{"id":92187,"date":"2021-04-20T09:27:33","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T08:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=92187"},"modified":"2023-09-27T12:19:52","modified_gmt":"2023-09-27T11:19:52","slug":"cladding-remediation-50bn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/building-control-news\/cladding-remediation-50bn\/92187\/","title":{"rendered":"True cost of cladding remediation works could hit \u00a350bn"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>The government\u2019s \u00a35bn cladding remediation fund \u2018won\u2019t scratch the surface\u2019 for what is required to make every high-rise development EWS1 A1 compliant, says <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colmoretang.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Colmore Tang Construction<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>Colmore Tang Construction has priced remedial projects on over 20 high-rise developments in Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester and The Midlands in the last few months and their analysis suggests a total figure closer to \u00a350bn.<\/p>\n<p>The company found the average <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/building-control-news\/cladding-remediation-funding\/79519\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cost of cladding remediation works<\/a> to be circa \u00a34.65m for buildings above 18m and circa \u00a32m for buildings between 11m and 18m, which they claim is a fair reflection of typical costs across the country.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/assets.publishing.service.gov.uk\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/attachment_data\/file\/945508\/Building_Safety_Data_Release_November_2020.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">latest Building Safety Programme figures from MHCLG<\/a> reveals that around 5,000 buildings over 18m require an EWS1 certificate and may require remedial works, while the same can be said for around 35,000 11-18m buildings.<\/p>\n<p>According to Colmore Tang\u2019s pricing, which reflects their first-hand and recent experience of tender processes for cladding remedial works, this would bring the total to around \u00a325bn for buildings over 18m and \u00a370bn for buildings between 11m and 18m.<\/p>\n<p>Given the lack of information available and taking an optimistic view, the contractor has reduced the theoretical total of \u00a395bn by around half for safe measure, arriving at almost \u00a350bn + VAT\u00a0\u00a0as a realistic upper sum.<\/p>\n<p>Revisions from industry experts and political representatives have put question marks over the government\u2019s arrival at \u00a35bn as a realistic budget, which fails to account for the irrecoverable 20% VAT and which Colmore Tang believes will ultimately be borne by the unfortunate occupiers.<\/p>\n<p>The contractor\u2019s evidence suggests that the initial costing methodology from professionals submitting bids to the Building Safety Fund did not accurately reflect the full scope of works. Colmore Tang claims that initial bid submissions do not fully account for many\u00a0logistical challenges, permits, rising costs of materials and scarcity of resources.<\/p>\n<h3>\u2018A stark difference between costing a project and executing it\u2019<\/h3>\n<p>Steve Underwood, chief operating officer of Colmore Tang, said: \u201cThe bottom line is that the true cost of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/building-control-news\/acm-cladding-remediation\/87846\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">remedial works<\/a> has been severely underestimated and meaningful progress won\u2019t be made until politicians and industry professionals develop a clearer understanding of funding and logistical challenges at hand here.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur estimates are not plucked out of thin air but are based upon real-life scenarios which we see day in, day out. There\u2019s a stark difference between costing a project and actually executing it, which largely explains this discrepancy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re seeing developers and surveyors quoting budgets that are nowhere near where they should be and we\u2019re sleepwalking into a scenario in which that only becomes apparent halfway through the remedial works. That\u2019s bad news for everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Underwood commented: \u201cSuggestions that by simply re-tendering schemes we can reduce costs to original figures are patently unrealistic and quite frankly, dangerous.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe race to the bottom approach to costing produced the poor workmanship, material standards and quality control which led to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/building-control-news\/cladding-remediation-target\/82581\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cladding crisis<\/a> in the first place and we are in danger of things spiralling out of control if we don\u2019t buck up our ideas. That needs to be driven by contractors, developers and surveyors and supported by a government prepared to dip into its pockets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cAnother of the government\u2019s urgent priorities will be to address the insurance dilemma, which has gone under the radar despite it being one of the most onerous stumbling blocks in this crisis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInsurance providers need to be able to offer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/pi-insurance-restrictions\/91256\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Professional Indemnity Insurance<\/a> at commercially attractive rates, to enable this, insurances may have to be underwritten by Government.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That, combined with risk-based analysis on affected buildings, the removal of VAT on the works, fast track training and development for specialist designers and fire engineers, are the first steps we need to take.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government\u2019s \u00a35bn cladding remediation fund \u2018won\u2019t scratch the surface\u2019 for what is required to make every high-rise development EWS1 A1 compliant, says Colmore Tang Construction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[306],"tags":[429,594,897,924,110,276,795,432,671,753],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-92187","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-building-control-news","7":"tag-building-control","8":"tag-building-design","9":"tag-cladding","10":"tag-combustible-materials","11":"tag-fire-safety-management","12":"tag-government","13":"tag-grenfell-tower","14":"tag-health-safety","15":"tag-insurance","16":"tag-safety"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>True cost of cladding remediation works could hit \u00a350bn<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The government\u2019s \u00a35bn cladding remediation fund \u2018won\u2019t scratch the surface\u2019 for what is required to make every high-rise development EWS1 A1 compliant\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/building-control-news\/cladding-remediation-50bn\/92187\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"True cost of cladding remediation works will hit \u00a350bn\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The government\u2019s \u00a35bn cladding remediation fund \u2018won\u2019t scratch the surface\u2019 for what is required to make every high-rise development EWS1 A1 compliant, says Colmore Tang Construction\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/building-control-news\/cladding-remediation-50bn\/92187\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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