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The shopfitting and interior contracting sector, like the rest of the construction sector has found itself caught up in the whirlwind of change.
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National Association of Shopfitters (NAS) Major clients, large tier one contractors and those that procure the services of Shopfitters and Interior Contractors are increasingly squeezing suppliers in an effort to protect their businesses as financial pressure mounts on the entire industry. Despite the wider industry drive for ‘Fair Payment’ and the introduction of the Construction Act, the outlawing of ‘pay when paid’ there continues to be a growing stack of evidence of large retention fees, lengthening payment terms and demands for rebates. Many contractors continue to be caught
between clients that are increasingly wary of supply chain failure as the industry continues to teeter on the edge and are taking advantage of the amended Construction Act to introduce new payment terms and conditions. Other tier one contractors are understood to have introduced terms to the effect that, should subcontractors commence adjudication, they will be responsible for the costs of both parties and the adjudicator will have no jurisdiction to allocate fees and expenses against the main contractor.
Forcing the supply chain to agree to such
terms is no longer legal under the revised act but it is understood that some firms have urged preferred suppliers to sign up to them. In the midst of all of this and of the most
challenging economic down turn in the history of the industry, the shopfitting and interior contracting sector, like the rest of the construction sector, has found itself caught up in the whirlwind of change, not least those that have arisen from the Government Construction Strategy. The continuing drive towards the low carbon agenda, more integrated working practices, lean construction and modern manufacturing methods hasn’t ceased to gather breath, would seem totally oblivious to the current dire financial state of the economy. Coupled together one might at first sight see these representing a radical overhaul of the industry with Building Information Modelling (BIM) as both the heart and the driver enabling the logical delivery of all these changes.
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