Construction faces new certification crisis

By Tom Lowe2022-01-31T07:00:00

Lack of testing facilities means industry may not have time to prepare for the introduction of the UKCA mark in less than a year

You may not have heard of the UK Conformity Assessed (UKCA) mark, a new system for certifying products as safe to put on the UK market. If you have, you may well have dismissed it as an inconvenience which will soon be resolved.

With so many other problems confronting the industry, from rising energy costs to labour shortages, it might not seem like something which warrants immediate concern. But the UKCA mark, which comes into force on 1 January next year, is what chief executives of contractors across the country are now talking about with increasing alarm.

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