The Building Podcast
Mark Wakeford is Chairman of the National Federation of Builders, vice-chair at Constructing Excellence Midlands and a Governor at Construction College, Moulton College. He has run a large regional building contractor and now chairs Evoenergy, one of the UK's foremost renewable companies, bringing low carbon solutions to corporate Britain.
Mark talks to leading experts from across the construction sector to discuss issues facing the built environment. He explores various challenges with his guests, who offer solutions, information and ideas that listeners can apply to their own situations, be it in a company, on a project or studying at college.
The Building Podcast aims to provide CPD on the go. Supporting the sector with easily digestible ideas to support a rapidly changing industry!
The Building Podcast
Mark talks to Keith Blizzard
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The complexity of construction projects, the changes that can happen during a project and the challenges of communication between the parties means that the sector is blighted with disputes. Many of these disputes are resolved between the parties through talking and leadership, however a pernicious few require external help to resolve. The 1996 Housing, Grants and Regeneration Act introduced adjudication into the industry as a relatively quick and economic way that parties could obtain an independent answer to their disputes that carried the weight of statute.
This procedure is now nearly thirty years old and has been used thousands of times to support the construction sector. Keith Blizzard is Chartered quantity surveyor, an adjudicator, a mediator and a visiting lecturer, so is very well positioned to talk through the process and the pitfalls of adjudication. His experience and his insights are valuable to anyone new or experienced in the process of resolving construction disputes.