Brexit's Impact on UK Construction

This assignment examines the multifaceted effects of Brexit on the UK's construction sector. It delves into the negative consequences of leaving the European Union, such as reduced financial assistance from the European Investment Bank, increased costs for imported labor and materials, and a decline in credit ratings. The analysis further explores potential solutions to mitigate these adverse impacts, including fostering domestic resources, encouraging women and young people to enter the construction field, and joining the European Economic Area (EEA). Recommendations are provided to minimize the negative consequences of Brexit on the UK's construction industry.

BUSINESS
COMMUNICATION

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK A...........................................................................................................................................1
Email.......................................................................................................................................1
TASK B...........................................................................................................................................2
Drafting letter.........................................................................................................................2
TASK C...........................................................................................................................................3
Report on impact of BREXIT on UK's construction industry................................................3
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Analysis............................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
RECOMMENDATIONS.................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Business communication is the process by which sharing of information is accomplished
between internal organisation's people or external parties. The aim of such communication is to
exchange relevant information that are based on commercial benefits. Therefore, business
communications are the vital part of business through which relations are maintained by a firm
with other parties. This communication can be performed with the help of various techniques
like sending e-mails, letters, memos etc. The way of writing these mails or letters have a
considerable impact on reader hence, it is necessary to adopt proper way while writing them. The
present report is based on business communication will entail such methods of making
communication with different parties.
TASK A
Email
To: All Employees
From: Secretory to the mayor of Pinkershire city council
Subject: Regarding workshop on writing skills
Dear employees,
As a secretary to mayor of Pinkershire city council, I am writing the present mail
regarding a workshop that is organised to offer all of you the knowledge about writing skills. The
reason behind organising the workshop is to acknowledge employees about the increasing
embarrassment in the road signs blunder. It is evident that there are increased number of
complaints regarding mistakes in putting road signs at busy roads of city. The instructions
written on sign boards are either wrongly spelled or its giving ambiguous informations. This
needs to be correct at all places as this is making the reputation of city down. Therefore, mayor
has decided to organise this workshop for all of you so that proper knowledge about writing them
can be given. This will help in decreasing such embarrassments due to frequent mistakes
happening in present time. In addition, this will help in improving the current situation along
with improvement in writing skills of all workers involved in this job. Besides this, the whole
workshop will be facilitated by Jane white, who is a renowned face as freelance contributor to
The Daily telegraph, Radio Times and BBC radio 4. The workshop facilitated by such a famous
and knowledgeable personality will bring a great improvement for all people.
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The entire workshop will continue for six weeks at the seminar hall of Central city
council. For attending the workshop all interested people have to enrol their name by filling a
form which is available at city council's office. The form filled in a proper manner should be
submitted to me. The deadline for submitting the duly filled form to attend the seminar is till the
end of this month that is 31st. The seminar will be started from 5th of next month till next six
weeks. Your participation for this workshop will be appreciated. Thanks to all of you for the
support.
Yours sincerely,
Secretory to the mayor
TASK B
Drafting letter
To
Melinda Clifton,
976, Ashbrook drive, Holbeach,
Lincolnshire, PE5 I JK
Subject: Response to application received for retail credit card by Melinda Clifton.
Dear Ma'am,
At first, I am really thankful to you for choosing our company regarding in-house retail
credit card. Nonetheless, I apologize to you, as your request for issuing the retail credit card has
been denied by the organisation. It is evident that you have been a regular and a valuable
customer of our retail firm from a long time. Still, as to the standard process for issuing the credit
card, company follows a modular procedure where customer's past history and present status are
verified. As per the verification process, the firm looks in to past employee records as well so
that the status can be confirmed along with all available credentials. According to the verified
details, it has been found from your employee records that you have been in excessive debt
obligations. Therefore at present, we regret for not processing your request of issuing credit card
following the policies of company.
All the same, we welcome you at our store anytime where you can pay your bills from
cash mode and can take the advantage of available discounts on cash payments. In addition, I
assure that you will not be facing any difficulty in future to apply for credit card once your debt
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obligations have been cleared. Once again, I duly apologise for the inconvenience. I hope this
will not affect your valuable relation with our company and we will have the opportunity to serve
you continuously in future as well.
Thanking you,
Credit officer,
Trump Fashions Ltd.
Lincolnshire, PE5 I JK
TASK C
Report on impact of BREXIT on UK's construction industry
INTRODUCTION
The BREXIT of UK is the most contemporary issue in present time where the entire
nation is making predictions about its results on economy of UK. With this scenario, the director
of JK Roofers Ltd. is also worried as he is unsure about various positive or negative impacts of
BREXIT on his construction company. The organisation has a large number of skilled and semi
skilled workers from Poland and because of BREXIT the work will be seriously affected. The
decision related to BREXIT is still not finally decided yet it is evident that various experts of
different fields have given their views on possible impacts on UK (Pisani-Ferry and et.al., 2016).
In most of the views given by these experts, UK's economy and different sectors will largely
impacted in adverse way. The present report is based on BREXIT and its possible consequences
on various sectors of UK with special reference to construction industry. From the report, it has
