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Leaky Roofs and Leaky Budgets | Episode 115
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- Construction Disrupted
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- May 13, 2026
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- 2354
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Construction Disrupted Episode 115 - Leaky Roofs and Leaky Budgets (13.05.26) in partnership with Adobe Acrobat Studio . Check them out and show them some love. In this episode, we discuss new guidance for competency management, the financial case for transparency in infrastructure, and the ambitious restoration of Blenheim Palace. Let's go! Built environment competency guidance nears publication The Industry Task and Finish Group (ITFG) is set to release new guidance on managing competence in the built environment. This guidance aims to help organizations plan, monitor, and evidence competence, putting the Industry Competence Committee’s 15 principles into practice. Formed under the Building Safety Act 2022, the ICC focuses on improving competence, especially for higher-risk buildings. The guidance, developed collaboratively with over 40 professional bodies, reframes competency as both an individual and organizational responsibility, emphasizing leadership, governance, supervision, procurement, and ongoing development. It’s scalable for small and medium-sized organizations, supporting proportionate arrangements and building safety reforms post-Grenfell. Here's a link to the PDF Space for the ITFG's: Managing Competence in the Built Environment: An industry guide on how to meet the ICC principles Transparency in infrastructure needs a business case and this is how to make it Globally, governments lose a significant portion of infrastructure spending to inefficiency and corruption—up to one-third, according to the IMF. Transparency is more than a governance principle; it’s a tool for improving financial performance. The CoST Infrastructure Transparency Initiative, with the Government Transparency Institute, has developed a methodology to quantify the financial benefits…