The Coalition has established several working groups. Below is an update from some of them. If you wish to get involved, please contact us.
Client Engagement Group
Chair: Len Bunton
- Engagement continues with the Communities and Housing Investment Consortium and Advanced Procurement for Universities and Colleges, including a CAP presentation scheduled for a January 2026 training programme.
- A meeting is planned with the Built Environment Futures Assembly, which aims to challenge current industry norms. More info: BEFA
- Ongoing discussions with professional bodies including the Association of Consulting Engineers, Chartered Institute of Building Services Engineers, Society of Façade Engineering, and Constructing Excellence Midlands (CEM), which is seeking board approval to join the Coalition.
- The Building Services Engineers Association has re-signed the Pledge and launched awareness sessions to encourage wider member participation.
- Continued outreach to CECA and other organizations including Civex Consulting, Graham Construction, Browne Jacobson, Quantex Consulting, Peak Commercial, Associated British Ports, SSE, Ferrovial Construction, MACE, and IML.
- CAC was featured on a Barton Legal podcast in September and will be presented at the Adjudication Society Conference in November.
- Synergie Training has signed the Pledge and will develop industry training modules.
- Plans are underway to establish regional groups in Wales, Northern Ireland, and Ireland.
- A pilot presentation on Conflict Avoidance is being finalised for MSc students at Glasgow Caledonian University, with a view to expanding to other UK universities under the theme “Educating Tomorrow’s Construction Industry.”
International Group
Chair Paul Taggart
The International Group met in September 2025. The agenda for the initial meeting contained a host of issues for discussion related to the propagation of the Pledge.
Among these was a draft business plan which is intended to chart the way forward for introducing the Pledge to the international market, including outreach, toolbox and promotional activities.
Thus far, the group is comprised of members based in England, Canada, Turkey, Hong Kong and the USA, all with experience in a variety of jurisdictions across the globe. We want to expand this group as part of the business plan and outreach.
Group members were asked to provide comments based on their experience of what would work where, based on their experience of their operating jurisdictions, considering that one size may not fit all.
The issue of ADR tools was also raised. This will be discussed further in conjunction with the coalition's working group that is looking at updating the CA Toolbox. Next meeting to held in October.
Contracts Group
Chair Anthony Armitage
The Contract Group continues to grow and expand its influence across most disciplines in the construction sector. We now have 27 individual members, comprising lawyers, surveyors, advisers, academics, insurers and other construction professionals.
We are finalising a strategy document setting out our primary function of promoting the adoption of fair, clear and balanced contract conditions for the UK construction industry, and the core group activities that accompany it. This includes the development of a training module on the advantages of contract standardisation and the risks of amendments to standard form contracts.
We are liaising closely with industry organisations like the JCT, FIDIC, World Commerce & Contracting and the Construction Leadership Council to help broadcast our message. | 