been attempted to analyse the scope of affect that will be on construction sector. For this various
books and articles have been read so that more information about this decision can be collected.
Besides this, efforts have been made to find solutions as well so that some useful
recommendations can be made.
Analysis
It has been said from many times that the major problem which is faced by the
construction industry is related with lack of skills (Goodwin and Heath, 2016). But now, this
thinking has been changed because of BREXIT. The recent decision of UK to leave EU has
created a great extent of tensions among the countries of UK. It has also been commented that
due to BREXIT, not only, present, but the future productivity of country will also get suffered.
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By leaving EU, there will be a great crisis in skills management. In present conditions, UK has
employed a large number of employees who use to belong from various countries of Europe
which helps in fulfilling the gap of unavailability of skilled workers in UK. Because of good
relations with EU, the construction industry was at a good position skilled workforce were easily
accessible for the country. Besides this, many engineers were also easily available in the industry
due to which construction industry was on heights (Inglehart and Norris, 2016).
By the economic experts it has been identified that the BREXIT will slow down the
growth of construction sector with a considerable percentage. This will directly affect the
decision of investors as well. It is also predicted that the by the BREXIT, investors will step
back in case of investment as they will also be conscious about possible effects of the decision
on their investments. This will result in dropping of various new projects as well as stoppage on
existing ones. If it is assumed that final decision to leave EU is taken till 2019, afterwards, UK
will have a clear vision about what to do for accelerating the economy. Therefore, there will be
possibilities of improvement in various sectors (Weiler, 2015). Yet it is also sure that the
condition will not be improved to a much extent as in a short period, UK will not be able to
recover the position. Presently, the entire construction industry is largely dependant on labour
force that are imported from EU so that positions of a number of skilled and unskilled workers
can be filled. Besides this, different materials used for construction purpose are also imported
from EU countries like Germany, Italy, Sweden etc. Owing to Brexit, the cost of importing these
materials and cost of labour will go high. Various builders have also committed that this will
result in decline with regards to construction of properties as well as demand of the same (The
Brexit effect: Impact on Construction & Infrastructure. 2016). The European Investment bank
which use to contribute EU members with financial assistance, will also get affected. The future
findings for country will largely get affected due to such decision. Though, some experts also
remark that UK economy will not witness the condition of recession due to BREXIT, yet there
will be a grate deal of economic slowdown. The international credit ratings of country has also
gone down from AAA to AA. Therefore, it has been predicted that the future of the mentioned
industry will also depend on the economy of UK at that time (Arnorsson and Zoega, 2016). The
risk is higher in case of leaving EU for UK as it will also result in various tariff and non tariff
barriers while having international trade. In present time, due to free international trade between
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both countries, the tariffs are not being taken which helps in getting large benefits. Thus, the
decision of BREXIT will have a considerable impact in all sectors of UK negatively.
CONCLUSION
The whole analysis carried in the report helps in knowing assorted impacts that can have
UK in its economy. Through BREXIT, the country will not have any free international trade
relations with EU which will be a great disadvantage for the nation. Apart from this, it is also
seen in the report that JK Roofers which is a construction company will also be impacted by the
decision. The company has more than 60% of workers from Poland which is a EU nation, but
after leaving EU , the country will have to face a great deal of changes in the form of scarcity in
skilled workforce (Rolfe and Hudson-Sharp, 2016). Apart from this, the demands in construction
of houses along with purchasing of properties will also get declined. It is also seen in the report
that buy leaving EU, the economy will get affected as the financial assistance that is acquired by
country through European investment bank will also get restricted. Cost of labour and raw
materials that are imported from various EU countries will also get higher. This has resulted in
fall of index of UK and its credit ratings as well which has gone down from AAA to AA. Thus,
there will be lot of negative changes in UK due to BREXIT.
RECOMMENDATIONS
As per the given scenario, the decision of leaving EU by UK will have a great changes in
economy, investments, different industries for which there are some ways which can be helpful
in reducing the adverse impact of the decision. As it is evident that the country use to import
various workforce like civil engineers and other labours along with materials from EU for
construction industry, one solution can be to develop country's own resources. The country
should focus on enhancing overall development and improvement related to its different
resources like labours, raw materials, investment opportunities etc. For encouraging the
development in workforce in construction, women can be encouraged to come up in this field.
Besides this, students can also be motivated from the school level to grow their interest in same
field so that their professional development can be done. Besides this, various political parties
can have a process of negotiation where diverse outcomes can be discussed related with decision.
UK can also join European economic area (EEA) so that it can have the access of existing level
single markets.
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REFERENCES
Journals and Books
Arnorsson, A. and Zoega, G., 2016. On the causes of Brexit.
Goodwin, M.J. and Heath, O., 2016. The 2016 Referendum, Brexit and the Left Behind: An
Aggregate‐level Analysis of the Result. The Political Quarterly. 87(3). pp. 323-332.
Inglehart, R. and Norris, P., 2016. Trump, Brexit, and the rise of Populism: Economic have-nots
and cultural backlash.
Pisani-Ferry, J. and et.al., 2016. Europe after Brexit: A proposal for a continental partnership.
Bruegel External Publication, Brussels.
Rolfe, H. and Hudson-Sharp, N., 2016. The impact of free movement on the labour market: case
studies of hospitality, food processing and construction.
Weiler, J.H., 2015. Brexit: No Happy Endings; The EJIL Annual Foreword; EJIL on your
iPad!!!; Vital Statistics; ICON. S Conference. European journal of international law
Journal europeen de droit international. 26(1). pp. 1-7.
Online
The Brexit effect: Impact on Construction & Infrastructure. 2016. [Online]. Available through:
<http://www.shepwedd.co.uk/knowledge/brexit-effect-impact-construction-infrastructure>.
[Accessed on 15th December 2016].
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