry Member

BCSA is pleased to welcome Henry Venables Products Ltd T/A Blind Bolt into Industry Membership. The company supplies constructional cavity fixing in the UK. See https://www.blindbolt.co.uk

7th July 2020 Lorraine MacKinder
Presidents Column (June 2020)

The lockdown is starting to be relaxed and although things won’t be back to normal any time soon, a lot of construction sites are open (with the exception of some in Scotland) and most steelwork contractors are working. We all look forward to more restrictions being lifted over the summer, but I worry that The Chancellor, Rishi Sunak, has warned of a ‘severe recession, the likes of which we haven’t seen’ and some
commentators talk about 10% unemployment not just for the short term but for up to 5 years, it’s important to me that we don’t talk ourselves into recession.

We are seeing projects put back and a reduction in the number of enquiries. You may be interested to read that the ‘Building Conference’ reported a continued downward trend in both the number and value of contracts awarded in the first two weeks of May.

In the six weeks before the lockdown there was an average of 122 contracts awarded each week. In the first and second weeks of May, there were just 66 and 94 contracts awarded respectively and the value of the contracts awarded fell from an average of £2.08 billion per week to just £0.3 billion in the first week of May and £1.43 billon in the second week of May. These are grim stats but let’s hope this is a more of a holding pattern and the work will flow through soon. This reduction in the pipeline of work is likely to hit the Construction industry at the worst possible time. The Job Retention Scheme is scheduled to end at the end of October just when the industry will need it.

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12th June 2020 Lorraine MacKinder
Presidents Column (May 2020)

We’re all acclimatising ourselves to new ways of working. For most steelwork contractors the restrictions have resulted in home working and social distancing in factories and offices, where being organised and planning work around the social distancing requirements is paramount. There were some mixed messages at the start of the lockdown, but this was a temporary measure to introduce better health and safety measures and the majority of sites in England and Wales are now open.

The social restrictions have now been in place for six weeks as thoughts focus on the future and the ‘new normal’. Most of us have taken to virtual meetings using ‘video conferencing’ and while for many this was a new way of communicating, the benefits of not having to travel long distances for short meetings are clear enough. As one CEO put it, “for a meeting in London I usual get up at 5.30am catch the 7.30am to London, hold a meeting from 10.30 until 15.30 and take the 17.30 train home. With video conferencing I don’t have to leave the office and I can have five meetings a day”. The benefits of virtual meetings are obvious and its highly likely that the new normal will involve less travelling and more virtual meetings. It’ll not be just the FD that likes that one, the dog gets an extra walk.

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15th May 2020 Lorraine MacKinder
Presidents Column (April 2020)

The world is facing unprecedented times. The effect of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on the health and wellbeing of the nation is still uncertain. Each day the number of people infected, and the number of deaths increases. We are also getting more stringent information on social distancing; pubs restaurants, clubs etc have been closed as have some parks and public spaces. We can only go outside for food, health reasons or work – but only if we cannot work from home. Further restrictive measures including ‘curfews and prohibitions’ on movement may yet be imposed.

The government and the Chancellor have introduced unprecedented peacetime measures to ensure companies and employees make it through the pandemic and are able to continue their business and social lives once the pandemic is over.

But what are steelwork contractors doing? Like most companies they are trying to follow government guidance, but this is changing rapidly, and the measures put in place today may be different from those needed tomorrow. These are very challenging and stressful times.

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15th April 2020 Lorraine MacKinder
New BCSA Industry Member

BCSA is pleased to welcome Idea Statica UK Ltd into Industry Membership. The company supplies Computer Software in the UK. See https://www.ideastatica.uk

14th April 2020 Lorraine MacKinder

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