Justin Ratcliffe, chief executive of the Council for Aluminium in Building (CAB), discusses the measures that the association is taking during the Covid-19 crisis.
Coronavirus is currently the most pressing issue facing the aluminium in building sector and CAB has been following the situation daily to ensure the most up to date information and support is available to members with the launch of a new C-19 hub. Support has also come in the form of a free member webinars including a popular series on contractual awareness presented by Geraldine Fleming, operations director, Driver Trett.
The first of Geraldine’s webinars entitled ‘Coronavirus – Practical Steps’ was logged into by over 50 members with an excellent Q&A session. The next session will be: ‘NEC3 & Covid-19 – what the contractual position could be for your projects’ on Thursday 9 April. This will consider:
- Update on the current position with construction and legislation.
- How does NEC3 deal with Covid-19?
- Are there any other clauses in NEC that you should be looking at?
- How important is notification – and what notices need to be issued.
- What specific NEC3 steps should you take now to protect your position?
Further weekly/bi-weekly seminars will include topics such as ‘C-19 and Payment’ and ‘Record Keeping and Claims’.
Despite the worrying economic downturn brought on by the epidemic and government lock down, we must look forward as a sector to how the future will look and CAB is delighted to announce that Prof. Noble Francis will present a webinar on Tuesday 21st April on ‘Economy and Construction – Where do we go now? Noble will consider:
- How we see the UK economy.
- Which construction sectors have been most affected so far?
- What regions have been hit the most at this point?
- What may recovery look like?
On the communications front, we will be welcoming David Glenwright, head of training and special projects, JC Social Media, for two seminars:
- ‘Planning for the unexpected’ on Tuesday 14 April
- ‘Developing and Maintaining Relationships with Customers Online’ (April – date tbc)
CAB fully recognises that members and the sector as a whole will require an enormous amount of re-energising at the point that any sort of normal commercial activity is resumed and therefore is continuing planning on a number of exciting initiatives. These include the launch later in the year of the new CAB Curtain Walling Installers CSCS Card. The association is also progressing its pilot closed loop recycling scheme into a full scheme highlighting the sustainability benefits of our wonderful 21st Century material – aluminium.
For more details on any of the above CAB webinars email: justin.ratcliffe@c-a-b.org.uk or contact: 07970 735689.
