Episodios

  • 199: Late payment, Whitehall red tape and plug-in solar panels

    199: Late payment, Whitehall red tape and plug-in solar panels
    Apr 1 2026
    Bishop and Taylor discuss proposals to finally ban the use of retentions. Plus they ask why is the government consulting on proposals to cut consultations? And who is Fatty Acid Methyl Ester?
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    36 m
  • 198: Revival postponed, Vistry’s wobbles and a plumber goes to Parliament

    198: Revival postponed, Vistry’s wobbles and a plumber goes to Parliament
    Mar 18 2026
    Bishop & Taylor discuss the extent to which a much anticipated imminent recovery in UK construction is likely to have been hit but the latest turn of world events. They also chat about the impending departure of Vistry CEO Greg Fitzgerald and the election of a plumber to the House of Commons.
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    49 m
  • 197: Rudi Klein on payment reform

    197: Rudi Klein on payment reform
    Mar 4 2026
    Bishop & Taylor are joined again by barrister Rudi Klein, who for more than 30 years was chief executive of the Specialist Engineering Contractors’ (SEC) Group, to discuss progress – or lack of – in construction industry payment reform.
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    1 h y 7 m
  • 196: Parliament refurb, Power tools and Persimmon’s recycling

    196: Parliament refurb, Power tools and Persimmon’s recycling
    Feb 18 2026
    In this episode Bishop & Taylor discuss the latest in the ongoing saga of the physical deterioration of the Palace of Westminster. They also talk power tools, with the relaunch of a redesigned range of JCB-branded tools. And they talk soil recycling, with specific reference to house-builder Persimmon’s latest money-saving initiative.
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    46 m
  • 195: Industrial relations, Sentencing quirks and Tier One defined

    195: Industrial relations, Sentencing quirks and Tier One defined
    Feb 4 2026
    This episode sees Bishop & Taylor discuss the state of labour relations in the UK construction industry, the rationality of sentences for health & safety breaches and the precise definition of ‘a Tier One contractor’.
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    57 m
  • 194: Graphene, Late payment law and Plant hire profits

    194: Graphene, Late payment law and Plant hire profits
    Jan 21 2026
    With the demise of Versarien, the company behind Cementene, Bishop & Taylor discuss whether graphene admixtures will ever take root in the construction industry. They also talk about the landmark Supreme Court ruling in the case of Providence v Hexagon and a young plant hire company in the northeast making a tidy 40% pre-tax profit margin.
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    46 m
  • 193: Regulating Professions, Procurement and Chiefs of Staff

    193: Regulating Professions, Procurement and Chiefs of Staff
    Jan 7 2026
    The Single Construction Regulator Prospectus dropped shortly before Christmas – with some astonishing content. And the Competition & Markets Authority (CMA) has published the interim report of its civil engineering market study. Much food for thought here for Bishop & Taylor to discuss. And, prompted by a new appointment at Kier, they ponder: what does a chief of staff actually do?
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    53 m
  • 192: Review of the Year 2025

    192: Review of the Year 2025
    Dec 10 2025
    Were you paying attention in 2025 or closing your eyes at the back of the classroom? Bishop & Taylor are here to remind you of some of the UK construction industry news highlights of the year, or maybe tell you what you missed.
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    1 h y 1 m