CIC calls for governmental construction department

The Construction Industry Council (CIC) has called for the government to set up a department specialising in construction issues in order to combat rising levels of red tape and confusing regulations.

An increase in the number of new targets and rules has made it hard for the industry to keep pace, CIC has advised, saying that small firms were especially liable to suffer due to lower resource availability.

Such targets are also difficult to enforce and hence errors may be going unnoticed, CIC spokesperson Richard Biggs has advised.

"We're forever struggling with more and more regulations I think a lot of them are red tape. Clearly building regulations have good intentions; but the difficulty is keeping pace with them, and enforcing them," he commented.

"There's talk of reshuffling departments. At the moment the construction portfolio is with DTI We've been pushing for a dedicated department for construction," Mr Biggs added.



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