Launching newly packaged guidance on millennium compliance for building owners and operators, Construction Minister Nick Raynsford came out strongly in favour of naming and shaming the laggards.
"This is a strategy that works," he said, "and we intend to continue with it."
Government-funded bug buster Action 2000 has already published its initial list of performance by sector, ranking each with blue, amber and red lights based on the state of their preparations. A second, more comprehensive list is to be made public in July.
The industry-funded Taskforce 2000, known for being rather less sanguine about organisations' readiness to cope with the millennium changeover, plans to unveil the results of its own survey of 1000 companies very soon.
The construction industry generally did not come out particularly well in the Action 2000 rankings. Nick Raynsford used the occasion of the Construction Industry Board annual meeting, held June 22nd, to urge more action and to launch the 'Millennium Bug Buildings Check', a fold-out poster summarising potential problems in ten building systems.
FMs are likely to be well beyond this starting point, however, and may find other, more detailed Government publications to be of greater use.
Further information is available at www.bug2000.co.uk
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