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You may have been reading in the industry news about the growing skills gap in the UK construction industry.  One of our recent blog posts dealt with the benefits to be gained by roofing companies of taking on an apprentice.  There’s an online campaign to encourage more youngsters to study engineering, an initiative dreamed up by the Institute of Civil Engineers (ICE) to promote awareness of the “art and science of engineering”. 

Here at D-marc we strive to bring our readers all the latest news and views from the construction industry and the roofing sector in particular.  In August 2016 the Insurance Act 2015 came into force so today we’re going to take a look at what it means for contractors in the roofing industry and how it’s likely to affect them.  There will be some radical changes on how commercial insurance claims will be treated in the future and ECIC (the specialist insurer for the construction sector) advises all contractors and sub-contractors to familiarise themselves with the new law so that they under