{"id":3126,"date":"2020-04-06T13:37:30","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T12:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.constructionplantworld.com\/news\/?p=3126"},"modified":"2020-04-06T13:37:30","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T12:37:30","slug":"covid-19-paints-a-dark-picture-for-construction-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.constructionplantworld.com\/news\/2020\/04\/covid-19-paints-a-dark-picture-for-construction-sector\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 paints a dark picture for construction sector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kate Kirby, Construction &amp; Infrastructure Partner at global legal business, DWF, comments on the CIPS\/IHS Markit construction PMI figures for March 2020. She said:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The construction industry is naturally cyclical but the COVID-19 pandemic has taken it by surprise after things had started to improve over the recent months.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For the near future, the market is likely to become more contentious. Contractors will be alive to putting a line in the sand in relation to potential extension of time claims. Employers and contractors may seek to terminate contracts with a view to re-pricing jobs when on the other side of this.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They may also question whether the UK will need to look to a more localised supply chain for construction materials and workforce in the future.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Currently it is very difficult to predict what the future will bring but there will hopefully be brighter times ahead.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dwf.law\/\">www.dwf.law<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kate Kirby, Construction &amp; Infrastructure Partner at global legal business, DWF, comments on the CIPS\/IHS Markit construction PMI figures for <\/p>\n<a class=\"btn-sub-green l-blog-post-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/www.constructionplantworld.com\/news\/2020\/04\/covid-19-paints-a-dark-picture-for-construction-sector\/\" title=\"Read more\">Read more<\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3127,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plant-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.constructionplantworld.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.constructionplantworld.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.constructionplantworld.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.constructionplantworld.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.constructionplantworld.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.constructionplantworld.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3128,"href":"https:\/\/www.constructionplantworld.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3126\/revisions\/3128"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.constructionplantworld.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.constructionplantworld.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.constructionplantworld.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.constructionplantworld.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}