Are you up to speed with the forward programme of planned local authority capital works? If not then you need to be, so find out how.

Visibility of work is crucial for everyone in construction to allocate resources, people and simply to be able to plan. It was also a critical element within the No Turning Back recommendations and the actions of the Construction Procurement Task Group.

Constructing Excellence in Wales (CEW) produced the ‘No Turning Back’ report in October 2010. The Minister of Finance subsequently endorsed its recommendations and set up the Construction Procurement Strategy Steering Group under Value Wales to take the report forward. The first of the recommendations was to improve the visibility of the forward  programme in Wales.

CEW already produces an annual all-Wales local authority forward programme and recently ‘piloted’ a sectoral programme of local authority projects  based on the Wales Infrastructure Investment Plan (WIIP) pipeline. As part of the objective of increasing the scope and detail of forward programmes of work in Wales, CEW is pleased to now release a sub-set for Wales of the UK Government’s Construction pipeline. This is essentially the programme for activities that are not devolved to the Welsh Government. It covers five sectors, namely: the Coal Authority, Ministry of Defence, Ministry of Justice, Police Forces and Energy.

The total value for Wales of the 62 projects in the programme is £500m.