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Professionals predict 50% fall
in private new-build schemes
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Building services numbers, and 64 per cent expect affected by the recession.” figures indicating that the UK
engineering (BSE) their workforce to expand further The research concentrated on construction industry has suffered
consultants are predicting a sharp by 2015. how the recession may affect the more than 45,000 redundancies
decline in projects in the next two While 20 per cent said they sector’s workload across five key in the three months to December
years as a result of the recession, were introducing cost-cutting areas: private commercial; private 2008.
according to a survey. measures, only nine per cent said industrial; private housing; social SummitSkills said it was already
More than half of private- they currently planned to make housing; and major public works. working towards minimising the
housing projects and more than staff redundant, and 29 per cent The survey found that 98 per impact of the recession on the
10 per cent of social-housing said the recession was having no cent of consultancies are involved sector’s workforce and skills levels
schemes are expected to be effect on their business. in private commercial work, through the redeployment and
postponed or cancelled. SummitSkills chief executive while 70 per cent are engaged training of redundant apprentices,
The report was published as one Keith Marshall said: “Our in major public sector work – supporting employers to develop
leading contractor in the industry, estimates are based on indicating a reliance on Public the skills of existing workers in new
Haden Young, announced plans assumptions that can be Private Partnership and the Private building services market areas,
to make redundancies – raising influenced by numerous variables, Finance Initiative, the report says. and supporting how education
concerns about the impact of the but it’s inevitable that businesses The predictions are in line with and training is delivered.
recession on the sector’s supply will be, and have already been, recent Office for National Statistics www.summitskills.org.uk
chain.
The survey was conducted by
SummitSkills, the Sector Skills
Haden Young redundancy plan a ‘tragedy’
Council for building services News that contractor Haden Young is “It’s enough to send us all into Haden as a significant name from
engineering, which said that the planning to make redundancies in the deep depression to see our very the onset of the industry, which led,
fall in projects could result in the UK has been described as a “tragedy”. best consulting and contracting with a few others, “to just about
loss of up to 154,000 jobs among Haden’s parent company firms having to shed staff to stay in everything that we are today”.
contractors. Balfour Beatty confirmed it was in business,” he said. “Redundancies In a statement, Balfour Beatty
The 56 UK-based consultancy consultations on making possible in our industry are a tragedy beyond said: “We can confirm that Haden
firms questioned in the survey redundancies, but was unable to most others, we have shortage Young has consulted a number
said they expected the recession to say how many might be affected. enough of engineers to do the of employees regarding possible
continue until the end of 2010. Terry Wyatt of consultancy Hoard massive tasks before us and really redundancies in the UK. Where
However, the figures also show Lea said it was worrying that such a cannot afford losing any.” possible the company is seeking
that, during the past five years, 66 significant company in the supply Wyatt described what was to find alternative positions.”
per cent of engineering practices chain should have to make cuts. formerly known as G Nelson Terry Wyatt interview, page 28
have increased their consultant
BREEAM standard for
specialist buildings
The BRE Trust has launched a new Paul Gibbon, director of
standard for Datacentre schemes in sustainability at BRE Global, said:
specialist buildings. “We have created the new scheme
The BREEAM Datacentre using the BREEAM Bespoke
scheme aims to reduce the cost of methodology as the development
assessments and provides a ready- framework to take account of the
made set of criteria against which rise in interest in applying BREEAM
developers, designers and clients to more specialist buildings.”
can assess their buildings. “We will be refining the
It has been adopted by the Digital Datacentre scheme over the first 12
Realty Trust, which will be using the months of its operation following
New development for Titanic centenary
new BREEAM Datacentre scheme feedback from actual assessments
for its buildings throughout the and, in time, these specialist
The Titanic quarter in Belfast is to become home to the planned new world in order to achieve significant schemes will become part of the
Titanic Signature Project, a visitor centre and exhibition space. Faber environmental and cost savings. standard suite for BREEAM.”
Maunsell | AECOM has been appointed to provide mechanical and The trust has already piloted the BREEAM Bespoke was developed
electrical design services for the £90m project, which will form the scheme on a building in the south in 2000 for buildings not covered by
centrepiece of the Titanic Quarter, once home to Harland and Wolff east of England, which has now mainstream BREEAM assessment
shipyard and its most famous product, RMS Titanic. The project will start successfully achieved the first schemes, such as offices, retail,
later this year and be completed in 2012, in time for Titanic’s centenary. BREEAM Excellent rating for a healthcare and education buildings.
building of its type. www.breeam.org
www.cibsejournal.com April 2009 CIBSE Journal 7
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