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• Altrad swoops for Doosan Babcock

  27-05-2022 09:11 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  French-based scaffolding giant Altrad has struck a deal to buy engineering contractor Doosan Babcock.
  The deal is due complete this summer and will see the transfer of around 4,000 staff to the expanding Altrad scaffolding and industrial services group.
  Just eight months ago, €3bn revenue Altrad snapped up RMD Kwikform in deal reported to be worth around £140m. This saw 1,300 people across core markets of the UK, India, Australia and the UAE join the group.Altrad Group was founded in
  
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• Suspended jail sentences after fatal roof fall

  27-05-2022 08:39 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Two men have been fined and received suspended sentences after a worker fell over five metres through fragile roof panels suffering injuries that subsequently proved fatal.
  Newcastle Crown Court heard how that on 16 November 2015, the worker was carrying out over-cladding work, involving the installation of new roofing material over an existing fragile asbestos cement roof, at an industrial building on West Chirton (South) Industrial Estate, North Shields, Tyne and Wear.
  An HSE investigation fou
  
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• Pagabo names £1.6bn civils framework winners

  27-05-2022 08:30 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  National framework provider Pagabo has selected 48 firms for a new £1.6bn civils and infrastructure framework.
  Buckingham Group, Kier, Galliford Try, Graham, John Sisk and Sir Robert McAlpine are among those making the pool selected civils contractors.
  The firms are spread across four framework lots, which cover value bands of up to £30m and above.Pagabo civils and infrastructure winners
  ACS Civils
  Keltbray Built Environment
  Alun Griffiths (Contractors)
  Kier Infrastructure & Over
  
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